ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan wants Pakistan to issue passports to Taliban cadres to facilitate their transit to Arab countries for peace talks, according to an Afghan diplomat.
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Despite the collapse of the Qatar peace initiative earlier this year, Taliban negotiators and their families are still living in the Arabian Gulf state. And several more Taliban cadres are in the process of shifting to Qatar and other states.
Saudi Arabia has also invited several Taliban leaders for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage as part of its possible role in the Afghan peace process.
According to Pakistan’s Ambassador in Kabul Muhammad Sadiq, Islamabad was to facilitate the transit of Taliban leaders to Qatar.
Saudi Arabia has also invited several Taliban leaders for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage as part of its possible role in the Afghan peace process.
According to Pakistan’s Ambassador in Kabul Muhammad Sadiq, Islamabad was to facilitate the transit of Taliban leaders to Qatar.
ALGIERS: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Algeria on Monday, with the political crisis in neighbouring Mali a central focus of her scheduled talks with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointed Salman Khurshid as his new foreign minister (FM) as he brought seven new faces into cabinet Sunday in the biggest reshuffle since his 2009 re-election.
GAZA CITY( Palestinian Territories): Seven rockets fired from Gaza crashed into southern Israel on Sunday without harming anyone, police said, hours after an Israeli air strike killed a Hamas militant.
WASHINGTON: The US State Department said the issue raised over stopping the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan at Toronto airport has been solved, Geo News reported Monday.
KADUNA: A suicide attacker drove a car bomb into a Nigerian church on Sunday, sparking fierce reprisals that saw a Christian mob burn a man alive in a day of violence that killed at least 10 people and wounded 145.
HARIPUR: Four students were killed when their van ran into a tree in Haripur Monday, Geo News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Monday departed on a three-day official visit to Cairo where she will meet the top leadership of the newly formed Egyptian government.
At least ten suspected militants were killed and six others injured Monday when Pakistani gunship helicopters pounded suspected militant hideouts in Bara Tehsil of Pakistan’s restive Khyber tribal region, officials said. The assault followed an earlier clash in the Akakhel area of Bara Tehsil which had left one soldier dead and three injured, the officials added. According to the officials, armed militants ambushed a security convoy leading to a deadly clash between the militants and security forces. The clash resulted in the death of a soldier while thee others were wounded. Following the clash, security forces assisted by gunship helicopters targeted militant hideouts in Akakhel area, killing ten militants and injuring six others, the official sources said. Officials said security forces also destroyed four militant bases and claimed to have arrested 15 suspects as the offensive continued. Meanwhile, another soldier was also killed in a road side bomb explosion in Tehsil Bara’s Shalobar area during a search operation, the officials added. The reports could not be independently verified as journalists have limited access to Pakistan’s remote tribal areas. Khyber is among Pakistan’s seven tribal districts near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown insurgents and are alleged to be strongholds of Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives. Like this:Be the first to like this.
KABUL: A senior Taliban commander and 24 of his fighters were killed in a battle with Afghan security forces in a northern village which also left five police dead, officials said Thursday.
Hundreds of homes have been burned in the fresh outburst of unrest in Rakhine state, where Buddhist-Muslim clashes have killed at least 95 people since June and displaced tens of thousands, according to the authorities.
DAMASCUS: Syria and most rebel chiefs have agreed to a truce this week, peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said, but the main armed opposition group and Washington remained wary of any commitment from Damascus.
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LOS ANGELES: A US judge jailed the so-called “Millennium bomber” for 37 years Wednesday for plotting to bomb Los Angeles airport on New Year’s Eve 1999, but rejected calls for a life sentence.
American Muslims overwhelmingly support President Barack Obama [ Images ] in his re-election bid, according to a new poll.
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police arrested two militants stated to be members banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) here on Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: Islamic Relief, a UK based relief and development organization, has planned distribution of sacrificial meat to approximately 36,000 families (250,000 individuals) in Kurram Agency, Nowshera, Charsadda districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Naseerabad, Jaffarabad – Balochistan, Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Neelum districts of Azad Kashmir respectively, said Adnan bin Junaid, Acting Country Director Islamic Relief Pakistan.
Srinagar: In an embarrassing development for the armed forces, an armyman was shot dead and three others injured after they were mistaken for fleeing militants by another unit of troops patrolling in the Budgam district on the outskirts of Srinagar on Tuesday.As per reports, after receiving a tip-off about the movement of militants through the area, the security forces had set up a vehicle check post at Chattergam chowk, 20 kilometres from Srinagar, in Chadoora area of Budgam.