The security situation in Afghanistan is extremely serious and unfortunately the arrangements to tackle the situation are not up to the mark. The government authorities do not see eye to eye with each other regarding the security situation and the measures to control it. As there is no guideline or consensus on the higher level, the operational teams are not sure about what sort of steps they have to take. In most of the cases,…
Posts published in “Day: July 21, 2016”
At least 28 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the latest operations conducted in East of Afghanistan. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces said the militants were killed in Nangahar province in the past 24 hours. The operations were conducted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Kot and Achin district, 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the…
The Taliban group’s expert bomb-maker was killed in an airstrike in the restive southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. The provincial government media office in a statement said a military chief of the Taliban group for Helmand province Mazlum was also killed in the airstrike. Mazlum was also the commander of the ‘Red Unit’ of the Taliban group in southern Helmand province who was killed along with the expert bomb-maker in Babaji area. According to a…
Taliban insurgents have reportedly taken control of most parts of Qala-e-Zal district of northern Kunduz province after an almost three-day battle with security forces, local officials said on Wednesday. Scores of families fled the district after dozens of Taliban insurgents attacked Qala-e-Zal early Monday and started clashing with security forces, said officials. One local official said that the battle is now close to police headquarters in the capital of the district. But Masoum Hashemi, a…
Amid a surge in Taliban insurgency, a number of military and political analysts Wednesday pressed the Afghan government to enforce stricter measures to curb the funding sources of Taliban operatives and other terrorist organizations active in the country. They said that the Taliban finance their war machine through illicit drug smuggling and a range of other illicit dealings in their strongholds. “The government has the ability to take the issue under control and prevent the…
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif and US top commander in Afghanistan Gen John Nicholson on Wednesday held talks on retuning of their cooperation for Afghan peace. Commander of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan Gen Nicholson was on his routine visit to Pakistan during which he held discussions with the army chief on management of Pak-Afghan border and prospects of peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. It was his first visit to Pakistan since President…
THE surest way to taint a legitimate, necessary and morally correct protest is to involve illegitimate, unnecessary and morally reprehensible actors.The violence in Indian-held Kashmir against ordinary Kashmiris rising up in protest against the Indian state is a significant event in the disputed region’s troubled history.This is also the moment for Pakistan to throw its diplomatic weight behind the people of Kashmir and to mobilise domestic and international support for them.It may be a long…
As all of Pakistan observed ‘Black Day’ on Wednesday in a bid to lodge strong protest against Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir, we express solidarity with the people of Kashmir and our commitment for the cause. The latest spate of unrest in the Indian-held Kashmir has resulted in senseless bloodshed – nearly 50 unarmed Kashmiris lost their lives and 2000 lay wounded. PM Nawaz Sharif has undoubtedly brought up the issue of Kashmir on multiple…
SWABI: Over 60 Chinese engineers and workers of Tarbela Dam fourth extension project have been sent back home recently and it is not yet known when their replacement would reach Tarbela Dam to accelerate construction activities, sources in the China camp told this correspondent here on Wednesday. They said that it was not known whether their replacement would reach from China or local engineers and workers would be hired by the Chinese company, Sinohydro. They…
the author is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1933, Japan walked out of the League of Nations after being condemned for invading Manchuria. This act of defiance dealt a blow to liberal internationalists’ hopes that global cooperation could lead to a peaceful resolution of the Asian crisis. It also ended decades of Japanese globalization during the Meiji and Taisho periods and set Tokyo on a path of confrontation…
In China, where many are angered by an unfavourable international ruling on Beijing’s maritime claims, when does patriotism become unpatriotic? When the government says so. Chinese officials, academics and journalists have unleashed a cacophony of criticism against an arbitration tribunal in The Hague since it ruled against Beijing’s claims to historic and economic rights over much of the South China Sea on July 12. They denounced the tribunal as illegitimate and insinuated that the U.S.…