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Father of Afghanistan cricket captain abducted near his home
KABUL - Gunmen kidnapped the father of Afghanistan's national cricket team captain near his home in an eastern city, officials said Thursday. There has been no ransom demand since Mohammad Nabi's 60-year-old father Khobi Khan was abducted from his car in the city of Jalalabad, cricket board president Shazada Masoud said. Police are searching for Khan, but there have been no leads or ...
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Afghan cricketers father kidnapped
Nabi 's 60-year-old father, Khobi Khan, was abducted near his home in the city of Jalalabad.Cricket board president Shazada Masoud said that police are assisting but there have been no leads or any contact since Mr Khan was taken from his car on Tuesday.He said Nabi told him his family has no personal disputes and he is shocked at the abduction. Kidnapping is fairly common ...
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Obama to limit drone strikes restart Guantanamo closure
Obama will say Thursday. The president will also announce new limits to unmanned combat drone strikes, the officials said of the program that has been central to White House efforts to combat terrorism. Obama's 2 p.m. speech at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington will lay out how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal ...
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Azerbaijan ready to increase peacekeepers in Afghanistan – official
A total of 94 Azerbaijani peacekeepers serve in Afghanistan at the moment. The statement came from Vice Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Ziyafat Asgarov in an interview with ...
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Pak Taliban other militant outfits behind MQM leaders killing Malik
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital along with his security guard by unidentified gunmen inside Jamia Masjid on Monday. Malik said outlawed ...
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Violence crisis Cabinet meeting after deadly London attack
Anti-Muslim rioters fought police and 10 Downing St. called crisis Cabinet meetings after men raging about Islam hacked a soldier to death on a London street. About 250 supporters of the English Defense League street protest movement, all wearing black ski masks and some in paramilitary dress, threw rocks and bottles at police in London's southeast Woolwich district. The rioting occurred ...
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It is too early to comment on Talibans peace talk offer says US
The US has said it is too early to comment on Pakistani Taliban's peace talks offer to Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif."It would be premature for us to comment on any potential negotiations," a State Department spokesperson told PTI when asked about peace talks offered by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which is at war with the country's government."The United ...
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Pakistan summons Afghan envoy over border post firing
Pakistan on Thursday summoned Afghan Charge d'Affaires and lodged protest over unprovoked firing on a border check post, the Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Ministry said that two soldiers were injured in firing by Afghan troops late Wednesday. "The Afghan Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office today for conveying protest of the Government of Pakistan on an ...
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Afghan protest over womens rights
Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women.The protest came days after conservative politicians' vehement opposition blocked an attempt to cement the decree's provisions in law.Most of international force that ousted the Taliban is now preparing to withdraw by the end of next year and activists fear an erosion of women's rights will follow if hardliners pressure the ...
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Afghan’s ties with India not at the cost of Pak
Nawaz Sharif has talked up his desire for better ties with India. "We have a wishlist that we have presented to India. Now it is upto them to decide," Karzai said during an interaction with a group of journalists on Wednesday, a day after he held talks with Prime ...
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Afghanistans Helmand Province Sees Fresh Clashes Conflicting Claims
Fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan government forces has erupted in a highly-volatile corner of Helmand province. Afghan officials claimed victory Wednesday in southern Helmand province, saying they turned back a series of attacks by Taliban militants in Sangin. A spokesman for the provincial governor estimated the number of attackers at close to 1,000, including Arabs and Chechens ...
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Afghan interpreters risk being failed by bureaucracy
Downing Street has denied reports that its scheme is open only to interpreters who lose their jobs as troops are withdrawn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Afghanistan Inside The Head Of The Giant Buddha
A Fort of Nine Towers . He describes for anchor Marco Werman his family’s efforts to flee the war in the early 1990s, and how they resorted to living in a cave behind the giant Buddha statues in the historic district of ...
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Lifeline for Afghan interpreters
An Afghan man sits next to a British Army soldier of Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, at a joint check point in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. REUTERS/Shamil ...
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Afghan cricket captains dad abducted
UNKNOWN gunmen have dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials ...
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UK Denmark to give Afghan interpreters visas
The United Kingdom and Denmark will give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked for British and Danish troops in Afghanistan visas to live in the UK and ...
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Britain offers visas to its Afghan interpreters
LONDON (Reuters) - Around 600 interpreters who serve alongside British soldiers in Afghanistan are to be offered visas to live in the UK, in a softening of the government's previous policy of encouraging them to stay in the country after British troops ...
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Afghanistan Suicide bomber kills anti-Taliban village elder 3 others in busy market
KABUL - A suicide bomber on foot killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in a busy marketplace Wednesday in central Afghanistan, the latest in a wave of assassinations and bombings. Habibullah Khan was killed along with two bodyguards and a civilian bystander in the afternoon attack in Ghazni province's Moqur district, police said. At least 14 civilians were ...
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Why Afghanistan is nervous about the US troop withdrawal
A US soldier secures the area where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Next year will mark the end of NATO's combat mission in Afghanistan. By December 2014 the US and other foreign troops still here will be ...
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Afghan suicide blast kills 7 officials
A TEENAGE suicide bomber killed seven people in central Afghanistan when he targeted local fighters who battle against Taliban insurgents, officials say. The attacker detonated himself in a market place in Ghazni province, two days after another bomber struck outside government buildings in the north of Afghanistan, killing 14 people, including a provincial politician. "At around 5pm, an ...
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Imran Khans PTI seeks pro-Taliban clerics help to initiate peace talks with outfit
Peshawar, May 22 : The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has sought the help of an elderly pro-Taliban cleric to initiate peace talks with the militants, party officials have ...
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Pakistan influence on Taliban important for peace process Karzai
New Delhi, May 22 : Asserting that Pakistan is an important element in maintaining peace in Afghanistan, visiting President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday it would be difficult to fight terrorism without Islamabad's cooperation because it has influence over ...
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101st brigades among last in eastern Afghanistan
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan - When the 4th Brigade Combat Team from the 101st Airborne Division took control over three key provinces in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, they were likely the last American combat brigade in the area now that the U.S. is handing over responsibility for security to the Afghans.On Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost Province, leaders of the ...
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India will do all in its power to promote Afghan stability
India said on Wednesday it will do all within its means to promote stability inAfghanistan after visiting President Hamid Karzai said he had given a military "wishlist" to the Indian ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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