Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told a South Asia summit that extremism and terrorism in all forms, as well as its sponsorship and funding, should be banned. Speaking Tuesday at the summit of the eight-nation South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation in India’s capital of New Delhi, Karzai warned, “It is …
Read More »New party challenges Karzai dominance
 Dubai: As Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai takes centre stage in the Indian capital New Delhi as the newest member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), his opponents back home have launched a broadside against him by forming a political party that brings together all his main …
Read More »Children dead in suicide raid on Afghan army, Taliban hangs ‘spies’
Nine people, five of them children, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army convoy in Afghanistan, according to local police. Elsewhere the Taliban publicly hanged three men after accusing them of spying for British troops. With the approach of spring, violence has surged in Afghanistan in …
Read More »Freed British resident talks of hopelessness at Guantánamo
The brother of a London man freed from Guantánamo Bay after four years of imprisonment yesterday told of his family’s joy at finally being reunited with their loved one. Bisher al-Rawi returned to British soil late on Friday, four and a half years after being seized in the Gambia and …
Read More »Brown boosts credentials in flying visit to front line
Anthony Browne, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown enhanced his image as a prime-minister-in-waiting by making an unannounced one-day visit to British troops in Afghanistan and telling them that they were fighting on one of the “front lines against international terrorismâ€. The Chancellor made his first trip to the country accompanied …
Read More »Taliban deploy thousands of suicide bombers: commander
By Saeed Ali Achakzai Apr 2, 2007 — SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Taliban suicide bombers have been deployed across Afghanistan to attack Western troops and the government, the group’s military chief said on Monday. Following last year’s violence, the worst since the Taliban’s ouster in 2001, this year …
Read More »Talibanii, Statele Unite si resursele din Asia Centrala
La mijlocul anilor ’80, presedintele Reagan nu mai ostenea sa aduca laude “luptatorilor desculti pentru libertate”, sustinandu-i deschis pe curajosii razboinici care luptau impotriva invadatorului sovietic, sfidand “imperiul raului”. Astazi, despre originea miscarii talibane, despre bazele ei ideologice si sociale sau despre ascensiunea sa la putere in Afganistan se scrie …
Read More »Brown praises ‘courage’ of troops
Chancellor Gordon Brown has told UK troops in Afghanistan they are fighting on one of the “frontlines against international terrorism”.Mr Brown is visiting Camp Bastion, Helmand in the south of the country to meet military commanders and local political leaders. During the surprise visit, he praised troops for their “great …
Read More »Ø³Ù¾Ù†ØªØ§ از تبادله خبرنگار ايتالوي با پنج طالب اظهار تاس٠كرد
داکتر رنگین دادÙر سپنتا وزیر خارجه اÙغانستان از تبادله یک خبرنگار ایتالوی با پنج تن از سران طالبان توسط دولت ابراز تاس٠کرد Ùˆ Ú¯Ùت كه وزارت خارجه در این کار دخالتی نداشته است. آقای سپنتا این سخنان را روز پنج شنبه در همایش رسانه ها Ùˆ جامعه مدنی ابراز …
Read More »Taliban suicide bomber kills four civilians
 Kabul: A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated a bomb yesterday near the car of a senior Afghan intelligence official in a central Kabul business district, killing four civilians. The target of the attack, Kamaluddin, who heads an intelligence department, was among 12 wounded in the attack, the latest …
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