NEW YORK: A United Nations security briefing has given warning that insurgents are “very likely” to launch a spectacular attack in Kabul within the week as a UN Security Council mission arrived for talks with the Afghan government. Representatives from the 15 member council have arrived in Kabul to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai [...]
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NEW YORK: American intelligence agencies say members of the ISI helped plan the July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Afghanistan, according to a report published by a U.S daily. The New York Times quotes unnamed American officials as saying the conclusion was based on intercepted communications between Pakistani intelligence officers and militants who carried [...]
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LONDON: Afghanistan will ask the international community next month for a half a billion dollars to begin work on a “new Kabul” that will be more than one and a half times the size of the existing capital. Under plans drawn up by President Hamid Karzai’s chief economic adviser, a vast area just north of [...]
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