Tag: Afghanistan

As tough climbs go, there are few more gruelling than getting to the top of 24,580ft (7,492m) Mount Noshaq - the highest mountain in Afghanistan.It's something that Welshman James Bingham discovered when he led a part Welsh, part American, team up it. The ultra-marathon runner and expert mountaineer summited ...

The Pakistani deep state is pushing the Haqqani Network to increase its stake in so-called Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) to retain its leverage on Afghanistan irrespective of the on-going peace process and maintain plausible deniability in future terror attacks in Af-Pak region, according to senior counter-terrorism officials.According ...

The Pakistan Army on Thursday said it was aware of the threats to the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and security measures were periodically enhanced to deal with the emerging dangers. Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi, Army Spokesperson Major General Babar Iftikhar said, "The security ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed the Afghan grand assembly’s proposed release of some 400 key Taliban prisoners, a key demand from the warring group for the start of the much-awaited intra-Afghan dialogue.During a farewell meeting with outgoing Afghan Ambassador Shukrullah Atif Mashal in the capital Islamabad, Foreign Minister ...

KABUL, AfghanistanAfghanistan on Wednesday confirmed at least five new cases of poliovirus amid the resumption of the vaccination campaign.Dr. Mohammad Sidique, a Health Ministry official, told Anadolu Agency all new cases are from the southern Kandahar and Zabul provinces, particularly in the Taliban-held areas.He said due to the coronavirus ...

At least one person was killed and six others were injured after an explosion in Turbat bazaar on July 21. (File photo: Reuters)A powerful bomb blast at a market in a Pakistani town bordering Afghanistan on Monday killed at least five people and injured 10 others, police said. The ...

Source link www.rferl.org The Pakistani military said one of its soldiers was killed and two others wounded by cross-border shelling from Afghanistan. In a statement on August 6, the Pakistani military said members of its Frontier Corps came under heavy mortar shelling and firing from Afghanistan a day earlier. ...

(JALALABAD, Afghanistan) — Afghan forces said they retook a prison in the country’s east on Monday afternoon, following an hours-long battle a day after the facility was targeted by the Islamic State group in an attack that killed 29 people. The prison is believed to be holding hundreds of ...

Issued on: 03/08/2020 - 13:46 At least 29 people were killed in a raid on an Afghan prison claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, officials said Monday, as the country waited to see if a government ceasefire with the Taliban would rupture after its formal expiration. Fighting finally ...

With the US military pull-out from Afghanistan well under way, Beijing and Washington are becoming locked in a fierce competition via the war-torn country for potential new trade and energy corridors linking Central Asia with South Asia and the oil-rich Middle East.The intensity of this connectivity competition has become ...