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Posts published in December 2016

Governor of Bamyan’s Shibar District survived Taliban ambush By KHAAMA PRESS – Sat Jun 27 2015, 4:20 pm

The governor of Bamyan province’s Shibar District has survived a Taliban ambush. Mohammad Azim Farid, the district governor, after arriving at a safe location said that he was going from Bamyan city to his office in Shibar when he came under Taliban ambush on Saturday. He said Taliban fired light and heavy weapons on their vehicles but luckily did not hit anyone. Farid added that including him all passengers of the vehicles survived but one…

10 Taliban insurgents killed, 19 wounded in Faryab airstrike: MoD By KHAAMA PRESS – Thu Dec 29 2016, 9:58 am

At least 10 Taliban insurgents were killed and 19 others were wounded during a series of air and artillery strikes in northern Faryab province. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the raids were conducted in the restive Qaisar district of Faryab. The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far. Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents and militants belonging…

Afghan Special Forces killed over 400 Taliban leaders in past 9 month: MoI By KHAAMA PRESS – Wed Dec 28 2016, 2:05 pm

Over 400 leaders of the Taliban group were killed in the past 9 during the operations conducted by the Afghan Special Forces, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials said Wednesday. MoI spokesman Sediq Sediqi said the Minister of Interior Taj Mohammad Jahid praised the Special Operations Forces of the Afghan National Police during an event in Kabul today. Minister Jahid said the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is not having roots to insurgency led by Taliban…

Deadly Kabul attacks report targeting Shi’ites presented to NSC By KHAAMA PRESS – Wed Dec 28 2016, 4:49 pm

The National Security Council of Afghanistan (NSC) was presented a report on deadly attacks against Shi’ites in Kabul for which the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the NSC meeting was organized in the Presidential Palace and was chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. A detailed report of the recent attacks against the Shi’ite minority was presented by the Second Vice President…

Taliban suffer heavy casualties in Kunduz operations By KHAAMA PRESS – Thu Dec 29 2016, 9:27 am

The Taliban insurgents have suffered heavy casualties during the clearance operations in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan. According to the security authorities in North of Afghanistan, at least 30 militants were killed or wounded during the operations. The 20th Pamir Division of the Afghan National Army in a statement said several villages were cleared of the insurgents during the operations. No further details were given regarding the exact locations where the operations were conducted but…

Mullah Omar not visited Pakistan over the past 25 years, claims Taliban By KHAAMA PRESS – Wed Dec 28 2016, 12:28 pm

The Taliban group founder and ex-supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar not visited Pakistan over the past 25 years, the insurgent group claimed Wednesday. The group released a statement to reject a report regarding a meeting between Mullah Omar and a Norwegian diplomat in a luxury hotel in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. “A western newspaper ‘The New York Times’ published a report citing a Norwegian diplomat – Alf Arne Ramslien – who claimed initially…

China says willing to promote CPEC with Pakistan : Reuters

BEIJING: The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it was willing to promote the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with Pakistan. The statement comes after Islamabad said it would secure soft loans from China totalling around $1 billion for three road projects in the CPEC. National Highway Authority (NHA) spokesman Ashraf Zaman said hopefully relevant agreement would be signed in China-Pakistan Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting this week. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying…

Chinese officials elated at police action to recover stolen money by WASIM RIAZ in Dawn, Dec 28, 2016

Lahore: The president and vice president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were elated after a sum of over Rs0.5 million stolen from their house was recovered by Lahore police within 24 hours, it emerged Monday. Chinese citizen Robin, expressing his happiness, said he felt safe in Pakistan. “From this case, our status is that now Pakistan is not a terrorist country… it is a safe country,” he said. He also presented a bouquet of…

Chinese to outnumber Baloch natives by 2048, says FPCCI: by Fawad Yousafzai in The Nation,29-Dec-2016

ISLAMABAD – Given the current rate of influx of Chinese nationals into Balochistan and after the completion of the CPEC the native population of the area will be outnumbered by 2048. To address the concern of the Baloch citizens regarding marginalisation, the government should provide a sense of security to the natives by including them in the legislative process, and by providing them with technical and vocational training to ensure their share in the economic…

Campus violence rises in China: By Liu Caiyu in Global Times, Dec 28, 2016 at 21:48:39

A total of 1,114 people involved in 1,881 cases of school violence and bullying have been arrested from January to November, and experts are calling for a specific law on school bullying amid the country’s increasing efforts to protect juveniles. Middle school students account for a higher percentage among underage suspects of school bullying, Shi Weizhong, deputy head of Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP)’s public prosecution department, said at a press briefing on Wednesday. Separately, recent…

Car bomb terror attack kills five in China’s western Xinjiang region, official media reports By Teddy Ng in South China Morning Post, Dec 29,2016

A “terror attack” struck a county in China’s restive region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, local authorities said, killing five people including the four attackers. A car carrying the attackers crashed into the yard of the office building of the local Communist Party committee in Karakax county at 4.50pm, and a home-made explosive device was ignited, according to the news portal of the Xinjiang government. Police shot and killed the four attackers, while one other person…