Thaindian News:
By Smita PrakashGeneva, Nov.21 (ANI): India is to get state of the art surveillance gear as part of its counter-terror cooperation with US.Both countries are expected to move forward on counter-terrorism initiatives, the scop (Read More)
Pakistan-World-The Times of India:
Taliban militants blew up an empty school in a tribal town in northwest Pakistan severely damaging the building, officials said. (Read More)
New York Times:
The Americans hope the militias will encourage an increasingly demoralized Afghan population to take a stake in the war against the Taliban.
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Thaindian News:
Islamabad, Nov 21 (DPA) At least 14 militants and six soldiers were killed Saturday in the latest fighting in the ongoing military operation in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, the army said.Nearly 30,000 troops (Read More)
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Islamabad, Nov 21 (DPA) Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack on their camp in the troubled northwestern borderlands, while the forces killed six militants in retaliatory fire, officials said Saturday (Read More)
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Islamabad, Nov.21 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that it is important to follow the military action in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with an ‘aggressive’ development programme to prevent (Read More)
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Peshawar, Nov.21 (ANI): North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti has blamed ‘foreign powers’ for the recent wave of terror attacks in the region.Interacting with journalists after a funeral prayer (Read More)
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London, Nov. 21 (ANI): The former governor of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Sher Mohammed Akhundzada, has admitted that he encouraged up to 3,000 of his followers to join the Taliban following his dismissal under internatio (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
The US has come perilously close to calling Pakistan a terrorist state by alleging that the country's spy agency helped move the Taliban leader to Karachi. (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said. (Read More)
Thaindian News:
Lahore, Nov 20 (IANS) The Human Rights Committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association has condemned suicide attacks and the use of violence against innocent lives, saying there is no justification in Islam for terrorism.“ (Read More)
New York Times:
The area of the attack is believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
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Thaindian News:
Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has helped Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US drones might target him. (Read More)
Thaindian News:
Islamabad/Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit, wh (Read More)
India Times:
Apart from the presence of Taliban, Afghanistan has the highest infant mortality rate in the world and 70% of the population lacks access to clean water. It is especially dangerous for girls, the Unicef said. (Read More)
Thaindian News:
Washington, Nov.20 (ANI): Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the Washington Times reports.According to the newspaper, tw (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
Fearing that Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan's ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, the US media reported. (Read More)
Thaindian News:
By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 20 (IANS) Noting that a “cross border fertilisation of terrorism” is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the tw (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Given the record of Goldman Sachs (as detailed in McClatchy's five-part series), AIG, Halliburton and other supposedly upright U.S. corporations, it's a tad arrogant to complain about the corruption of other countries. Endemi (Read More)
SWJ Blog:
Mr. Obama’s Task - New York Times editorial.There is no doubt that the prospects for success in Afghanistan are so bleak right now because former President George W. Bush failed for seven long years to invest the necessary tr (Read More)