VOA News August 15, 2016 Zabihullah Ghazi JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan will restart a polio vaccination drive in the coming days for thousands of children in remote eastern regions previously controlled by the Islamic State, provincial authorities say. Polio vaccinations have been on hold for more than 18 months because health workers were not able to
Michael Hughes: The United States is pivoting towards New Delhi at the expense of Islamabad vis-à-vis the rivals’ proxy war inside Afghanistan. One could argue that given Pakistan is unlikely to ever abandon terrorism as a foreign policy tool, the U.S. and India might as well collaborate on containment. Yet Pakistan, seeing Indian influence in Kabul
VOA News Ayaz Gul August 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Local officials and foreign military commanders in Afghanistan have played down concerns Islamic State is expanding activities beyond its traditional strongholds in the east. They insist the recent killing of the local leader of IS in an American drone strike and gains by Afghan forces against the
Press TV August 15, 2016 At least two people have been injured in a bomb explosion near the US embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, police say. The blast occurred at a main square near the embassy and the country’s Supreme Court on Monday. Police said the blast was caused by a magnetic bomb attached to a military
Press TV August 14, 2016 Nearly a dozen Afghan police officers have been killed and several others injured in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants in the country’s troubled north and east, local security officials say. In the first incident, at least two police officers were killed and nine others were wounded in
Forbes: Important but overlooked news this week: the U.S. command in Afghanistan has asked India to step up military aid to Afghan forces. India provided four attack helicopters to the Afghan military in Dec. 2015; the U.S. and the Afghans want more, as well as spare parts for Russian-made military equipment, to be used in part
VOA News August 13, 2016 Hasib Danish Alikozai A top Pakistani official is expressing optimism about restarting the stalled Afghan peace talks, but there are no signs that Kabul is ready to rejoin the process. Sartaj Aziz, the foreign policy adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, told reporters on Friday that the peace talks,
KABUL, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — The ongoing militancy and violent incidents have claimed the lives of at least four civilians including three children and injured four others in a single day on Saturday, officials said. In the latest bloody incident, a rocket allegedly fired by Taliban militants struck a house in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the
VOA News August 13, 2016 Pakistani officials say the crew members of a Pakistani helicopter that crash landed in Afghanistan earlier this month have been released by their captors and the crew has returned home safely. A Foreign Ministry statement Saturday said “The six-member crew of Punjab government helicopter that went missing in Afghanistan on
VOA News Ayaz Gul August 12, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is calling on Afghanistan to help create a formal intelligence-sharing deal so that the countries can better address allegations that their spy agencies are involved with anti-state violence on both sides of their shared border. Pakistani prime minister’s foreign policy advisor, Sartaj Aziz, renewed the call