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Posted in Afghanistan, Articles, USA on May 4th, 2012
Tweet Foreseeable Future of Afghanistan after US-Afghan Strategic Pact , By signing a new pact outlining a future US advisory role in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has signalled the beginning of the end of the decade-long war against terror in that country.
Posted in Afghanistan, International Issues, News on Mar 9th, 2012
Tweet Karzai under fire on Afghan women’s rights.President Hamid Karzai’s US-backed government is under fire this International Women’s Day, accused of selling out on Afghan women’s rights as it tries to woo the Taliban into peace talks.
Posted in Afghanistan, News, Pakistan, Terrorism on Mar 7th, 2012
Tweet Bomb blast kills four on Afghan-Pakistan border: Police.Four civilians were killed and 10 injured Wednesday when a remotely controlled motorbike bomb exploded in an Afghan town on the border with Pakistan, police said.
Posted in Afghanistan, art on Mar 7th, 2012
Tweet Afghan artists use graffiti to depict war, oppression.Encased in a head-to-toe burqa, the image depicts a distraught woman slumped on a cement stairwell, the work of Afghanistan’s first street artists who use graffiti to chronicle violence and oppression.
Posted in Afghanistan, USA on Mar 3rd, 2012
Tweet Burning of Holy Quran By US Forces in Afghanistan Apology is not Enough , The burning of the Muslim holy book by U.S. forces at an Afghan prison is unforgivable, a powerful council of Muslim scholars said Friday. It demanded that foreign forces turn over control of prisoners to Afghanistan’s government.
Posted in Afghanistan, general-information, International Issues, USA on Mar 1st, 2012
Tweet Zawahiri calls US talks with Taliban, defence cuts a show of weakness.Al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said US decisions to cut its defence budget and engage with the Afghan Taliban were signals of a decline in Washington’s power, in a message posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
Posted in Afghanistan, general-information, News on Feb 27th, 2012
Tweet NATO probes food after Taliban poison claim.The Taliban claimed Monday it was behind the poisoning of coalition troops’ food in eastern Afghanistan as Nato launched an investigation after “traces of bleach” were found in fruit and coffee.
Posted in Afghanistan, USA on Feb 25th, 2012
Tweet Two American Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan A Colonel and A Major, Two Americans who were shot dead on Saturday inside the Interior Ministry in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul are believed to be acolonel and a major in the US military, Afghan security sources told Reuters.
Posted in Afghanistan, USA on Feb 22nd, 2012
Tweet Holly Quran Burning Incident in Afganistan by NATO and Bloody Protests, Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country.
Posted in Afghanistan, News, Pakistan on Feb 18th, 2012
Tweet Karzai Demands Mullah Omer From Pakistan to Ruin Talks, Deliver Mullah Omar? If that is the expectation, then there’s no reality check then. Then they’re not only unrealistic, but preposterous.”
Posted in Afghanistan on Feb 17th, 2012
Tweet The Taliban rejected a claim Thursday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that it was taking part in secret talks with the Afghan government. “The Islamic Emirate strongly rejects Karzai’s remarks and adds that the Islamic Emirate has never met with the representatives of the powerless Kabul administration, and has made no decision to hold [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, general-information, International Issues, Latest Issues, Military on Feb 3rd, 2012
Tweet NATO hopes Afghan forces take lead in 2013.Nato allies voiced hope Thursday that Afghan forces can take the lead across the country next year, with foreign troops in a backup role, as they seek to wind down a war that has dragged on for a decade.
Posted in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, International Issues, News on Jan 31st, 2012
Tweet In Afghanistan, France upends NATO’s exit strategy.France’s decision to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned deals a blow to the US-led war effort and threatens to trigger a “rush to the exits” by other Nato members, experts said Monday.
Posted in Afghanistan, USA on Jan 22nd, 2012
Tweet Stoppage in NATO Supplies Hurting Badly US Bases Running Short of Food Items See Picture
Posted in Afghanistan, International Issues, USA on Jan 20th, 2012
Tweet In southern Afghanistan US helicopter crash Six foreign soldiers were killed on Thursday, a spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force said.
Posted in Afghanistan, News, Pakistan, Terrorism on Jan 15th, 2012
Tweet Hakimullah Mehsud killed – Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader Hakimullah Mehsud reportedly killed in US drone attack on January 12.
Posted in Afghanistan on Jan 4th, 2012
Afghanistan peace process,taliban set to open office in qatar.Taliban insurgents announced a major policy shift on Tuesday, dropping their insistence on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan as a precondition for possible peace talks.
Posted in Afghanistan, USA on Dec 24th, 2011
The US-Taliban peace deal, that was earlier reported to have reached a critical juncture, has “ultimately collapsed after Afghan President Hamid Karzai balked at its terms,” The Washington Post (WP) reported
Posted in Afghanistan, News, USA on Dec 18th, 2011
Taliban Ready to Open Office in Any Islamic Country for Negotiations with Afghanistan and USA, The Taliban are willing to open an office in an Islamic country, a step towards holding face-to-face peace talks with Afghanistan, a member of the Afghan government’s team of negotiators with the group said on Sunday.
Posted in Afghanistan, Pakistan, USA on Dec 13th, 2011
War Of Afghanistan can not be won without Pakistan US Senator , US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that it was important to reach out to Pakistan if the United States wants to dismantle Afghan militant havens.
Posted in Afghanistan on Dec 6th, 2011
Bonn Conference and Its Results , With key players missing, an international conference on Afghanistan’s future in the German city of Bonn wasn’t expected to produce much. And the event lived up to its billing.
Posted in Afghanistan on Dec 4th, 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan, which is boycotting the international Bonn conference on Afghanistan, of sabotaging all negotiations with the Taliban.
Posted in Afghanistan on Dec 3rd, 2011
Kabul Believes Pakistan Decision of Not Participating in Bonn Conference Will have No Effect, As the parliamentary committee on national security endorsed on Friday the federal cabinet’s decision of not attending the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Islamabad’s boycott would have no negative impact, Tolonews reported.
Posted in Afghanistan on Dec 2nd, 2011
Bomb exploded at gate of a NATO base in Afghanistan Killing 1 nad Injuring 70
Posted in Afghanistan on Nov 29th, 2011
India Wins Rights for Iron Exploration of Biggest Afghan Reserves, A consortium of Indian companies has won the rights to develop Afghanistan’s largest iron ore deposits, a mining ministry official said Tuesday, underscoring growing ties between the two countries.