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  • Afghan President Karzai to hold talks with Manmohan Singh today

    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who is in India on a three-day visit, will meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here this evening. Security, infrastructure development and peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan are likely to figure prominently during their talks. This is Karzai's second visit to India in the last six months. President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday conferred ...

  • In Kabul UNESCO chief spotlights Afghanistans educational and cultural gains In Kabul UNESCO chief spotlights Afghanistans educational and cultural gains

    20 May 2013 150 Education is not against any religion, the head of the United Nations educational and cultural agency told Afghan authorities and families during a visit to the country to promote learning for women and girls, and to highlight the importance of Afghan cultural heritage as a vital economic asset. "Providing education to girls and women is not against religious beliefs," said ...

  • Sharif Calls for Peace Talks With Pakistani Taliban

    ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, who is set to become prime minister for a third time after his party won recent parliamentary elections, on Monday called for peace talks with domestic Taliban extremists, saying "this is the best optionrdquo; to fight militancy. Addressing newly elected federal and provincial lawmakers of his Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party in Lahore, Sharif ...

  • 14 killed in Afghan suicide bombing

    A Taliban suicide bomber Monday blew himself up in front of a government office in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, killing at least 14 people and wounding 13 others, the interior ministry said. The bombing took place in front of the entrance gate of the Baghlan provincial council headquarters in Pul-e-Khumi around 10.30 a.m., Xinhua reported. Mohammad Rasoul Mohseni, the head of the ...

  • Karzai leaves for state visit to India

    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Monday left on a two-day visit to India, the president's office said in a statement. "President Hamid Karzai, leading a high-level delegation, left this morning (Monday) on a two-day state visit to India at the invitation of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee," Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. During his visit, Karzai is scheduled to meet Mukherjee, ...


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  • Roadside bombing kills 6 police in W. Afghanistan

    Six Afghan police were killed as a roadside bomb went off in Herat province 640 km west of Kabul on Tuesday, a local official said."The ill-fated policemen were on the way to Obe district this morning when their vehicle ran over a mine on the road leading to Salma dam, leaving all the six aboard the van dead,"district police chief Shir Agha told Xinhua.He blamed the enemies of peace, a ...

  • Nawaz Sharif calls Pakistani Taliban for peace talks

    Pakistan's presumptive prime minister Nawaz Sharif called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government on Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.Nawaz Sharif said 'terrorism' was one of the most serious problems plaguing the country and any offer by the Pakistani Taliban to talk 'should be ...

  • Endgame Afghanistan living in the fear of the Taliban

    Kabul: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai is in India to seek economic cooperation but the focus this time is likely to be on security.The Afghan MPs, Opposition leaders, former intelligence chiefs and police commissioners have told NDTV that they want more than developmental aid from India.They would like India to player a much bigger role post-2014, when Western troops will exit ...

  • Bomber kills 14 at Afghan provincial council

    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people, including a prominent provincial council chief, outside the council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed ...

  • Military Memo Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security

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