A reliable security source told TOLOnews on Friday morning that Hesarak district in Nangarhar is on the verge of falling to the insurgent Taliban. The source said four outposts of national and local police force members had fallen to Taliban on Thursday night, adding that two other outposts collapsed on Wednesday night. According to the source, the clash is now near the district chief’s office. The source added that police force members have criticized the…
Posts published in July 2016
The majority of the militants fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan are coming from Pakistan, Central Asian and Gulf countries. The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar informed regarding the issue during a visit to the eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday. The visit by Atmar followed five days after the loyalists of the terror group launched a major attack on police check posts in Kot district. Atmar…
Pakistan continues to pursue its hostile policies towards Afghanistan by supporting militant groups in their war efforts against the country, a number of Afghan political commentators said on Thursday. They claimed that Pakistan had now mobilized the Taliban under the guise of Daesh. Other countries were also coordinating with Pakistan in funding militant groups such as Daesh. “If there was a will to do it, we would be able to eliminate Daesh in Syria and…
Former lawmaker and leader of the National Participation Party of Afghanistan Najibulllah Kabuli has called on Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar not to act on the instructions issued by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence which accused of supporting the Afghan militant groups. He was speaking during a press conference in Kabul today and asked Hekmatyar to positively answer to the demands of the Afghan people. Kabuli further added “Our message to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is to refrain from…
ISLAMABAD: A high level meeting held in Islamabad on Thursday decided to engage Afghanistan and UNHCR immediately and devise concrete steps to ensure early and sustained return of Afghan refugees to their homeland. It was held in pursuance of the Prime Minister’s directive with respect to six month extension accorded for the stay of registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The meeting was co-chaired by Minister for States and Frontier Regions Abdul Qadir Baloch and Advisor…
Islamabad: Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said Afghan refugees issue is quite serious and soon a national policy will be conceived to regulate their stay in Pakistan. Nisar’s remarks come in the backdrop of increasing anti-refugee rhetoric, especially from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan governments. But while the two governments are giving increasingly harsher warnings to Afghan refugees and asking them to leave, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan…
WASHINGTON – The United States has again questioned Pakistan’s efforts to combat terrorism, while asserting that it wants to work with India and other countries in the region to combat the menace. “We obviously work closely with India on counterterrorism efforts in the region as we do with Pakistan, and we’ve been very clear publicly and privately about our concerns about Pakistan’s efforts to combat terrorism in the region and the need for it to…
WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain has given Pakistan a clean chit as far as Afghanistan’s troubled state of affairs is concerned, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Chairman of the United States Armed Services Committee said that the responsibility of trouble in Afghanistan and the failure to resolve it did not lie with Pakistan or President Ashraf Ghani but with President Barack Obama. He criticised Obama’s policies while talking about the region. According to the…
The United States added al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, a regional branch of the global extremist network, to its terror blacklist on Thursday. The State Department designated AQIS a “foreign terrorist organization” and its leader, Indian-born Asim Umar, a “specially designated global terrorist.” Al Qaeda, the extremist movement founded by the late Osama bin Laden, has long been a banned group, but Thursday’s order singles out a relatively new offshoot. Bin Laden’s successor, Egyptian…
Islamabad: There are renewed efforts behind the scenes between Pakistan and the United States to resolve the issues of the sale of F-16s. In this respect, a delegation of influential US lawmakers is set to arrive in Islamabad soon. A well placed source told Pakistan Today that a four-member US delegation under the leadership of Senator John McCain is likely to arrive in Pakistan on July 2. Senator McCain is a Republican and a former…
RAWALPINDI: The ownership of a sealed temple in Gawalmandi has become the subject of a dispute between the Hindu community and the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), following alleged attempts to convert the place of worship into a commercial plaza. The Swami Narayan Temple, located in Gawalmandi’s main square, is a single-storey building spread over more than 10 marlas, with three open sides. It is located in front of the local Jamia mosque, near the…