KABUL: U.S. airstrikes have killed a suspected “Taliban chief for Kunduz province” in northern Afghanistan, a day after the provincial capital Kunduz city was captured by the insurgent group, Afghan intelligence agency claimed Wednesday. The Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) said in a statement that the Tuesday night airstrike targeted a group of suspected militants...
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US Special Forces engage Taliban in fighting at Kunduz airport
KABUL: US Special Forces battled the Taliban forces that laid siege to the main airport in Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan. The fighting at the airport started on Sept. 29, just one day after the Taliban seized control of the city. The engagement between Coalition forces belonging to Operation Resolute Support and Taliban fighters was...
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Occupation of Afghan territory by any group unacceptable: Aizaz Chaudhry
NEW YORK: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said on Wednesday that the occupation of a part of Afghanistan by any group was “unacceptable” to Pakistan. “Afghanistan is being run by a democratically elected and legitimate government and occupation of its territory by any group is unacceptable,” the top diplomat told reporters at a news briefing...
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NATO Strike in Afghanistan Kill Scores of People
The recent NATO strike leaves more than 90 dead whereas 40 civilians are also among those dead. The NATO jet fighters opened fire at the fuel tankers that were hijacked by Taliban. The sources said that in northern Afghanistan, NATO instigated an air attack against two fuel tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban during the midnight...
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Brutal Killing of Col. (R) Shuja Khanzada
Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada, Punjab’s Interior Minister, didn’t know from Adams what fate had in store for him on August 16, 2015. Shuja Khanzada became target of two heartless suicide bombers while addressing a meeting of local people, at his hometown in Attock, who had come to express their condolences on the death of his...
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Taliban and Anti-Taliban by Farhat Taj: Myth and Reality
People across the globe do question about our history, society, culture and country, but sadly, we do not answer them—may be out of our lack of understanding or just out of inefficiency and lethargy. Our inability to respond the world in a sophisticated and logical way empowers the global and regional powers to misinform the...
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Stop aggression
General Sher Muhammad Karimi, chief of staff of the Afghan National Army, said in an interview that war with Taliban could be “over in weeks” with Pakistan’s help. On talking about Pakistan and Taliban he said, “The leadership of Taliban is in Pakistan. So Pakistan should to take action and convince them for dialogue”. It...
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Taliban claim attack on helicopter carrying diplomats
A helicopter carrying diplomats crashed Friday in Gilgit-Baltistan. The Taliban claimed the attack which targeted the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. They targeted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed, Friday, May 8, shooting down the helicopter MI-17 carrying diplomats that crashed in a village very remote north-east. Six people, two pilots and four foreigners, including...
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470 Parents jailed in Pakistan for refusing polio vaccine
More than 470 relatives were arrested in Pakistan on March 2, for refusing to vaccinate their children against polio, according to local officials. “There is no more mercy; we decided to treat the refusal with an iron hand. Anyone who refuses the vaccine will be sent to prison,” said Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, capital of the province...
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The Schoolgirl and The Taliban
A friend of mine Yasmeen Ali, a lawyer and Professor at Beaconhouse University in Pakistan has recently had her book published “A Comparative Analysis of Media & Media Laws in Pakistan”. I noticed an excerpt on her Facebook page taken from the chapter Social Responsibility of the Media which reads as follows : “Media must...