Tag: Taliban
Rescued Canadian hostage praises Pak security forces
TORONTO: Rescued Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle Sunday highly lauded the role of Pakistani security forces in the release of his family from the captivity...
Here’s how Pakistan Army rescued Canadian-American couple from Haqqani militants
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army said the captors of a Canadian-American family held by a Taliban-linked group fled on foot after troops shot at their vehicle's...
Tehmina Janjua urges talks between Afghan govt, Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Addressing a meeting held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Contact Group on Afghanistan on Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, emphasising Pakistan’s stance on...
Ashraf Ghani says ‘Afghan president has worst job on Earth’
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani minced no words as he detailed the challenges facing his war-ravaged country.
“This is the worst job on Earth,” Ghani told the British Broadcasting Corporation...
Trump policy set to hinder anti-polio war in Pakistan
Continuing threats from the Trump Administration are likely to increase anti-American sentiment in Pakistan that will have a direct impact on the war against polio in the...
US continues to blame ‘Pakistan’s behaviour’ for Afghan war failure
WASHINGTON: A top US military officer on Tuesday said US would not be able to “attain our objectives” in Afghanistan, where American forces have...
Trump pushing Afghan president for closure of Taliban office in Qatar:...
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is pushing the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, to close a Taliban mission in Qatar, which has been a channel for dialogue...
US should negotiate with Taliban, says Imran
Rejecting the allegations of United States that Pakistan harbours militants, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that the US should negotiate...
Taliban shut down clinics in southern Afghan province, official says
KANDAHAR: The Taliban has shut down dozens of clinics in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan in the past few days, officials said, amid...
Ghani says successful foreign policy secured Afghan national interests
President Ashraf Ghani says Taliban should know that they cannot win on the battlefield
KABUL: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has said that the country...
Three suspected militants killed in Kurram Agency drone strike
US drone attacks inside Pakistan have become rare over the past few years.
Afghanistan’s lost movies, being made available through digitisation
When the Taliban charged into Afghanistan’s state-run film company in the mid-1990s intent on destroying all the movies, Habibullah Ali risked everything to save...
More than 40pc area of Afghanistan not in control of Afghan...
Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Zahid Nasrullah Khan has said more than 40 per cent area of Afghanistan was not in control of the Afghan...
Afghanistan to double special forces in fight against Taliban
CAMP MOREHEAD, AFGHANISTAN: Commandos armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers aim at a tank hundreds of metres away, fresh recruits to Afghanistan’s most skilled fighting force...
US fighter pilots in Afghanistan prepare for more air strikes
The number of U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan has already dramatically spiked since Trump took office in January, from 1,074 in all of last year to 2,244 as of August 20 this year.
Taliban suicide bomber strikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand, kills five civilians
The attack occurred a little over 24 hours after Trump cleared the way for thousands more US soldiers to be sent to Afghanistan, reversing earlier pledges to pull out.
Afghanistan wants more US help in fight against Taliban, IS
Afghanistan wants the United States to send more forces to help meet shortfalls in the battle against the Taliban and the militant Islamic State...
