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
Kabul: Insurgents wearing Afghan army uniforms launched a suicide attack and stormed a courthouse on Wednesday in a failed bid to free Taliban inmates, killing at least 44 people, half of them shot in the basement. Nine attackers were killed. The attack - one of the deadliest in the more than 11-year-old war - began about 8:30 am when nine men wearing suicide vests drove into the capital of Farah...
07:29 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has opened a school in Afghanistan through her foundation The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict. The 37-year-old actress has funded the girls only educational establishment, which caters to between 200 and 300 students, just outside of Kabul and hopes it will be the first of many schools she sets up, reported E! online. ...
07:38 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Senior US military officials said an Afghan teenager had killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck. Two officials said on Monday that Seargent Michael Cable, 26, was guarding a meeting of Afghan and US officials in Nangarhar province when the stabbing occurred. ...
07:33 PM, Apr 01, 2013
President Hamid Karzai held talks with Qatari leaders on Sunday, official media reported, on a visit the Kabul government has said would seek to explore the possibility of talks with Taliban insurgents on ending Afghanistan's war. ...
06:30 AM, Apr 01, 2013
US special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic region of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan commandos on Saturday, a senior US commander said. ...
06:34 PM, Mar 30, 2013
German Police have arrested a 28-year-old Pakistani man on suspicion of spying on high-tech military data, the office of the federal public prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday. ...
02:27 AM, Mar 29, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a show of unity on Monday, shortly after the US military ceded control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan, ending a longstanding irritant in relations between the two countries. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 26, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Monday to see President Hamid Karzai amid concerns the Afghan President may be jeopardising progress in the war against extremism with his anti-American rhetoric. ...
06:46 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The MoU allows Afghanistan players to train at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore and also take part in Pakistan's domestic events. ...
10:44 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Security forces in the Afghan capital have defused a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tonnes of explosives, the biggest of its kind discovered in the country, the spy agency said on Friday amid heightened security. Intelligence forces discovered the explosives in eastern Kabul, wired and ready for detonation, security officials said. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf while speaking on the increase in militancy in Kashmir linked it to the pull-out of coalition forces from Afghanistan. In an interview to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar, Musharraf said the pull out's consequences are going to spill over into Pakistan and India. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 15, 2013
