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Canadian-American family, kidnapped in 2012 in Afghanistan, recovered by Pakistan Army

October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 News Desk

Canadian Family Recovered by Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army said on Thursday that it had recovered “safe and sound” a family of foreign hostages from the custody of a terrorist outfit after it received and acted on intelligence shared by the United States (US). An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement today said the hostages included a Canadian man, his American wife and their three children. The hostages were recovered “through an intelligence-based operation by Pakistani troops and intelligence agencies.” “They were captured by terrorists from Afghanistan in 2012 and kept as hostages there,” the ISPR handout…

افغانستان سے ابھی بھی خطرہ موجود ہے، ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر

October 5, 2017 News Desk

ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر میجر جنرل آصف غفور نے کہا ہے کہ افغانستان سے ابھی بھی خطرہ موجود ہے اس لیے مغربی سرحد پر فوج رکھ رہے ہیں، ہم اپنی افواج کو ابھی بھی مغربی سرحد پر رکھنے پر مجبورہیں۔ راولپنڈی میں نیوز بریفنگ کے دوران ان کا کہنا تھا کہ ہمیں پُرامن پاکستان دکھائی دےرہا ہے،مغربی سرحد پر جو فوج ہے اس کا کچھ حصہ چھاؤنی میں واپس لےآئےہیں۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ ایران کےساتھ مغربی سرحدپرسیکورٹی کےاضافی اقدامات کیےجارہےہیں، پاکستان میں کسی دہشت گرد تنظیم کے…

Bomber attacks foreign military convoy in Afghanistan: officials

September 16, 2017 News Desk

A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan on Friday wounding several soldiers, officials said. The Taliban claimed the attack which Kandahar provincial governor spokesman Fazal Bari Baryalai told AFP “totally destroyed” one of the vehicles carrying Romanian soldiers in Daman district. A spokesman for Nato’s Resolute Support train and assist mission confirmed a “small number” of soldiers were wounded. In a WhatsApp message to journalists Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said “seven invading forces” were killed. The militants routinely exaggerate…

Suicide bomber kills three near Kabul cricket stadium

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 News Desk

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a cricket stadium in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing three people including a policeman and wounding five others, police said. The attacker detonated the bomb after he was stopped at a security checkpoint by suspicious police as he walked towards the Alokozay Kabul International Cricket Ground where a match was under way. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest in a series of deadly assaults in the city. “The security forces by sacrificing themselves have prevented…

Suicide bomber kills 13 in Helmand: Afghan official

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 News Desk

A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded several more in an attack on a convoy of Afghan soldiers in Helmand province late Sunday, an official said. “A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled car as the Afghan National Army convoy passed a small market in Nawa District of Helmand,” Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP. He added that civilians and forces personnel were among the dead while more than a dozen others had been wounded. A source working at a nearby hospital told…

افغان طالبان امریکا اور افغانستان کا مسئلہ ہیں،وزیر خارجہ

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 News Desk

وزیر خارجہ خواجہ محمد آصف نے امریکی الزامات کو بے بنیاد قرار دے کر مسترد کردیا ،ان کاکہناتھاکہ امریکا نےکئی بار پاکستان کو استعمال کیا اور مصیبت ہمارے گلے میں ڈال کر چھوڑ چکا ہے۔ امریکی صدر ٹرمپ اور افغانستان میں امریکی فوج کے کمانڈر جنرل جان نکلسن کے بیان پر ردعمل میں خواجہ محمد آصف نے کہا کہ امریکا افغانستان میں 16 سالہ ناکامیوں کی ذمے داری پاکستان پر نہ ڈالے، افغانستان کا 40 فیصد حصہ اب بھی طالبان کے زیر اثر ہے۔ ان کا مزید کہناتھاکہ افغان طالبان…

Trump to address nation on new Afghan strategy tonight

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 News Desk

President Donald Trump will announce his decision on America’s strategy in Afghanistan in an address to US troops and the nation Monday night, almost 16 years after the war began. The US leader will “provide an update on the path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia” in an address to be delivered at 9pm (0100 GMT Tuesday) from the military base at Fort Myer southwest of the capital, the White House said in a statement. The US president, fresh from a nearly three-week-long working vacation at his New…

افغانستان: شدت پسندوں کا گاؤں پر حملہ ، 40 افراد قتل

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 News Desk

افغانستان میں شدت پسندوں نے ایک گاؤں پر حملہ کرکے 40 عام شہریوں کو قتل جبکہ متعدد افراد کو اغواء کرکے اپنے ساتھ لے گئے۔ افغان میڈیا ذرائع کے مطابق ہفتے کو رات گئے شدت پسندوں نے افغانستان کے صوبے سرپُل کے مرزا اولانگ گاؤں میں دھاوا بولا اور 40 افراد کو قتل کر دیا۔ گورنر سرپل محمد ظاہر وحدت نے بتایا کہ زیادہ تر گاؤں والوں کے سرقلم کیے گئے جبکہ بعض کو فائرنگ کر کے ہلاک کیا گیا۔ انہوں نے یہ بھی بتایا کہ شدت پسند اپنے ساتھ…

Pakistan urges comprehensive political plan for Afghan peace

August 4, 2017 News Desk

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday hoped that the ongoing US review would result in a comprehensive political strategy to promote reconciliation and peace in Afghanistan and the region amid reports that the Trump Administration is in a fix to evolve a workable plan. As the US administration is finalising its plan for Afghanistan and South Asia, a US delegation led by Ambassador Alice G Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, held talks with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua at the Foreign Office. The US delegation is currently on tour…

Thousands in Afghanistan protest mosque attack

August 3, 2017 News Desk

Thousands of protesters chanted slogans against the militant Islamic State group Wednesday as they carried the coffins of victims of an attack targeting a Shia mosque that killed 33 people in the western Afghan city of Herat. Afghan mourners offer funeral prayers near the coffins of victims following the attack. ─ AFP Up to 5,000 angry mourners, including relatives of the dead, congregated near the site of Tuesday’s suicide bomb attack as IS claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity targeting the minority community. “Death to Daesh (IS)!” and “Down with…

US exploring withdrawal option for Afghanistan

August 1, 2017 News Desk

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration, which until recently appeared committed to sending more troops to Afghanistan, is now said to be considering another extreme option: withdrawal. On Monday, even the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing Washington think tank which has provided several experts to the team reviewing the administration’s Afghan policy, commented on media reports that the United States was turning away from Afghanistan. “Keeping the US flag flying in an increasingly important and geopolitically challenging part of the world is in America’s interest. Now is not a time to turn our…