US military has little evidence against US serviceman behind the Afghan massacre US authorities lack proof of what occurred the night a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, the lawyer representing the serviceman said on Tuesday. “I’m very concerned now they don’t have much proof of anything,” attorney John Henry Browne told Reuters after […]
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Pakistan all set to take a decision regarding its policy towards the United States of America A joint session of Pakistan’s parliament tasked with reviewing and formally resetting troubled relations with the United States could start as early as Monday, an official said. “I think that this particular subject will be considered by the parliament […]
Talibans offered to form alliance with the with Government It has been said by Pakistan Government officials that the names of the banned organisations will be removed from the list if they stop their activities across the country. Interior Minister Rehman Malik noted, “If the proscribed organisations assure us that they have closed down their militant […]
Taliban vow revenge for Kandahar massacre The Taliban on Monday vowed revenge for a US soldier’s killing spree of 16 villagers in Afghanistan that has sparked a new crisis in already fragile Afghan-American relations. The US soldier walked off his base, heavily armed and with night vision equipment, and broke into three village homes before […]
Pakistan likely to revise its list of banned terror groups The government of Pakistan on Monday invited the terror groups in the country, including Taliban, to take part in peace talks and offered that their names would be removed from the list of banned organisations, if they closed down their militant wings in the country. […]
A suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a rival insurgent group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 23 of its supporters in an outbreak of factional fighting, an official said. Elsewhere in the Afghan border region, fighting between security forces and militants claimed the lives of 41 others, an especially deadly day that showed the […]
A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the gates of a NATO base and airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, triggering a blast that killed nine Afghans, officials said. The Taliban claimed the attack was revenge for U.S. troops burning copies of the Koran. The bombing in the city of Jalalabad followed six days […]
Pakistan called for the first time on the Afghan Taliban to start talks with the Kabul government on Friday, lending diplomatic momentum to an American-sponsored peace process that is anchored in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, but which experts say is still advancing at a perilously slow pace. After a phone discussion with the […]
The first of its kinds, Pakistan publically made an appeal to Taliban and other militant groups to join an intra-Afghan process for national reconciliation, urging their leadership to take part in peace talks with the Afghan government. In response to a request made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, this significant move was made was taken […]
Imran Khan, the Pakistan’s new political sensation and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has said that talks with the Taliban is only solution to end war on terror, saying he would holds negotiations with them if he is given mandate to do so. While interviewing to Gulf News, the cricket-turned politician observed, “I can talk […]
Afghanistan holding talks with Taliban inside Pakistan Afghan officials are holding talks with the Taliban in Pakistan, the head of a provincial peace council in the insurgency’s heartland Kandahar said on Tuesday, in a possible signal that Islamabad is boosting its support for Afghan peace efforts. Kandahar peace council head Ata Mohammad Ahmadi said that […]
Peace talks with Taliban; a frustrated Karzai vows for direct links Kabul: (Tuesday, February 21, 2012) feeling left out after USA establishing exclusive links with the Taliban and inviting them for negotiations in Qatar, a frustrated Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, has invited the Taliban leadership for direct peace talks with his government. Expressing […]
