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...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
KABUL: UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband held a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a surprise visit to the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday. According to sources of British embassy, Miliband arrived in Afghanistan on Monday but he was unable to release further details of the secretary’s schedule. Miliband was last in Afghanistan in [...]
Continue reading...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...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...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...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...Monday, September 15, 2008
ISLAMABAD: After two days of hectic negotiations between officials of the US Embassy in Islamabad and family members of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Afghan government finally handed over the son of the Pakistani neuroscientist allegedly linked to Al-Qaeda, and held in US custody. “We did receive some officials from the US Embassy’s legal section and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan Tuesday agreed to forge close cooperation within the framework of Trilateral Military Commission for accurate operations against militants. This resolve surfaced during joint press conference of President Asif Ali Zardari and Afgahn President Hamid Karzai at Presidential Palace after Mr.Zardari took oath of highest office. Popularity: 39% [?]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Asif Ali Zardari took oath for the office Pakistan’s 12th head of state at an impressive ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar administered the oath to Asif Ali Zardari under the third schedule of 1973 Constitution. Popularity: 22% [?]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
KABUL: Newly elected Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has invited his Afghan counterpart to attend his oath-taking ceremony, the Afghan government said Sunday. ’The Pakistani president invited him (Karzai) to take part in the oath-taking ceremony to be held in Islamabad soon,’ the statement said, adding that Karzai accepted the invitation. Karzai, is said [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday felicitated and extended best wishes to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on his election as the President of Pakistan. “In this new historic period, the Chinese side would like to make joint efforts with the Pakistani side to promote our traditional friendship, build a glorious future together, bring the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 17, 2008
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that air strikes carried out in Afghan villages by U.S. and NATO troops are only killing civilians and that the international community should instead go after terror centres in Pakistan. International forces serving under NATO and the separate U.S.-led coalition insist that the vast majority of those [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 8, 2008
KABUL: President Hamid Karzai has said he will contest the coming election to fulfill his agenda for the betterment and development of his impoverished country, hit by decades of strife and continuing Taliban-linked violence. “Yes, I have a job to get done. I have to complete what I have started. I have to bring the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 6, 2008
KABUL: Afghanistan is keen to work with Pakistan to fight Islamic extremism, but Islamabad must rein in elements in the government that are “out of control,” the Afghan foreign minister said Wednesday. Relations between the neighbours plummeted last month when Afghanistan directly accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of involvement in a suicide attack on the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 1, 2008
NEW DELHI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will pay a state visit to India Aug 4 on his way home from a South Asian summit in Sri Lanka, it was announced here. Accompanying the president during the daylong trip will be Foreign Affairs Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta and the National Security Advisor. President Pratibha Patil will host [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 1, 2008
KABUL: Burhanuddin Rabbani turned over the presidency of Afghanistan to Hamid Karzai with a hug and his blessing seven years ago. Now, like many Afghans, Rabbani says he’s counting the days until Karzai is turned out of office. “We thought he was a young man who should be given the opportunity to work as president [...]
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