VOA News / October 3, 2017 Carla Babb WASHINGTON — Afghanistan security forces are fully engaged in offensive combat operations for the first time in their war against al-Qaida and Taliban militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. “For the first time in 16 years, we have all six Afghan army corps on the offensive
VOA News October 1, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, held “candid and “constructive” talks with Afghan leaders on bilateral relations and ways to enhance mutual cooperation to fight terrorism. Accompanied by the chief of Pakistani spy agency, ISI, the general met Sunday with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 2, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Spy chiefs of Pakistan and Afghanistan have held official talks in Kabul on bilateral security and counterterrorism cooperation. Director General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar, traveled to the Afghan capital Tuesday in a bid to ease tensions between security establishments of the
Tolo News: Taliban militants are pushing to take control of Dangam district in Kunar in order to reach the provincial capital Asadabad and are doing so with the help of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Kunar Police Chief Juma Gul Himmat told TOLOnews. Click here to read more (external link). Related Helmand suicide bomber claims he was trained
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 12, 2016 Pakistan has named a new head of its military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). The Pakistani military said in a statement on December 11 that Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar was appointed as director-general of the ISI, replacing Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar. The move comes two weeks after the chief
DailyO: A recent conference on regional security issues in the western Afghanistan town of Herat was catalysed by an angry exchange between US political-military analyst on South Asia Christine Fair and retired Brigadier Saad Mohammed from Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, on the nature of the Pakistan army, which Fair variously characterised as being a “hyena” and
Tolo News: On the 20th anniversary of the death of former Afghan president Dr. Najibullah Ahmadzai, an Afghan research center on Monday claimed the former leader was killed based on an intelligence plan, drafted by regional countries and adopted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI). Deputy chief of Afghanistan’s Strategic and Scientific Research Center, Aimal Liyan,
Tolo News: Thousands of Afghan refugees in Khost province, who recently returned from north Waziristan, have said that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency (ISI) has been issuing false propaganda against Afghanistan and its people. According to one return refugee, Amir Khan: “There was propaganda in Pakistan that said the Afghan people and their government are infidels and Jihad
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
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 15, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan on Friday rejected as “preposterous” allegations that its spy agency had links with the Haqqani network of militants and played a role in the 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan. A newly declassified U.S. document says an officer of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI,