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  • ISAF plane makes hard landing in Afghanistan

    A C-130 plane with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made a hard landing Sunday in Afghanistan, but there were no casualties, a statement said. The plane landed in Logar province, 60 km south of Kabul, Xinhua cited the ISAF statement as saying. Without providing details, the statement stressed that "there are no casualties, and there was no indication of insurgent ...

  • Roadside bomb kills 4 Afghan cops in eastern province

    Nangarhar, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed Sunday as a roadside bomb went off in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement. "Four members of Afghan Border Police died following a roadside bombing in Khawari area of Muhmad Dara district at around 10 a.m. local time Sunday," the statement said. The Nangarhar province with ...

  • Pentagon planning to claim lowest-ever annual Afghan war costs since 2005

    The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005. The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments deployed in Afghanistan are returning to their homeland, Washington Times reports. According to the report, President Barack Obama's ...

  • Protests halt debate over eliminating violence against women in Afghan parliament

    A debate held by Afghanistan MPs to back up law to eliminate violence against women came to a standstill amid angry protests by traditionalists. A 2009 presidential decree has banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages but was not approved in the parliament, the BBC reports. According to the report, the speaker had to end the debate 15 minutes after the protests ...

  • Afghan police officer killed in Taliban attack

    A senior police official was killed in Afghanistan's Farah province when two Taliban militants opened fire on him, an official said Saturday. Ghani Khan, the police chief of Khak-e-Safid district, was visiting Charbagh area outside provincial capital Farah city Friday night. Khan was killed on the spot as two Taliban militants, riding a motorcycle, came across and sprayed bullets, reported ...


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  • Afghan Lawmakers Block Womens Rights Law

    Afghanistan's parliament has delayed action on a measure aimed at protecting women's rights. Activists say the move Saturday is a blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the ousting of the Taliban from power. The Taliban observed strict Islamic rule that banned Afghan women from attending school or participating in most public activity. ...

  • Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh

    Girls were poisoned by a toxic gas sprayed at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh KABUL - 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan`s northern state of Balkh.The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls` High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their ...

  • President of Afghanistan Karzai said US wanted to keep nine military bases in the country even after NATO with…

    President of Afghanistan Karzai said US wanted to keep nine military bases in the country even after NATO withdraws its soldiers in 2014 KABUL - President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai on Thursday said the US wanted to keep nine military bases in the country.During a speech at Kabul University, Karzai said that the US planned to keep its nine bases even after NATO withdraws its soldiers in ...

  • Karzai in talks for Indian military aid

    KABUL // The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said. This comes at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad, where a new government, led by two-time prime minister Nawaz ...

  • Afghan President Seeks Indian Military Aid Amid Pakistan Row

    An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week to that country. Karzai's trip, which begins on May 20, comes amid escalating border tensions with India's archrival, Pakistan. Spokesman Aimal Faizi says Karzai will discuss recent Afghan-Pakistani border skirmishes when he visits New Delhi and will seek Indian ...

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