Everything you need to know about Kunar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Kunar: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Kabul, May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): An Afghan policeman was injured Tuesday morning when a roadside bomb struck a police van in the country's eastern province of Khost, a provincial official said.
Kabul, April 29 (Xinhua-ANI): Five Taliban militants have been killed and 21 others detained during operations during the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Sunday morning.
Jaipur, April 16 (IANS) At least three men were killed and 25 others seriously injured Monday when the bus they were travelling in overturned in Rajasthan's Kota district, police said.
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US ambassador to Kabus Ryan Croocker has said that Al-qaeda has returned to Afghanistan and is planning for another 9/11style
London, Mar 31 (ANI): Al-Qaeda has returned to Afghanistan and is planning to use the war-torn nation as a base to launch another 9/11-style attack on Western countries, a senior official has claimed.
Kabul, Feb 23 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has urged his country security forces "not to resort to violence" over the burning of Qurans at a US airbase near Kabul.
Kabul, Feb 23 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has urged his country security forces "not to resort to violence" over the burning of Qurans at a US airbase near Kabul.
Islamabad, Jan 31 (ANI): US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has said the NATO attack on the Salala check post that killed 24 Pakistan soldiers was not deliberate, and assured that such incidents will never occur again in future.
Islamabad, Jan 31 (ANI): US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has said the NATO attack on the Salala check post that killed 24 Pakistan soldiers was not deliberate, and assured that such incidents will never occur again in future.
Islamabad, Dec 26(ANI): Senior al-Qaeda members are feared to be moving to north Africa to open up a new front after being targeted in Pakistan.
New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI): When 9/11 happened, the Americans were livid and they descended on Islamabad, Rambo style, threatening General Musharraf with the famous "either you are with us or against us" threat.
Islamabad, Nov 28(ANI): The Pakistan Army today said that the NATO cross-border airstrike which killed 24 soldiers and wounded at least a dozen others can lead to serious consequences.
Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): An attack by NATO aircraft on Pakistani troops that killed up to 28 soldiers was an act of self-defence, a report has claimed.
Islamabad, Nov 12 (ANI): Military chiefs of the US and Pakistan met on Friday and agreed to increase cooperation to curtail cross-border movement of terrorists on the Pak-Afghan border.
Islamabad, Oct 22(ANI): The military commands of the United States and Pakistan have agreed to act against militant sanctuaries on the respective sides of the Pak-Afghan border, according to a news report.
Islamabad, Oct 19(ANI): The Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel have been deployed in areas bordering Afghanistan to stop cross-border militant attacks, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Athar Abbas has said.
Jalalabad/Chitral, Oct 18(ANI): Pakistani militants are exploiting a security vacuum left by US troops withdrawal from a swath of eastern Afghanistan to mount attacks inside Pakistan, according to a news report.
Lahore, Oct 6(ANI): The Pakistan Government has formally included the names of Mangal Baagh, Maulvi Fazlullah and Baloch separatist leader Brahamdagh Bugti in the list of the country's most wanted terrorists, according to a news report.
Peshawar, Oct 6(ANI): Maulana Fazlullah-led militants have agreed to negotiate with the Pakistan Government on the condition that it ensures the implementation of 'true Shariah' in the country's Malakand division.
Islamabad, Oct 5(ANI): The Haqqani network has started its efforts to push the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to negotiate a peace deal with the Pakistan Government, according to a news report.
Islamabad, Sept 29(ANI): A Pakistan's senior defence official has said foreign forces in Afghanistan were responsible for carrying out the recent cross border attacks in Dir and Chitral.
Islamabad, Sept 25 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the security of the US, NATO, and ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
Islamabad, Sept 17(ANI): Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed on a blueprint for cooperating on the Afghan reconciliation process.
Islamabad, Sept 16(ANI): Pakistan will ask Afghanistan to check cross-border intrusions by the Taliban, allegedly based in Kunar and Nuristan provinces, when top diplomatic officials from both sides open a fresh round of strategic talks today, a Pakistani newspaper has said.
Islamabad, Sept 16(ANI): Pakistan will ask Afghanistan to check cross-border intrusions by the Taliban, allegedly based in Kunar and Nuristan provinces, when top diplomatic officials from both sides open a fresh round of strategic talks today, a Pakistani newspaper has said.
Islamabad, Sept 15(ANI): The top brass of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has pledged to work closely with Pakistan in checking and combating Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants enjoying sanctuaries in some parts of the war-ravaged country.
Islamabad, Sept 13(ANI): The NATO has begun aerial surveillance of Pakistani Taliban sanctuaries in the border regions of Afghanistan, days after a leader of the terrorist outfit presented footage of several Pakistani boys who had been abducted by militants in the border tribal region of Bajaur.
