Posts published in “Day: December 26, 2016”

A key commander of the Taliban group who was leading a group of 30 militants in central Maidan Wardak province was killed during an operation of the security forces. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said commander Lal Zada who was also famous as Farooq was killed during a special military operation conducted late on Friday night. MoI said the operation was conducted in Ismail Khel village in Jalrez district. The Ministry further added that commander…

The Afghan police forces suffered casualties in a coordinated attack by the Taliban militants in western Farah province of Afghanistan. According to an official in Farah, at least 10 policemen lost their lives in the attack and another policeman sustained injuries. The official further added that the attack was carried out in the early hours of Saturday morning targeting a security check post in Farah city. The provincial police chief Toryalai Abdali confirmed the attack…

The group leader of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami group has survived an insider attack involving a member of the group in southern Afghanistan, it has been reported. According to the spokesman of the group Ali Bin Sufyan the incident took place in southern Zabul province after a member of the group opened fire on Yousuf Mansoor Khurasani. Sufyan told The Associated Press that  the attacker was killed by the retaliatory fire of Khurasani’s bodyguard. According to…

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the so-called Durand Line will never be recognised as official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Speaking during an event in Kabul, Karzai said the line has remained a controversial issue between the two nations for many years, imposed by outsiders. Karzai further that Afghanistan’s reluctance to recognise as formal line will never mean enmity with Pakistan, insisting that the residents located along the line should decide regarding…

Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, on Saturday said at a New Afghanistan Research and Studies Center (NARSC) conference in Kabul that a large amount of water goes to Iran and Pakistan and that those countries should respect Afghanistan’s water rights. “The water that is for our neighbors is being given to them. If we have more water, we will give a part of it to our neighbors,” he said. Karzai said he…

(This article was originally published in the Herald’s August 2004 issue) Within 24 hours of the suicide attack that nearly killed Pakistan’s financial wizard and prime minister- designate Shaukat Aziz, a statement was posted on a website known for carrying propaganda material from several Islamic militant groups. “One of our blessed battalions tried to hunt the head of one of America’s infidels in Pakistan while he was returning from Fatehjang, but God wanted him to…

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has confirmed the death of two more senior Al-Qaeda terrorist network leaders in Afghanistan. DoD spokesman, Peter Cook, in a statement said the two senior Al-Qaeda terrorist network leaders were among three killed in a drone strike conducted late in October. Cook further added “A precision airstrike carried out by the U.S. military on Oct. 23 near Kunar, Afghanistan, killed three senior al-Qaida leaders.” He said, previously DoD disclosed…

PESHAWAR: Senior Taliban figures confirmed on Tuesday they had released a new video showing a kidnapped American-Canadian family, including two young boys born in captivity while held by the feared Haqqani network. The video showed for the first time the two sons of Canadian Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, a US citizen. Coleman, 31, was pregnant when the couple were abducted in 2012 inside Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip. A Canadian spokesman said the…

UNITED NATIONS: Reaffirming its commitment to eliminating all terrorist networks, a senior Pakistani diplomat on Monday rejected the Afghan government’s allegation that the Taliban reorganise in Pakistan during the winter saying that their sanctuaries had in fact shifted to Afghanistan. “The drivers of the recent upsurge in violence lie within Afghanistan and not outside,” Pakistan’s acting permanent representative to the UN Nabeel Munir told the Security Council during a debate on the situation in the…

LAHORE: China said on Friday said it would consider the possibility of other countries joining the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through consensus with Pakistan, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Asked what China makes of the offer made by Lt Gen Aamir Riaz, commander, Southern Command, to India to join the project, Chinese Foreign Ministry (FM) spokeswoman Hua Chunying said it is yet to be seen whether India will take it up. “I wonder whether…