The office of the CEO announced Thursday night that the two National Unity Government leaders held a meeting at the Presidential Palace (ARG) earlier in the day. According to a statement issued by CEO Abdullah Abdullah’s office, it was noted that the meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere and the two leaders exchanged views on a number of national issues including the overall political situation in the country. “At the meeting, the president (Ashraf…
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At least four people were killed and fourteen others were wounded in an explosion in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan earlier today. Provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi said the incident took place after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detonated on a roadside in Khulm district. He said the target of the attack was lawmaker Asadullah Sharifi as he was crossing the area but there are no reports regarding his fate in the explosion.…
Nearly a week on from the incident that triggered the latest round of tension on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the dispute remains unresolved and the border is still shut. All traffic both foot and vehicular is suspended and trucks stretch for miles on both sides of the border. It will be recalled that on August 19, a crowd on the Afghan side pelted stones at the Friendship Gate (a misnomer if ever there was one) and…
ISLAMABAD: After Afghanistan claimed that an hours-long attack on a university in Kabul was orchestrated from Pakistan, the army carried out a combing operation to verify the presence of terrorists in areas straddling the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. At least 16 people, including eight students, were killed and 53 were injured after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday evening sparking a 10-hour long gun battle on campus. While no group has so…
The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has asked the Pakistani Army Chief General Raheel Sharif to act against the culprits of Kabul attack based in Pakistan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani called Gen. Sharif during the National Security Council meeting and asked him to take actions against the culprits who are based in Pakistan. According to the ARG Palace, the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS) updated the meeting…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan informed the Afghan government on Thursday that no “technical traces” of telephonic contacts between the Kabul university attackers and people on its side of the border could be found, and sought more evidence. This was conveyed during a telephonic conversation between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif, according to a security source. President Ghani had called Gen Sharif to ask Pakistan for action against the attackers’ accomplices. The conversation…
QUETTA: Talks between Pakistani and Afghan border officials on the reopening of the Chaman border ended inconclusively on Thursday after another impasse-hit flag meeting at the Friendship Gate. The Pak-Afghan border has been closed for the last seven days, suspending Nato supplies and cross-border trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan after Afghan protesters burnt the Pakistani flag. According to sources, the fourth flag meeting was held at the Friendship Gate between border authorities of Pakistan and…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan yesterday complained to the United States against its indifference to Islamabad and halting of aid money. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry protested that the US did not acknowledge Pakistan’s efforts against terrorism despite the country’s commitment to wipe out the menace. In a meeting with Special Assistant to President Barrack Obama and Senior Director for South Asian Affairs Peter Lavoy, Chaudhry said Pakistan had sacrificed more than any other country but the…