Afghanistan says negotiating release of helicopter hostages
Afghan Talibans—File Photo. KABUL: The Taliban may free a group of mainly Turkish hostages captured when their helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan...
View ArticlePakistan must play positive role in Afghanistan: Nato
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gives a press conference during a Nato Foreign Affairs ministers meeting at the Nato headquarters in Brussels on April 23, 2013. -AFP Photo BRUSSELS:...
View ArticleRoadside bomb kills three policemen in Afghanistan
Taliban Militants. —AP File Photo KABUL: A remote-controlled roadside bomb killed three police officers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, an attack the Taliban claimed as the opening round of their...
View ArticleSeven killed in US cargo plane crash in Afghanistan
-File Photo KABUL: Seven crew members of a US-run cargo plane were killed on Monday when their plane crashed shortly after take off from Bagram air base near the Afghan capital Kabul, the cargo...
View ArticlePakistan summons Afghan envoy over border clash
The clash was sparked over construction at the 1893 British mandated Durand Line which is recognised by Pakistan, but not by Afghanistan. -File Photo ISLAMABAD: An Afghan border policeman was killed...
View ArticleBomb aimed at targeting Nato supply defused
-File Photo PESHAWAR: The law enforcement agencies foiled a sabotage bid in Khyber Agency as a roadside IED planted to target Nato containers was defused, while in a seperate incident the bomb disposal...
View ArticleAfghan roadside bomb kills 13 civilians: officials
Afghan policemen inspect the site of a blast where a bomb went off.—AP (File Photo) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as...
View ArticleGunmen kill Nato driver in Peshawar: officials
—File Photo. PESHAWAR: Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of Nato containers in a northwestern town in Peshawar near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said. The...
View ArticleTwo Nato containers torched in Mastung by militants
QUETTA: Militants torched two Nato containers in Mastung district of Balochistan, levies said Sunday, June 2. Munir Ahmed, a levies official told Dawn.com that two containers were attacked on their...
View ArticleSeven Taliban dead in Kabul airport attack
Afghan police arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul on June 10, 2013.—Photo by Reuters KABUL, Afghanistan: Insurgents on Monday attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport, which...
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