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  • 10 killed 14 injured in Taliban-coordinated attack in Kabul

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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 ...

  • Suicide bombers gunmen attack Kabul

    Suicide bombers and gunmen launched attacks on several targets, including a police station, in Afghanistan capital Kabul Friday evening, leaving casualties, a police source said. The serial bombings were not near the Indian embassy. The first blast took place at around 4.10 p.m. in Afghanistan's Shahrara area, reported Xinhua citing the source. The source said the obvious target of the attack ...


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  • Will a Sandhurst suffice for keeping peace in Afghanistan

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  • Afghanistans neighbours trying to split country Karzai

    In a meeting with Afghan Interior Ministry officials, President Hamid Karzai has reportedly warned that neighbouring countries are trying to split the country. He claimed that these countries have taken undue advantage of the situation in Afghanistan, and added that they always did things to meet their own goals. "Some countries don't want Afghanistan to have a proper system; many don't want ...

  • Mass balloon giveaway brings sudden smiles in violence-wracked Afghan capital

    KABUL - Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the city. Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda organized the "We Believe in Balloons" day. He says each balloon contains a written message of peace ...

  • Blast in mosque kills 12 people in eastern Afghanistan

    KABUL - Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people. Local official Qasim Desewal said Saturday that four civilians and eight militants died in the blast during evening prayers the night before in Ghazni province's district of Andar. He said that the Taliban had ...

  • Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the ...

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