An unidentified toxic powder was used to contaminate the air in the classrooms by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. ...
11:11 AM, May 24, 2012
Washington: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has ruled out paying Pakistan $ 5,000 per truck carrying vital supplies across its territory for NATO troops in Afghanistan, citing financial challenges faced by America. Panetta headed to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he considers "price-gouging" for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and hoping for a "consensus" among allies over the war effort. Pakistani officials have demanded $...
08:56 PM, May 20, 2012
Kabul: The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. The call came in a three-page statement released on Sunday as heads of state met at the NATO summit in Chicago to talk about the future of Afghanistan. Newly elected French President Francois Hollande has said he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by...
08:09 PM, May 20, 2012
Washington: The US has slapped sanctions on two individuals linked with the Taliban and the Haqqani network based along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, barring American citizens from any dealings with them. Bakht Gul, a Haqqani Network communications official, has been designated for acting for or on behalf of Badruddin Haqqani. Abdul Baqi Bari, a Taliban financier, is being designated for providing financial support for or financial services to, the Taliban, Adam...
12:21 PM, May 18, 2012
Paris: Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in Paris on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan. Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah's Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission in Paris....
12:11 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Cricket has not caught on to any major extent in Afghanistan even 11 years after the Taliban was pushed out of Kabul in 2001. The sports-shy Afghans are still too battle-scarred to laugh their angst away on the pitch. However, literary fiction explores unimaginable possibilities for peace in Afghanistan and escape from the daily acts of subversion. Cricket, the game of friendship, and the tyranny of the Taliban...
01:20 PM, May 14, 2012
Islamabad: Taliban beheads 13 Pakistani soldiers Taliban fighters have killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheading all but one of them and hanging two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials say. The killings in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the dilemma facing the military in dealing with an area used...
10:12 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: The Taliban killed 14 security personnel and beheaded all but one of them before displaying the heads of two soldiers on wooden poles in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, security officials said on Monday. Nine soldiers were beheaded on Sunday when militants overran a security picket in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. The Taliban had been firing at the picket for the past...
03:24 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: A total of 16 Taliban militants, including four commanders, have surrendered in Pakistan's northwest tribal region. The militants, who were part of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, had been involved in terror activities in Kurram Agency, Xinhua reported. Four commanders - Abdullah, Muhammad Rasham, Walid and Rafiqullah - were among those who surrendered on Saturday, said Shahab Ali Shah, a local administrator in Kurram. The militants, whose faces were covered, told...
10:36 AM, May 06, 2012
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to World View with me Suhasini Haider. With the US making it clear it plans to pull out of Afghanistan, the regional fallout is what we're discussing tonight, and with closer India-Afghanistan ties, the big question we're asking - Will Pakistan play spoiler? And we're speaking with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister; Dr. Zalmai Rassoul who was in Delhi, also to the author of Pakistan on the ...
11:59 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's refusal to act against anti-US militant groups mirrors its position on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, ranging from outright denial, to obfuscation and silence. Slowly but surely it appears that Pakistan is obliterating all evidence of Osama bin Laden's presence in that country. The Abbottabad compound where the al Qaeda chief and his family lived for many years has been demolished. The doctor who confirmed Osama's presence in...
09:56 PM, May 02, 2012
Washington: Wary of Indian influence in Afghanistan, Pakistan continues to support insurgent groups and provide terrorist safe havens so as to have its influence inside the war-torn country, the Pentagon told the Congress on Tuesday. Pakistan's selective counter insurgency operations, passive acceptance of insurgent safe havens and its unwillingness to interdict materials such as IEDs components undermine the security of Afghanistan, it said in a Congressionally mandated report. The Pentagon...
06:55 PM, May 01, 2012
With Pakistan also having a significant stake in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan, there are fears in New Delhi that Islamabad may play spoiler in India's growing ties with Afghanistan. Join Suhasini Haidar for a discussion in World View this week on Friday at 10 pm. ...
05:32 PM, May 01, 2012
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne has warned that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan could trigger off a renewed threat from the Taliban for India. ...
11:39 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Bangalore: Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday. "If the American troops and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraw from Afghanistan as planned, 2013-14 are going to be crucial watershed years for India as far as the...
07:59 AM, Apr 29, 2012
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