MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 (Xinhua)– At least 18 army personnel were wounded in a blast as a bomb targeted an Afghan army bus in the country’s northern province of Balkh on Monday morning, police said. “The stricken minibus was running near army Corps 209 Shaheen in southwestern outskirts of provincial capital. The blast caused 18
Tolo News: Balkh police chief Sayed Kamal Sadat on Tuesday said Pakistani military officers were behind the Indian consulate attack in Mazar-e-Sharif earlier this month. He said the attackers, officers from across the border, were well-trained military men who fought Afghan security forces in the 25-hour siege. “We saw with our own eyes and I can say 99
Khaama Press: Indian ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha has said that the terrorist attack on India’s consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif would not deter ties between New Delhi and Kabul. “Such attacks would further strengthen ties between the two countries,” he told reporters during a visit to the consulate that was under attack for about 25 hours. Click
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say security forces have killed all four heavily armed assailants who have been holed up since Sunday night in a building near India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told VOA at least one security personnel
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say that several heavily-armed assailants were still holed up in a building just meters from India’s consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and a gunfight fight was underway with national security forces. The siege in the Balkh province began Sunday night when a group of
VOA News / January 3, 2016 Unidentified militants attempted to storm the Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sunday as gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the surrounding area, a spokesman for the local governor told VOA. Munir Ahmad Farhad said the gunmen fired the rockets from a building across the street from