Kabul: The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 per cent so far this year compared with last, the UN said on Wednesday, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track. The senior UN envoy for the country, Jan Kubis, called the trend promising but cautioned that too many civilians were still being caught up in the violence as...
02:32 AM, May 31, 2012
Kabul: The US-led NATO force in Afghanistan killed al-Qaeda's second-highest leader in the country in an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, the coalition said on Tuesday. Sakhr al-Taifi, also known as Mushtaq and Nasim, was responsible for commanding foreign insurgents in Afghanistan and directing attacks against NATO and Afghan forces, the alliance said. He frequently traveled between Afghanistan and Pakistan, carrying out commands from senior al-Qaeda leadership and ferrying in...
04:52 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: New ISI chief Lt Gen Zahir-ul-Islam has put off a scheduled visit to the United States due to "pressing commitments" within Pakistan, the military said on Monday. A spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media arm, said Islam's visit to the US had been "postponed due his pressing commitments here". The spokesman did not give details about the commitments. "There is no other reason for postponing the...
11:26 PM, May 28, 2012
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
New Delhi: Kicking-off work on the long discussed US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India and its new energy partners on Wednesday signed agreements that would pave way for laying of the 1,680-km line. Turkmenistan, which holds more than four per cent of the world's natural gas reserves, signed agreements to sell gas to India and Pakistan through the $7.6 billion pipeline at the Caspian Sea resort of Avaza. Describing signing of...
05:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: Sounding a fresh warning to Pakistan, a key Senate panel has voted to slash American assistance to Islamabad by more than half, approving only USD 1 billion in aid for fiscal 2013 and warned of further cuts unless it reopens NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, which passes the budget for the State Department, yesterday approved only USD 1 billion in assistance to...
01:15 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: India on Wednesday will sign a long-awaited agreement to buy natural gas from Turkmenistan through an ambitious US-based pipeline that will cross Afghanistan and Pakistan. Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy on Tuesday left for Ashgabat via Amritsar for signing of the agreement, official sources said. Turkmenistan -- which holds more than 4 per cent of the world's natural gas reserves -- Afghanistan, Pakistan and India will sign the...
05:17 AM, May 23, 2012
Washington: In a clear snub to Pakistan, US President Barack Obama left off the country from a list of nations he thanked for getting war supplies into Afghanistan, signalling a deepening rift between the two nations. "I want to welcome the presence of (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai, as well as officials from Central Asia and Russia, nations that have an important perspective and that continue to provide critical transit for...
09:31 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, an issue which continues to strain ties between two nations, American media reports said on Monday. 'The New York Times' said a deal to reopen the supply lines fell apart as Obama began talks on ending the NATO alliance's combat role in...
12:58 PM, May 21, 2012
Chicago: NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they charted a path out of a war that has lost public support and strained budgets in Western nations. A NATO summit in Chicago on Monday will formally endorse a US-backed strategy for a gradual exit from Afghanistan, a move aimed at holding together an...
08:57 AM, May 21, 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
London: Troops of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) will stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to conduct counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda after British soldiers leave, a media report said. Sources told the Daily Mail said members of the elite regiment will remain in Helmand province to help Afghan forces weed out the militants. Officials said a "great majority" of British forces would come home but the SAS...
05:58 PM, May 20, 2012
Washington: The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict. By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the "safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and military contractors from Afghanistan." More than 10 years...
08:33 AM, May 18, 2012
Washington: The US on Thursday welcomed India's decision to go-ahead with the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, terming it as a positive step forward. "We think this is a positive step forward on TAPI," a State Department spokesperson said in reaction to the Indian Cabinet decision. "We hope to see further momentum and progress on this regional strategic priority," said the spokesperson. India will sign next week an agreement to...
11:05 PM, May 17, 2012
Washington: Pakistan is preparing to open the crucial NATO supply route to Afghanistan, a top US commander based in Afghanistan has said, noting that there were signs of improvement in bilateral ties. "There have been in the last several days, some very important signals coming out of Islamabad that there is a consideration to re-open the ground lines of communication, and we, frankly, would welcome that, we would applaud that...
08:54 AM, May 17, 2012
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