Kabul: A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. Forty people were wounded in the blast at around 8 am (0330 GMT) during the morning rush-hour. It caused heavy damage to mud-built houses in the vicinity. The...
06:44 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Ahead of its President's visit here from May 20, Afghanistan on Thursday said it was looking for enhanced defence cooperation with India, from where it was expecting supply of lethal and non-lethal military equipment. Afghan President Hamid Karzai will visit India on May 20-22 during which he will apprise the Indian leadership of the recent developments in the war-torn country, Afghanistan Ambassador to India Shaida M Abdali told...
06:50 PM, May 16, 2013
Kabul: Two members of Afghanistan's NATO-led force were killed on Thursday when a suicide car bomber attacked their two-car convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the force said in a statement. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said four ISAF civilian contractors were also among the dead but it did not provide information on their nationalities. ...
05:10 PM, May 16, 2013
Kabul: An Afghan official says a bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle has ripped through a crowded bazaar in a remote region of the southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding seven. Omer Zawak, the spokesman for the provincial governor, says the explosion occurred today at the market in the village of Safar. Safar is located 70 kilometers (42 miles) from the district centre of...
03:07 PM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: A 27-year-old man from Mumbai, Hamid Ansari, who went to Afghanistan in November 2012 to find a job, has gone missing. Ansari's family fears he might have crossed into Pakistan. "He promised to return on 12th, I waited till the 15th. Then I got Kabul airport's number from the Internet and called them to ask if my son's name was in the passenger list. There was no such passenger,"...
08:58 AM, May 05, 2013
Tehran: India and Iran on Friday discussed the developing situation in Afghanistan and agreed to remain in regular contact. The two sides also inked three MoUs during the 17th meeting of the Iran-India Joint Economic Commission which is being held here on May 3-5. Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his Iranian counterpart Ali-Akbar Salehi also discussed the Chabahar port project. Describing Iran as one of India's biggest...
11:43 PM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Thursday issued orders for sealing the border with Afghanistan during the General Election on May 11 in order to maintain peace during the polling. The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ordered the provincial Home Department to seal the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham to "avert the entry of unwanted persons for maintenance of peace" during the elections, officials said. Authorities also instructed the Additional Chief Secretary of the restive...
04:55 PM, May 02, 2013
Washington: A panel in the United States has asked the government to continue its visa ban on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The same report has deemed Pakistan the world's worst violator of religious freedom. The report demanded that Pakistan be designated a country of particular concern. The report has also cited Afghanistan as being very poor for dissenting Sunni Muslims, Shias, Sikhs, Hindus and Christians. It also says that...
12:37 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the richter scale hit Afghanistan on Wednesday. Tremors were also felt in parts of Pakistan including Lahore, Abbotabad, Sargodha, Islamabad, Kasur, Peshawar, Swat and Parachinar as well as in North India including New Delhi and Kashmir. There were no initial reports of any damages. While the Pakistan Met department put the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.2, the USGS put its magnitude at...
03:17 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kabul: A helicopter owned by an Afghan company has made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan, and the terrorists took all nine people who were aboard hostage. A district administrator in the area says the helicopter landed on Sunday afternoon in strong winds and rain in a village of Logar province, southeast of Kabul and about 30 kilometres from the Pakistan border. Hamidullah Hamid said on...
11:30 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Kabul: Insurgents killed six police officers at a checkpoint and a suicide bomber killed three civilians at a shopping bazaar in separate attacks on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while an independent security group warned 2013 is on track to be one of the most violent years of the war. April already has been the deadliest month of 2013 for security forces and Afghan and foreign civilians as the US and...
01:14 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Dubai: With an aim to develop more competitive teams among its full, associate/affiliate members, the ICC has allocated USD 422,000 for the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) from the its Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (TAPP). It was decided during the second of the four board meetings of the ICC and IDI (ICC Development International, the commercial arm of the cricket's governing body) held here on April 16 and 17. "The...
08:00 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Will the Boston Marathon bomb blasts lead the US to rethink its Afghan disengagement programme or will it concentrate on West Asia? Security analyst and senior journalist Praveen Swami joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What is the retaliatory action expected from the administration in USA and what additional security plans will come on scene? Asked by: sundar1950in A. Hi! I think its a little early...
06:30 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: India and China are expected to discuss the situation in Afghanistan later this month. The talks come at a time when assessments show a worst case scenario for India in Afghanistan. In a few weeks India will have a new ambassador in Kabul. AK Sinha takes over at a time when intelligence assessments have warned of a worst case scenario for India that could well result in closure...
10:21 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a 40 per cent increase in American aid to Pakistan, amounting to $ 1.4 billion, as part of his $ 3.77 trillion budget that focuses on new job creation and economic growth. Obama among other things proposed to increase the US aid to Pakistan under overseas contingency operations to $ 1.4 billion for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2013, an increase...
02:49 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: India wants to be part of the solution and not part of the problem in Afghanistan though there are some quarters who view New Delhi as the latter, said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday. "India has not and must not be a bystander and aloof of what is happening in Afghanistan," Khurshid said, giving a talk on the release of a report on Afghanistan. "What is...
06:40 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of recent scams in defence purchases, Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday said the armed forces should have "transparency" in their functioning. Inaugurating the bi-annual Army Commanders' Conference in Delhi, he expressed concern over the regional security situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and expressed confidence that the armed forces would be prepared to meet the challenges. "You should work towards having transparency in your functioning,"...
03:30 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan: The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after US troops complete their combat mission in 2014, the top US military officer said Sunday. In an Associated Press interview at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, Army Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is cautiously...
10:43 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Jammu: The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir will have to guard against the fallout of strategic changes in the region. "We will have to guard against the fallout of strategic changes in the region that can come in the aftermath of pull out of American forces from Afghanistan," PDP patriarch Mufti Mohammad Sayeed told party workers at Vijaypur, 30-km from Jammu. He, however, said Kashmir can...
01:43 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Hind Kush region on Thursday. The coordinates of epicentre were 36.47 degrees North, 71.12 degrees East. According to USGS reports, the tremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and other areas. Tremors were also felt in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The tremor, which lasted for around 10 seconds, was recorded at 12:02 pm (IST), an official of...
12:38 PM, Apr 04, 2013
