ISLAMABAD: Saudi Defence Minister Mohammad bin Salman was upbeat after a brief stopover in Islamabad on his way to an extended East Asia trip. Soon after his departure from Islamabad after a late-night meeting which continued into the early hours of Monday morning, he sent a ‘thank-you note’ to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, saying that his few hours in the Pakistani capital and military headquarters “underlined the depth of the strategic relationship between the two…
Posts published in “Day: August 30, 2016”
The horrifying 10-hour siege at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, which left at least 16 people dead and another 53 wounded, has provoked the usual response from the Afghan government. At an extraordinary meeting of the country’s National Security Council, the government claimed the attack was orchestrated from Pakistan and called on us to do more in the fight against militancy. This statement came despite the fact that no group has claimed responsibility…
Following the attacks at the American University in Kabul, which claimed 13 lives and left dozens injured, fingers were pointed towards Pakistan by the Afghan authorities. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani contacted Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to go after the attackers’ accomplices from across the border. However, Pakistan informed the Afghan government that since no technical traces of telephonic contacts between the university attackers and people on Pakistan’s side of the border…
In light of the deteriorating situation between the two countries and the constant blame game, Pakistan has finally taken a stand on illegal crossings through the Durand Line. It has maintained that under no circumstance will anyone be allowed to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan unless they have the proper documentation and a valid visa. Tensions ran high along the Pak-Afghan border at Torkham when Islamabad moved to erect the gate as a first step…
A headquarter of the Taliban group was destroyed in an airstrike in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan along with a mine making factory of the group. Local authorities in Helmand said the headquarter used by the Taliban was destroyed in Nad-e-Ali district during a special night operation conducted on Thursday night. The authorities further added that the headquarter was destroyed after the Afghan forces conducted a surveillance operation that lasted for almost 72 hours to…
The Taliban militants have reportedly captured the control o Jani Khel district in south eastern Paktia province of Afghanistan. The control of the district fell earlier today following heavy clashes between the Taliban insurgents and the Afghan security forces. According to reports, both the Taliban insurgents and the Afghan forces have suffered casualties during the gun battle. Provincial governor’s spokesman Naqibullah Atal confirmed the fall of the district and said at least five policemen lost…
ISLAMABAD: Months after a group of militants killed students at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, the enemies of education struck again when they attacked defenseless pupils and their teachers at a higher education facility in Kabul. Those who committed this heinous crime in the Afghan capital on Wednesday are mysteriously silent and no group has claimed responsibility. However, the style of the attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul is nothing new and…
WASHINGTON: The United States has again urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to jointly fight the scourge of terrorism, refusing to comment on the allegation that Islamabad was involved in this week’s terrorist attack at a university in Kabul. At least 13 were killed and 36 wounded when terrorists attacked the American University in Kabul on Wednesday. On Thursday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani claimed that Pakistan-based terrorists had carried out the attack and telephoned Army Chief Gen…
JIQIE NO. 2 VILLAGE, China — She was 27, a kind, hard-working woman who supported her family by herding yaks and harvesting caterpillar fungus, a prized health cure, on the high grasslands of Tibet. Last October, Tsering Tso was found hanged from a bridge in a small town near her home. Her family and local villagers gathered outside the police station in Chalong township to demand answers: She had last been seen in the company…
ISLAMABAD: China will provide eight submarines to the Pakistan Navy by 2028, said Chief Project Director of Submarines while briefing the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence during the committee’s visit to the Naval Headquarters here on Friday. Four of the subs would be constructed in China and the rest in Pakistan. The committee, headed by Shaikh Rohail Asghar, was earlier welcomed by Chief of the Naval Staff at the Naval Headquarters. The chief project…
An enemy’s enemy is a friend. This may be sufficient reason for New Delhi and Kabul to court each other. Yet, there is much more to the growing Indo-Afghan ties. Neither Afghans desecrating the Pakistani flag at the Chaman border crossing point, ostensibly in reaction to the burning of the Indian flag in Balochistan, nor former president Karzai backing Modi on his highly controversial statement on Balochistan should spring up any surprise. The Durand Line…