KHAAMA PRESS,Nov 19 2015, 7:43 pm The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has arrested a Taliban commander with his men involved in attack that led to the fall of Kundoz city in September. NDS in a statement released on Thursday states that Ziulhaq and his men Qari Shir Agha, Qandagha, Mohammad Naqib and Wahidullah had recently crossed border into Baghlan province from neighboring Kundoz for attacks. Besides the assault on the…
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KHAAMA PRESS – Thu Nov 19 2015, 1:24 pm Taliban militants have captured Yamgan of Badakhshan province for second time in six months. Militants armed with heavy and light weapons launched a coordinated attack on this district from several angles yesterday and ultimately captured the it. Sakhi Dad Haidari, Deputy Police Chief of Badakhshan said due to bad weather conditions, reinforcement did not arrive to Yamgan on time. The district was overrun by Taliban in…
PTI report in The Hindu, Nov 20, 2015 New Delhi: Afghanistan on Thursday pressed for operationalising the four-year-old India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Pact (SPA), in which defence cooperation is a major component. Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekamat Karzai said a meeting between the National Security Advisors of the two countries had discussed the ways to enhance defence cooperation, but refused to elaborate details of the deliberations. He said Afghanistan’s NSA has given its “wish list” to…
By Jon Boone in The Guardian, Nov 18, 2015 at 05.01 GMT Islamabad: Afghan refugees who have lived in Pakistan for decades are being driven out of the country in a wave of harassment by officials, with many facing arbitrary arrests and the destruction of what little property they own, Human Rights Watch has said. Pakistan’s large population of Afghans has long lived at the margins of society, but a report by the rights group…
Pakistan is home to one of the largest displaced populations in the world — the Afghan refugees. They have been here for 35 years or more; many are second generation, grew up and went to school here and have never known life in Afghanistan. They are now marrying and having children and looking to their futures, which may not be in Pakistan. Pakistan at first welcomed them, difficult as it was to accommodate such a…
The writer is a lawyer and the Pakistan Researcher at Human Rights Watch “The police asked us, ‘What are you doing here? Go to your own country!’” said Farhang, 31, describing his treatment in Pakistan. “It was 1am … they put all us men in the police cars and took us to the police station … We spent 11 days in jail. Then they took us to the border and told us to cross. I…
The Paris massacre perpetrated by a jihadist band has the whole world grieving alongside the French. In tandem with the condemnations of the jihadist terror have been voices calling for a rethink of European and North American policies dealing with the refugees leaving Syria. While a Syrian passport found near the Stade de France attack site has not been conclusively linked to the attackers, it already fed the frenzy over tightening screws on the refugee…
Khaama Press – Tue Nov 17 2015, 8:44 pm The Afghan Intelligence operatives have detained at least 27 university students who were affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and the Taliban group. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the university students were arrested after they torched the national flag and instead raised the flags of ISIS and Taliban group. NDS said a number of the detained university students…
The writer is an assistant professor at Bahria University. “We view the Taliban as …an important partner in a peaceful Afghan-led reconciliation process. We are not actively targeting the Taliban”, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis. This is a very significant statement given by the US Department of Defense. The Americans have been trying for peace talks with the Taliban for quite some time. Interestingly, the American President George Bush had said in September 2004…
Khaama Press – Tue Nov 17 2015, 6:46 pm The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has detained the military commander of Taliban for Qala-i-Zal District of northern Kundoz province. Commander Qari Sharifullah was arrested along with his deputy Zia-ud-din after a brief clash with NDS personnel in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province. A statement released by NDS on Tuesday states that the arrested Taliban were involved in armed clashes…
SOUND BYTE: ‘The more Afghans trust Pakistan, the worse off we are’
By Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, November 19th, 2015 Last week, a group of journalists, academics and civil society members from Afghanistan were invited to what was informally known as a ‘Track 1.5/2’ exchange, hosted by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS). Dawn spoke to Barry Salaam, a media professional and human rights activist, who visited Islamabad for the dialogue, and asked him about the prospects for peace between the two neighbours in the…