Новости за 19.08.2015

Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the new supreme leader of Taliban has reportedly said that the group lost a hand when Hamid Gul, former chief of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), died. Pakistan’s Urdu language news paper ‘Daily Ummat’ reports that Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Mansour has sent a message of condolences to Hamid Read the full article...

The Pakistani Foreign Office claimed Wednesday that three soldiers of the country’s Frontier Personnel were killed two others were wounded following shelling by the Afghan forces. The Afghan ambassador in Pakistan Janan Mosazai was called-in to the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan today regarding the shelling and other issues. “Ambassador of Afghanistan Janan Mosazai was called Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday that no one can impose their demands on Afghan people with threats insisting that the stance of the government of national unity towards the internal and external affairs have been ascertained. Speaking during a ceremony to mark the 96th Independence Day of Afghanistan at the ARG Presidential Palace, President Read the full article...

Nikolai Bordyuzha, the Secretary General of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) says that Kazakhstan has provided adequate military-technical assistance to Tajikistan for strengthening its border with Afghanistan. “The provision of military and technical assistance to Tajikistan in strengthening the border with Afghanistan will continue. Almost all countries of the CSTO in different volumes and depending Read the full article...

The Taliban militants released abducted passengers five days after they were taken as hostages from the southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials, the Taliban had initially abducted nine passengers but later released a woman and a man who were both elders while another hostage had managed to flee. Deputy provincial Read the full article...

Two Afghan youths who were looted while visiting India as tourists have returned back to Afghanistan with the help of the Indian police, it has reported. (Photo The Tribune India) Identified as 19-year-old Amir Khan and 16-year-old Amiri Mashuqullah, the two Afghan students were looted by some miscreants in Delhi, the capital city of India. Read the full article...

96 years from today Afghan nation led by King Amanullah Khan upraised and fought with the world’s biggest empire and acquired independence for Afghanistan. Amanullah Khan was the third son of Amir Habibullah Khan who rose to power after his father was assassinated on 20 February 1919 in Laghman province of eastern Afghanistan. Amir Amanullah Read the full article...

National Security Advisor to the former President Hamid Karzai has endorsed the National Unity Government’s stance against Pakistan. Speaking during a gathering of the provincial governors association Rangin Dadfar Spanta called on an “irony” unity of th people considering the national issues and insisted that considering divisional interests is not important. He said the allies Read the full article...

Taliban militants abducted the provincial court chief for norther Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, the local officials said Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday close to Shebarghan city while he was on his way together with his three sons. Jawzjan provincial police chief Abdul Hafiz Khashi said the security forces have launched an operation to Read the full article...

A senior al-Qaeda commander has been killed along with his Iranian partner in Karachi city of Pakistan. Local media reports that the two were killed in a raid in Gulshan-i-Iqbal area of Karachi city early on Tuesday morning. The two killed are identified as Abdul Ahad, originally from Swat area of Pakistan, who was heading Read the full article...

More than 200 Taliban fighters have put down their weapons amid ongoing military operation led by 1st Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum. Abdul Baqi Hashimi, head of the provincial council of Faryab province say that the military operation launched recently under the command of General Abdul Rashid Dostum in Qaisar, Pakhtoon Kot and Almar districts Read the full article...