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  • A friend comes calling

    President Hamid Karzai will be in India for a two-day visit, discussing issues that are of importance to both countries. This would be his twelfth visit here, and this in itself, is testimony to the importance of this relationship that both need to nurture constantly. There are however concerns that affect both countries, arising from the impending drawdown, as it is called, of U.S. forces next ...

  • Karzai Seeks Indian Military Aid Amid Tensions with Pakistan

    KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, 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 Sharif is set to take office ...

  • 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 ...


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  • Suicide Bomber Kills 11 in Afghanistan

    Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 11 people, including a local senior politician. Police said Monday's blast outside the Baghlan provincial council building killed the head of the provincial council, Rasoul Mohseni. Some of his bodyguards were among those killed or the several people wounded. The ...

  • Neither heat nor gloom ... Afghan post office delivers

    As the Afghan government struggles to develop, the post office has quietly managed to become one of the nation's most efficient institutions - and with extremely limited international ...

  • Cargo plane crashes in E. Afghanistan killing 7

    KABUL, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Monday's cargo plane crash which took place in Bagram district, eastern Afghan province of Parwan claimed the lives of all seven people aboard, a provincial source said Tuesday. Bagram, lying some 50 km north of Afghan capital Kabul, is the main military base of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The sources also said that five of the victims were Americans. Police ...

  • Afghan suicide attack kills at least 11

    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 11 people including a senior local politician, police said.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing a police uniform, blew himself up in the centre of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan ...

  • Suicide bomber kills 8 at Afghan province council

    KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside a provincial council building in the country's north. A lawmaker says the council chief and at least seven others were ...

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