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  • Pakistan urges Afghanistan to consider regional implications of arms deal with India

    The Foreign Office in Pakistan has urged Afghanistan to consider the regional security situation while pursuing an arms purchase deal with India. At a media briefing on Friday, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jillani said as a sovereign country Afghanistan can pursue its own policies, but it should mind the overall peace and security situation in the region. According to Dawn News, Jillani was ...

  • Afghanistan UN condemns terrorist attack on partner agencys compound Afghanistan UN condemns terrorist attack on partner agencys compound

    24 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan have strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in central Kabul, which earlier today wounded three of the agency's staff, one seriously. One staff member from the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) was also injured, according ...

  • Expert US Foreign Policy in Retreat

    A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward for the United States is to do ...

  • Why insider attacks are down in Afghanistan

    No one claims the problem is solved, but officials are cautiously hopeful that the lower number of 'green-on-blue' killings in Afghanistan this year means preventive measures are having an ...


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During an early scene in "Leaving Las Vegas," Ben Sanderson (Nicholas Cage) drunkenly tries to pick up on an unwilling woman in a bar. He makes a fool of himself, and when the woman suggests that he shouldn't drink so much, he retorts by saying, "Yeah, well, maybe I shouldn't breathe so much." That statement sums up Ben's mental framework. Not much information is given, but early on we le ... ...

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  • Western Aid Finances Afghan Projects From Silly to Sublime

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  • Afghan forces lauded for keeping casualties to a minimum

    The countries government lauded its forces on Saturday for beating back a Taliban assault that left one police officer, two civilians and all four militants dead. Explosions rocked the city for several hours on Friday after insurgents launched a coordinated suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The effectiveness of Afghan security ...

  • Afghan interpreters may move to the UK – security forces have no safe haven | Jon Boone

    When I met Rahmatullah two years ago he was laid up in bed in Kabul's towering national military hospital. Gruesome rods protruded from the smashed leg of the 21-year-old soldier who had been serving in Helmand at the time with the 215 "Maiwand" Corps. His bone had been broken by a Taliban bullet fired not on the battlefield, but inside his own home while he was on leave in ...

  • Thousands Of Peace Balloons Handed Out In Kabul

    Volunteers have distributed 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Kabul, after a day of explosions and gunfire in the Afghan capital. The balloons were handed out to passers-by in the city center on the morning of May 25. The "We Believe in Balloons" event was organized by New York-based artist Yazmany Arboleda, who has arranged similar actions in Kenya, India, and Japan. ...

  • Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital

    KABUL, Afghanistan-A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the country's east killed 12 people at a mosque during ...

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