Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the centre of the Afghan capital ended on Monday after 18 hours of gunfire. ...
11:15 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul ended on Monday after 18 hours of intense gunfire, rocket attacks and explosions, police and government officials said. Battles which broke out at mid-day on Sunday gripped the capital's central districts through the night, with explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and surrounding streets. "The latest information we have about the Afghan Parliament...
09:30 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan capital awoke to more explosions and heavy gunfire in the heart of the city and near the nation's parliamentary building. This a day after militants launched an unprecedented attack using rockets and suicide bombers in the Afghan capital and 3 other provinces. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the strikes. Reports said that Afghan security forces have killed at least 19 militants. All Indian embassy staff members...
07:39 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban said they launched a spring offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattling the city. The assault, one of the most serious on the capital since US-backed Afghan forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001, highlighted the ability of militants to strike the heavily guarded diplomatic zone even...
10:56 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan Taliban vowed to launch similar attacks to those that engulfed the Afghan capital of Kabul and several provinces on Sunday. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters that the assaults were in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Quran at a NATO base, the killing of 17 Afghan civilians for which a US soldier has been charged as well as for videos apparently showing US Marines...
10:29 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Kabul: Several Afghan lawmakers fought back against Taliban insurgents who waged a series of attacks across the Afghan capital including against the parliament, MPs said on Sunday. "I'm the representative of my people and I have to defend them," Kandahar lawmaker Naeem Hameedzai Lalai told Reuters. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had told Reuters that the attacks had been planned for months. ...
07:26 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Taliban suicide attackers struck Kabul, with several explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave as the militants took over a hotel and tried to enter parliament. ...
05:33 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Kabul: Militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital on Sunday, with blasts and gunfire rocking three neighbourhoods that are home to Afghan government buildings, Western embassies and NATO bases. Latest reports: Attacks were retaliation for Quran burnings, US marine urination video and Kandahar shooting massacre, said Taliban spokesman. The Afghan Taliban issued a new statement which said that the group attacked President Hamid Karzai's presidential palace...
03:25 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Islamabad: Underlining that it has never broken its relations with US, Pakistan on Thursday said it wants "normal and mutually beneficial" ties with Washington but the shape of future bilateral relationship will be decided by an ongoing parliamentary review ordered by the government. "There is a mutual desire to have normal and mutually beneficial relations. We never broke our relations with the US. There is a problem and both sides...
06:25 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Experts in India are of the view that America has acted in its own interest by putting bounty on Hafiz Saeed. ...
08:05 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Islamabad: Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief for whom the US has announced a bounty of $10 million, said Tuesday this was because he had opposing the re-opening of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, a media report said. Saeed told the Al Jazeera TV channel the US move had come as he had been organising rallies against the re-opening of supply lines to NATO forces...
03:53 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad/Washington: The US and Pakistan on Wednesday resumed their high-level military contacts for the first time since a deadly cross-border NATO strike in the country's restive tribal belt killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year. The meeting between Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and the top US commander in the region, Gen James Mattis, and the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen took place in Islamabad, a day...
02:16 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New York: The US military has decided that none of its soldiers involved in a NATO airstrike in November last year that had killed 24 Pakistani soldiers will face disciplinary charges, an incident that had plunged the bilateral ties to a new low. A second inquiry to determine whether any American military personnel should be held accountable for the incident concluded that the Americans fired in self-defence and should not...
11:16 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Miranshah: The Pakistan Taliban will attack lawmakers if they decide to re-open NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, the militant group's spokesman said on Sunday, a threat likely to complicate efforts to mend severely strained relations between the United States and Pakistan. "If the parliament decides to restore NATO supplies, we will attack parliamentarians and their overlords," Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told Reuters. The US needs Pakistani...
03:07 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: The Taliban have threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan closed its Afghan border crossings to NATO in November in retaliation for American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan's parliament is scheduled to begin debate on Monday on a revised relationship with the US that could lead...
07:39 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Seattle: Two US senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. Troubled by reports of the practice, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said they are calling on the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch investigations. The senators are sending...
07:25 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama would meet Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in South Korea next week, the White House said on Friday. The meeting scheduled for March 27 is the highest level interaction between the leaders of the two countries after the November 26 incident last year in which 24 Pak soldiers were killed due to a NATO cross border...
12:14 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Mali: Soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. The whereabouts of the country's 63-year-old president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was just one month away from stepping down after a decade in office, could not be confirmed. The soldier heading the group of putschists said...
05:19 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Washington: The Taliban's suspension of preliminary peace talks is a tactical move reflecting internal tensions, US officials believe, rather than a definitive halt to discussions the White House hopes will bring a peaceful end to the war in Afghanistan. US officials had been bracing themselves for backlash from the militant group following a string of public setbacks that have scandalized and angered Afghans, notably US soldiers' burning of copies of...
01:06 AM, Mar 23, 2012
