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#Pakistan News About 50 Indian personnel, including some six diplomats, pulled from consulate, security sources say, as Taliban fighters clash with government troops in their former bastion in southern Afghanistan. An Afghan security personnel stands guard at the site of a car bomb attack in Kandahar on July 6, ...

India07:32 GMT 11.07.2021Get short URLAfghan security agencies, in a recent estimate study said that over 7,000 fighters from the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have joined forces with the pro-Islamist military organisation Taliban. The groups are reportedly trying to take control of Southern Afghanistan that is strategically connected to ...

Diplomats, ITBP personnel return to Delhi as Taliban make inroads towards city. As the Taliban’s claims about taking Afghan territory grow, India has decided to temporarily close its consulate in Kandahar, sending a special Indian Air Force flight to evacuate about 50 diplomats and security personnel of the Indo-Tibetan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban forces on Friday penetrated Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, in a new phase of a sweeping insurgent offensive that has captured territory across the country since May 1, when U.S. forces began withdrawing.The insurgents had been encroaching on Kandahar city, the capital of the province of ...

In Kandahar, Afghanistan, a UNICEF-supported polio vaccinator marks a girl's finger with ink to indicate she has received the vaccine. © UNICEF/Frank Dejongh After the wild poliovirus was officially eliminated in Africa in August, Afghanistan and Pakistan became the only countries in the world where polio remains endemic. A highly infectious, ...

At least 70 Taliban commanders were killed in Helmand and Kandahar by Afghan forces in operations carried out in retaliation to the attacks started by the group more than a month ago. According to Kabul’s ministry of interior affairs, 152 pakistani fighters were also killed in the operations in ...

KABUL (Sputnik) - A heavy clash between the Taliban* movement and the Afghan security forces took place in Kandahar's Arghandab district, and the joint Afghan forces launched air and ground operations against the insurgents, the provincial police spokesman, Nasir Barakzai, said on Wednesday.A total of 28 Taliban* "insurgents were ...

KABUL, Afghanistan At least 14 members of a family have been killed in two landmine blasts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, officials said on Friday.The incident took place in the Spin Boldak district along the border crossing with Pakistan, police spokesman Jamal Nasir told Anadolu Agency.He said a van and a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan At least 14 members of a family have been killed in two landmine blasts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, officials said on Friday.The incident took place in the Spin Boldak district along the border crossing with Pakistan, police spokesman Jamal Nasir told Anadolu Agency.He said a van and a ...

https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105267/70/1052677046_0:167:3500:2135_1200x675_80_0_0_cfa6cd104f449ce1b6788a880eed03e0.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngSputnikhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pnghttps://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008281080300541-bomb-blast-in-afghanistans-kandahar-kills-13-civilians-source-says/KABUL (Sputnik) - An explosion in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan, killed 13 civilians on Friday, a security source said."This morning, a bomb exploded on Tunas vehicle in the Loy Karez area of Spin Buldak district, killed 13 civilians, including women ...