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Speakers urge Indo-Pak to change mindset
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 [...]
Continue reading...Is Pakistan the next neocon target?
Monday, September 22, 2008
written by Aijaz Zaka Syed BACK home in the subcontinent, they say you should always stay away from the cops: Their friendship as well as adversity is bad for one’s health. I am reminded of the advice as the world’s chief cop bombs its allies and friends in Pakistan. With friends like these, do you really [...]
Continue reading...Security for Ordinary Afghans Deteriorating: Report
Monday, September 22, 2008
KABUL: Human Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium (HRRAC) said in its report released on Sunday that majority of Afghans believe the security situation is getting worse since 2004. “Sixty three percent of Afghans believe that the security situation in their communities has worsened since 2004,” the report said. In the similar research HRRAC conducted in 2004, [...]
Continue reading...World condemned Islamabad blast
Sunday, September 21, 2008
World leaders have condemned the suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 60 people and several dozens injured. EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, condemned Sunday in the “strongest possible terms the despicable bomb attack” in which 60 people were killed and dozens more injured in front of the [...]
Continue reading...Durand Line hottest spot on earth: Arab daily AL-Hayat
Saturday, September 20, 2008
LONDON: One of the most explosive spots on earth today is the so-called Durand Line, the 2,640 kilometre border, much of it in harsh mountain country, between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is where the United States and its NATO allies are battling the Taliban — and are facing the possibility of military defeat. Of all the [...]
Continue reading...US cost over Iraq, Afghanistan wars reaches $752 b
Saturday, September 20, 2008
WASHINGTON: The direct costs of the seven-year “war on terror”, which includes operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have reached US$752 billion, if the current year’s appropriation of $188 billion is included, according to the non-partisan US Congressional Budget Office. With the situation in Afghanistan further than ever from being settled, the US response, much like [...]
Continue reading...US cannot win war in Afghanistan by taking it into Pakistan
Saturday, September 20, 2008
LONDON: America will not win the war in Afghanistan by taking it across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas. The gloom of the coalition forces about the war in Afghanistan tends to be seasonal. The hopes of spring are dented by a summer of roadside explosions, suicide-bombings and ambushes. But this autumn they have nearly [...]
Continue reading...U.S. Rep. Urges Congress to Bring War Criminal Bush to Justice
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
(AdeebPress.com) - U.S. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has vigorously urged the United States Congress to impeach Israeli-ZioCon war criminal George W. Bush - who is fraudulently masquerading as a White-American, compassionate-conservative-Christian, dogmatic-Republican and who is also known as an “infamous mass murderer, barbarous serial killer, corrupt international terrorist, blood-thirsty butcher of millions of Arabs [...]
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