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Father of Afghan cricket captain taken hostage

JALALABAD - Unknown gunmen dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials said on Wednesday. Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the team in March, confirmed that his father, Khobai Isakhel, had ...

Afghan interpreters to get British visas

LONDON : Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed on Wednesday.Prime Minister David Cameron had initially decided to discourage the interpreters from settling in Britain ...

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May 22, 2013

11 Afghan cops killed in latest violence

KABUL : A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left eleven police officers dead, officials said Tuesday.The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they travelled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack.The ...

pentagon requests afghan war
May 21, 2013

Pentagon requests $80b for Afghan war

WASHINGTONThe Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $80 billion to cover the cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2014, a spokesman said Monday.The request issued Friday for $79.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 is slightly lower than the war funding of $87.2 billion for the current fiscal year, Pentagon ...

politician dead afghan attack
May 21, 2013

Politician among 14 dead in Afghan attack

MAZAR-I-SHARIF : A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who ...

anger afghan mps halt women debate
May 19, 2013

Anger as Afghan MPs halt women's bill debate

KABUL  -  The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teachings.The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in ...

obama cut afghan war spending
May 19, 2013

Obama for cut in Afghan war spending

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 per cent, reflecting his plans to wind down the US presence in that country.The president asked for $79.4 billion to fund so-called overseas contingency operations ...

Afghan village gold mine lures prospectors

  Ben Sheppard After scrambling up a steep mountainside in northAfghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock. “The gold is in here,” he says. Ali was one of generations of local men who used chisels and pickaxes to extract small ...

militants killed afghan raids official
May 15, 2013, 7:58 pm

35 militants killed in Afghan raids: official

Thirty-five Taliban militants have been killed and 30 others wounded during operation across Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Wednesday."Afghan police supported by the army and NATO-led coalition forces launched several cleanup operations in Kunduz, ...

afghan mission remains nato priority rasmussen
May 15, 2013, 8:20 pm

Afghan mission remains NATO priority: Rasmussen

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) remains NATO’s top mission in Afghanistan, the alliance secretary general said, while welcoming new Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Mark Breedlove.“On your watch, Afghan forces will be taking full responsibility for the security ...

afghan roadside bomb kills
May 14, 2013

Afghan roadside bomb kills 13

KANDAHARA bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a ...

Cheers as Afghan minister outs 'corrupt' MPs

KABUL  Afghanistan's finance minister on Monday named in parliament several lawmakers whom he said were guilty of corruption, triggering wild cheering and applause during a televised session of the lower house.Corruption is one of the key challenges facing Afghanistan as it tries to establish ...

Afghan police demand weapons amid tension with Pakistan

GOSHTAAfghan border police, enraged by recent clashes with their Pakistani counterparts, are pleading for more weapons, escalating the tension between the two sides.The fighting, in which an Afghan border policeman was killed last week, has caused a sharp deterioration in relations between the ...

Nato soldiers probed over alleged Afghan abuse

KABUL: The US-led NATO force fighting Taliban insurgents inAfghanistansaid Wednesday it has launched an investigation into alleged misconduct by its soldiers. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement said that the probe would examine a clash on April 28 in the ...

Pakistan stresses OSCE role in Afghan transition process

  UN : With US-led coalition forces set to pull out ofAfghanistannext year,Pakistanhas underscored the role of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the transition process, and said that peace would help strengthen the war-torn country. "As the international ...

Afghan minister vows punishment for fainting girls

  KABUL :Afghanistan’s education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged “poisonings” that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses. Scores of girls’ schools over recent years have seen mysterious mass ...

German soldier killed in Afghan attack

BERLIN :-A German soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, the German army said. German special forces had been supporting an Afghan operation near the northern city of Baghlan when insurgents opened fire on the Afghan and Nato ...

Need for fostering Pak, Afghan ties stressed

  ISLAMABAD   National Logistics Cell (NLC) handed over the newly constructed building of Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty Block atBulkhUniversityat an impressive ceremony held atMazar-i-Sharif,Afghanistan. According to ISPR, the mega project of the university has been completed by NLC ...

7 Nato troops killed in Afghan attacks

  KANDAHAR   A roadside bomb killed fiveUStroops Saturday inAfghanistanand two other Nato soldiers were shot dead in an "insider attack", a week after the Taliban launched their spring offensive. The bomb killed five soldiers in a vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar, local police ...

9 NATO soldiers die in single day in Afghan militancy, violent incidents

The Taliban-linked militancy and violent incidents claimed the lives of nine soldiers from the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a single day on Saturday, turning the day into the bloodiest one since January this year for the alliance stationed in the conflict-ridden ...

Afghan father guns down daughter over ‘affair’

KABUL In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist - a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.Halima, aged between 18 and 20 and a mother of two children, was killed for bringing ...

bomb kills afghan cops
May 03, 2013

Bomb kills 8 Afghan cops

PULI ALAM - A Taliban bomb killed eight Afghan police Thursday in Logar province outside the capital Kabul, officials said, four days after the insurgents started their annual ‘spring offensive’.The members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force were on a joint patrol with Nato-led ...

Afghan envoy summoned over border firing

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to lodge Pakistan’s strong protest on unprovoked firing by Afghan troops at Gursal post on Wednesday in which two Pakistani paramilitary men were injured.“Two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers got ...

afghan female rock fest triumphs
May 02, 2013

Afghan female rock fest triumphs

    KABUL More than 400 Afghan women and girls jumped from their seats, screaming and even headbanging to rock and rap music at an all-female music festival in the capital of Kabul, which organisers say was the largest such event in the country’s history. It may also be one of the ...

Senior Afghan peace envoy killed in blast

KANDAHAR - A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan’s peace council on Wednesday, officials said, the latest setback to efforts to end more than 11 years of war.Shah Wali Khan, the head of the High Peace Council (HPC) in the key southern province of ...

cargo plane crashes at afghan airbase
April 30, 2013

Cargo plane crashes at Afghan airbase

KABUL : A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time. The plane came down inside the airfield boundaries and rescue crews rushed to the scene, ...

dead cargo plane crash at afghan airbase nato
April 30, 2013, 3:11 pm

All 7 dead in cargo plane crash at Afghan airbase: NATO

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airbase in Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven crew members on board, officials said.Rescue teams rushed to the scene after the plane smashed into the ground inside the boundaries of Bagram airfield, a key transport hub for ...

millions cia ghost money paid afghan president office nyt
April 29, 2013, 12:24 pm

CIA gave millions in cash to Karzai over the years: report

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

gunmen release 9 afghan clearers
April 28, 2013

Gunmen release 9 Afghan mine clearers

KANDAHAR:Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid ...

afghan policewomen suffer abuse at hrw
April 26, 2013

Afghan policewomen suffer abuse at work: HRW

KABUL - Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb such abuse.Addressing the concerns of policewomen is necessary to address the ‘rampant ...

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