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US hands over Afghan district after ‘abuse’ row
Relations between Karzai and Washington were badly frayed recently as the bulk of Nato’s combat soldiers get ready to leave by the end of next year. — File Photo KABUL: The US military pulled out of a...
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Karzai meets Qatar emir during visit on Taliban office
Afghan President Hamid Karzai.—AP File Photo DOHA: Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks Sunday with the emir of Qatar during a visit to discuss opening a Taliban office in the Gulf state, as a...
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Nato containers torched in Balochistan’s Bolan district
— File Photo by AFP QUETTA: Unknown militants torched five containers, carrying back Nato supplies from Afghanistan to Port Qasim Karachi, in Balochistan’s Bolan district on Monday. Levies sources told...
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Isaf Commander meets Gen Kayani
Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.—File Photo RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen Asfhaq Parvez Kayani met with Isaf’s Commander Afghanistan General Joseph F Dunford on...
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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier
The attack occurred after the soldiers had secured the area for the meeting, but one of the US officials said the youth was not believed to have been a member of the Afghan security forces or in...
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Nato airstrike kills six in Afghanistan: officials
— File Photo by Reuters KABUL: An Afghan official says an airstrike by US-led forces has killed four policemen and two civilians in eastern Afghanistan. The official said on Thursday that the...
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Obama to host Mideast allies for talks on Syria
President Barack Obama —Photo by AFP WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will host leaders from key US allies Jordan, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the coming weeks amid turmoil in...
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Insurgent attacks kill six Nato personnel in Afghanistan
File photo shows a Nato soldiers patrolling in Afghanistan. AFP/File Photo ANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Six Nato personnel including a female US diplomat were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in...
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Afghan officials say bombs kill four in south
Ummar Zawaq, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, says a roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded two others in the Marjah district, on Thursday. — File Photo KABUL: Afghan officials say two...
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Afghan investigation finds 17 died in airstrike
Afghan President Hamid Karzai.—AP Photo KABUL: Both Taliban insurgents and the US military were to blame for an airstrike a week ago that killed 17 people, including a dozen children, during a fierce...
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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...
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Pakistan 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:...
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Roadside 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...
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Seven 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...
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Pakistan 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...
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Bomb 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...
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Afghan 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...
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Gunmen 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...
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Two 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...
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Seven 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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