Kabul: Afghan forces, backed by the United States, have killed an estimated 300 Daesh fighters in an operation mounted two weeks ago, the top U.S and NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Wednesday, calling it a severe blow to the group. General John Nicholson said the offensive in the eastern province of Nangarhar was part of U.S operations to degrade the capabilities of Daesh wherever it raised its head, whether in Iraq and Syria or…
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A top Taliban leader was killed during an operation in the restive northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Wednesday. A statement by MoI said the top Taliban leader was the shadow district governor of Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. “Yesterday evening, Afghan National Security Forces launched a joint clearance operation to clear armed Taliban from Now Abad village of Emam Sahib District of northern Kunduz province,” a statement by…
ISLAMABAD: Three agents of an intelligence agency of a neighbouring country have been arrested from Islamabad and Peshawar separately as they were planning to carry out attacks at sensitive places in the federal and provincial capitals, officials said on Wednesday. In Islamabad, on a tip-off, the police raided a hideout in the Simli Dam area and arrested a spy identified as Gull Mir, 50, who was working for the Afghan spy agency. The accused hailed…
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtu nkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday specified time for general debates on the alleged forced return and harassment of Afghan refugees at the hands of police and the security forces in the province. “As the matter related to Afghan refugees has been raised time and again by honourable lawmakers on the assembly floor so I specify the private member day (Friday) for general debate,” the speaker said. His remarks came after…
PESHAWAR: In order to provide protection and safety to the imprisoned Indian prisoner, the authorities at the Central Prison Peshawar have shifted him to a separate room. An official confirmed to The News that the convicted Indian prisoner Hamid Nihal Ansari was shifted to a separate room to protect him from the prisoners, who quarreled with him two times. The prison authorities took the step after receiving direction from the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to…
Local authorities announced Wednesday the suspension of a joint China-France 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) nuclear fuel recycling project in the wake of days of protests from local residents who fear possible environmental and health hazards. Authorities in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province, said on their Sina Weibo account that “The preliminary work of the nuclear fuel recycling project’s site selection is suspended.” Lianyugang officials declined to make further comment on why the project was…
A prominent Pakistani politician and former lawmaker Afrasiab Khattak has said the Pakistani security establishment’s support to the Afghan Taliban is an open secret as he joined several other politicians and critics in slamming the slamming the security establishments of the country for their ‘good’ and ‘bad’ terrorists approach. The remarks by Khattak came after a deadly attack on a hospital in Quetta city, the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Critics accusde Pakistan’s…