Islamabad, Sept 9(ANI): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan is resisting Islamabad's pressure for a big push against terrorists in eastern Afghan provinces, where most of the Pakistani Taliban have set up sanctuaries, according to a newspaper report.
Islamabad, Sept 9(ANI): The Pakistan cabinet has asked Afghanistan to help secure the release of over 30 Pakistani children kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban and allegedly detained in Afghanistan's Kunar province.
Khar, Sept 7(ANI): The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has set conditions for releasing the 27 children it has been holding hostage for about a week.
Islamabad,Sep 5(ANI): Pakistani tribal elders are holding talks with Taliban militants in Afghanistan urging them to release young tribesmen, who were kidnapped during an outing along the border.
Islamabad, Aug 29(ANI): Pakistan should come out of the fallacy that surrounds the 'good Taliban' and 'bad Taliban' notion for its own survival, according to an editorial in a leading Pakistani newspaper.
Islamabad, August 28(ANI): Pakistan has lodged a formal protest with Afghanistan over Saturday's cross-border militant attacks emanating from Kunar and Nuristan against seven Pakistani check posts in Chitral, in which 25 security forces personnel were killed.
Washington, July 22 (ANI): Afghans are worried about Taliban resurgence in various provinces, as NATO troops begin to pull out of the country.
Islamabad, July 15(ANI): Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations Director General, Major General Athar Abbas has said terrorist havens exist in Afghanistan.
Kunar, July 12(ANI): Pakistan's cross-border attacks on militants in Afghanistan pose less of a tactical threat and more of a political threat for US soldiers in the war-ravaged country.
Islamabad, July 8(ANI): Afghan and NATO-led troops reportedly fired rockets into Pakistan's northwest tribal region of North Waziristan on Friday.
Islamabad, July 8(ANI): Afghan and NATO-led troops reportedly fired rockets into Pakistan's northwest tribal region of North Waziristan on Friday.
Islamabad, July 7ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has expressed 'serious concern' to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over cross-border raids carried out by militants from Afghanistan into Pakistani territory.
Islamabad, July 2(ANI): The Pakistan Army has said that a US pullback of troops from northeast Afghanistan over 20 months has let Islamic guerrillas establish bases in the area and carry out unusually huge attacks inside Pakistan in recent weeks.
Kabul, June 29(ANI): Pakistan has called for an end to the "blame game" and stressed the need "to take ownership for our own affairs" as the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan met in Kabul to review the security situation in the region amid Taliban insurgency and increased tensions over cross border shelling.
Islamabad, June 27(ANI): The Pakistan Army has denied allegations that it has fired hundreds of rockets into two eastern Afghan provinces over the past three weeks.
Kabul, June 27(ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of firing 470 rockets into two eastern Afghan provinces over the past three weeks, which reportedly killed 36 people, including 12 children.
Kabul, June 21 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's government has taken the step of executing two men convicted of slaughtering 40 people during a bank robbery in February, the first sentence of its kind to be carried out by the government since the end of the Taliban rule a decade ago.
Kabul, June 21 (ANI): The Hamid Karzai Government in Afghanistan hasormally complained to the Pakistan about its alleged shelling offghan villages.
Islamabad, June 20(ANI): Pakistan wants to include the insurgent groups besides the one led by Mullah Omar in peace talks with Afghan Taliban and has expressed reservations on the 'selective approach' adopted by the United States.
Khar, June 17(ANI): An overnight operation by Pakistani security forces and local lashkars against a cross-border attack in Bajaur Agency has ended after the army regained control of the area on Friday.
Kabul, Apr. 26 (ANI): The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday that they had killed the second most wanted insurgent in the country.
Islamabad, April 20(ANI): The United States is facilitating initial talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan on a bilateral water treaty as part of its efforts for trilateral water cooperation, according to informed sources.
Washington/Kabul, Apr. 19 (ANI): Monday's attack in Kabul suggests that the Taliban may have shifted from direct engagements with NATO and Afghan forces in favor of being able to infiltrate secure compounds and carry out suicide attacks.
Kabul, Apr 10 (ANI): General David Patraeus, the commander of NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, has said that he disagrees that the militant Islamist group al-qaeda is making a come back in the country.
Bagram Airfield (Afghanistan) Apr.4 (ANI): A team of female US Airmen has made history in Afghanistan, by planning, maintaining and flying the first all-woman combat mission from the Bagram Airfield.
Kabul, Mar 28 (ANI): Afghan officials have claimed that Taliban insurgent groups have abducted dozens of men who tried to join the police force in the north-eastern parts of the country.
Asadabad (Afghanistan), Mar. 12 (ANI): President Hamid Karzai has appealed to international troops to stop operations in Afghanistan.
Washington, Mar.3 (ANI): US Army General David Petraeus has apologized for an air strike in Afghanistan that killed nine civilians, after Afghan law makers warned that such raids was hampering efforts to end the war against the Taliban.
