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ADB Supports Road Network Development in Afghanistan
MANILA: A $400 million multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will contribute to the Afghan Government’s plan to construct about 2,900 kilometers of national roads and repair and maintain 1,500 kilometers of existing paved roads. The MFF, delivered in grant form, will contribute to the Road Network Development Investment Program, [...]
Continue reading...US press lauds Pak response to Mumbai attacks
Sunday, November 30, 2008
WASHINGTON: Praising the Pakistani government’s constructive response to Mumbai terrorist attacks, a US newspaper on Saturday urged the incoming Barack Obama administration to continue encouraging Pakistan and India to cooperate towards peace and security in the region. In an editorial, the US newspaper appreciated the Pakistani leadership’s gesture to send a senior intelligence official to [...]
Continue reading...Indian allegations against Pakistan rejected
Saturday, November 29, 2008
KAMRA CANTT: Chairman Chief Minister Punjab Task Force Shuja Khanzada strongly condemned the Indian propaganda saying the fabricated allegations of Indian Foreign Minister Mr. Pernab Mukhar Jee involving Pakistan in Mumbai terrorist strikes. Shuja Khanzada stated this while talking to the local media persons here at Kamra Cantt on Saturday. He said evidences shown that [...]
Continue reading...Afghanistan not in crisis: UNSC team
Friday, November 28, 2008
KABUL: Afghanistan is not in a security crisis and disillusionment and recriminations about its situation should be avoided, a UN Security Council team said at the end of a three-day assessment tour. There were even reasons for “cautious optimism,” the delegation told reporters before wrapping up a visit which comes as attacks linked to the [...]
Continue reading...Opium trade finances Taliban: UNODC
Friday, November 28, 2008
New York: The opium industry is largely funding the Taliban’s war budget and is a major source of revenue for criminal groups and terrorists in Afghanistan despite becoming less important to the country’s overall economy, according to a United Nations report released in London today. This year has witnessed a decrease in the amount of land [...]
Continue reading...Road to peaceful Afghanistan passes through Kashmir: France
Thursday, November 27, 2008
PARIS: “Peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue could pave way for a better security situation in Afghanistan,” feels the official spokesperson of the French government. The logic behind it is that if Pakistan is free of the tensions on its eastern border it shares with India, then Islamabad could concentrate more on security issues that dog [...]
Continue reading...Terrorist groups step up efforts to destabilize Pakistan
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
WASHINGTON: A senior U.S. military commander has said that terrorist group has stepped up its efforts to destabilize the nuclear-armed South Asian nation, according to. “Iraq is now a rear-guard action on the part of al Qaeda,” said Gen. James Conway, the head of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of [...]
Continue reading...Speakers urge Indo-Pak to change mindset
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
LONDON: The prominent personalities from sub continent and European countries have urged the Indian and Pakistani leadership to change their mindsets and work towards resolution of the vexed Kashmir issue. They said that unless the two countries are prepared to show more flexibility in their substantive positions, the continuation of high levels of mutual distrust [...]
Continue reading...Mullah Asad killed in NATO operation
Sunday, November 23, 2008
KABUL: NATO-led coalition forces killed a senior Taliban commander Mullah Asad in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said in a statement Sunday. Mullah Asad was a senior Taliban operational commander for southern Helmand province, and was killed in an operation, NATO said. It did not say where Asad was killed. Assad was linked to attacks in [...]
Continue reading...Obama’s Victory; Real Change
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Friends of Pakistan (FOP) issued a press release to congratulate president-elect Barack Hussain Obama for his historical victory in presidential race. In a statement released today at Friends of Pakistan’s headquarters here at Cerritos, California said, Barack Obama’s victory is a beginning to a ‘Real Change’ in the United States of America and it [...]
Continue reading...Afghan Returnee Numbers This Year Top 276,000 – UN Refugee Agency
Monday, November 3, 2008
The United Nations refugee agency said today that some 276,700 Afghans returned to their homeland this year through its voluntary repatriation programme, 99 per cent of them coming from neighbouring Pakistan. The remaining 1 per cent of returnees came from Iran and other countries, Ewen MacLeod, Acting Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [...]
Continue reading...Representative Afghan govt to ensure stability, prosperity in region
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Islamabad: Pakistan Economy Watch has said that formation of a representative government in Afghanistan will help millions of people around the world to improve their quality of life. It may support America avoid bankruptcy. US cannot spend $1 billion daily on wars any more Presently America is spending one billion dollars per day on its pointless [...]
Continue reading...Karzai’s brother denies drug trade links
Monday, October 6, 2008
NEW YORK: Assertions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother is involved in the country’s booming heroin trade have U.S. officials worried, according to The New York Times Sunday. Ahmed Wali Karzai, chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council and the president’s brother, denies any ties to Afghan drug traffickers, despite claims to the contrary from some [...]
Continue reading...Security Situation in Afghanistan “Markedly” worse: UN Secretary General
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a change of pace and direction in Afghanistan, where the worsening security situation is hampering the efforts of the Government, the United Nations and international partners to rebuild the strife-torn nation. “Despite the enhanced capabilities of both the Afghan National Army and the international forces, the security [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan deserves int’l community’s support to fight terrorists: Karzai
Monday, September 29, 2008
NEW YORK: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that the new government of Pakistan is on his side in fighting terrorism and it deserves the support of the international community in that struggle. “We should all help President Zardari because he has the right intentions and the right policy for Pakistan and for the region, [...]
Continue reading...Turkey to Host another Afghan - Pak Summit
Saturday, September 27, 2008
NEW YORK: The Foreign Minister, Rangin Dadfa Spanta, has said that his Government has accepted the invitation of the Turkish Government to host another Afghan-Pak summit in Ankara, its Capital. The first such summit meeting hosted by Turkey had resulted in Ankara declaration some one and half years ago. At a press conference in Washington, Spanta [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan military fires at NATO choppers: ISAF
Thursday, September 25, 2008
KABUL: Pakistani troops fired at NATO-led helicopters operating in eastern Afghanistan, the international Security Assistance force said, adding that there was no damage or casualties. Amid mounting tensions between Islamabad and foreign forces in Afghanistan over a series of incursions, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stressed that the helicopters had not crossed into Pakistani [...]
Continue reading...Farahi still missing; Govt. trying to ensure safe recovery of Farahi
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
PESHAWAR: The whereabouts of Afghan ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi, abducted on Tuesday by some unidentified gunmen, remained unknown as no group has yet claimed the responsibility of his kidnap. As statements of Pakistan and Afghanistan’s senior officials reveal, hunt is on for immediate recovery of Abdul Khaliq. Farahi was working as Consul General [...]
Continue reading...Afghan Diplomat abducted in Peshawar; Afghan Govt proposed BCF
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen abducted Afghanistan’s consul general Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Peshawar to an unknown place and his driver was killed in a brazen ambush on Monday. Six attackers in a black car followed the vehicle of Abdul Khaliq Farahi in Phase III of Hayatabad; his residence, forced it to pull over and shot his [...]
Continue reading...It’s not how we think it is how the US-led NATO forces think about War in Afghanistan
Monday, September 22, 2008
Question is how we think and how our allies in US-led NATO powers think about ongoing war in Afghanistan; we think that we have to combat the menace of talibanisation in the name of global war against terrorism. The US led NATO forces which has spent millions of Dollars in sucking Soviet Union Afghanistan initially [...]
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