KUNDUZ CITY – Local officials of northern Kunduz said on Wednesday that the Taliban abducted almost 50 passengers earlier in the day. The incident took place in Bagh Meeri village close to Kunduz city after a group of insurgents stopped a bus which was travelling from north-eastern Badakhshan province to Kabul, provincial council officials said. This comes after at least 200 people were kidnapped last week. Ten were killed immediately and another two were beheaded…
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Islamabad: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said Wednesday that they were in the exit mode right before the emergency was imposed. “I had no intention of continuing my role in the government. I had decided that whoever the party nominates after me could become the next prime minister after winning the elections,” the former prime minister said during an interview with a private news channel. “I used to meet the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP)…
TO the average citizen, the Nuclear Suppliers Group may be an obscure organisation of uncertain importance. But the US-led push to grant India membership of the NSG, a 48-country cartel that oversees international trade in civilian-use nuclear materials with the purpose of ensuring that that trade is not diverted for military purposes, is a destabilising move that could have profound consequences for strategic and nuclear stability in South Asia.Pakistan’s position is wholly correct: now that…
The US, more than any other country, has been at the forefront of efforts to admit India to the club of ‘responsible’ nuclear powers that are allowed to buy and sell nuclear energy and use it for civilian purposes with precious little oversight. This happened despite India refusing to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or take any other step to show it deserved this special treatment. The process of India’s entry into the nuclear…
There is a clear division between Pakistan and its traditional ally the US over the issue of terrorists. This became amply clear when Mullah Mansour was killed in a drone strike in Balochistan. Pakistan protested against the attack, calling it a violation of the country’s sovereignty. It was revealed that President Obama had personally approved the drone strike and that it may not be the last one. State Department Spokesmen Mark Toner later made it…
Pakistan is a nuclear state, with both civil and military applications of nuclear technologies. So is India. And China. Balancing nuclear interests in the global context is not unlike three-dimensional chess with complex moves being made that reach far into the futures of all states involved in the game. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently in the US, a three-day visit that is part of legacy-building for President Obama and some crafty politicking for…