Two personnel of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were today killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Indian road construction workers in south west Afgh..Read More
Indian Army will impart training to Afghan Army in counter-insurgency operations. It was decided during a meeting between the Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and his Indian counter-parts he..Read More
India Tuesday ruled out any military involvement in Afghanistan, which is facing Taliban resurgence once again, as the defence ministers of the two countries met here Tuesday."India has been helping i..Read More
India should wake up to the consequences of the "disastrous policy" being pursued by the US in Pakistan and Afghanistan, former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on Tuesday."The US policy i..Read More
The imposition of emergency in Pakistan has not put any pressure on Taliban in Swat district. Taliban have taken over police stations in Matta, Khawazkhela and Charbagh. This scribe visited the Matta ..Read More
A suicide bomber killed some 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a group of visiting Afghan parliamentarians in northern Afghanistan, the director of the local hospital said. The suici..Read More
Taleban fighters in Pakistan's northern district of Swat have paraded 48 paramilitary troops they captured in fighting this week. The soldiers said they surrendered when their positions on a hill..Read More
The first 160 Royal Marine Commandoes from 40 Commando are deploying to Afghanistan today, 26 September 2007, 'raring to go and with morale sky high,' said their Commanding Officer. The rest..Read More
The US will consider the use of military force, if necessary, to stem Al Qaeda's growing ability to use its hideout in Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks, a White House aide said on Sunday.US P..Read More
The Pakistan Government has dismissed a US suggestion of striking potential terrorist targets in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Pakistan-Afghan border, terming it "irresponsibl..Read More
India has sent a 75 men strong contingent of special Indo-Tibetan Border Police commandos to serve in Afghanistan where terrorist activities from Pakistan is seeing a marked rise for the past 18 month..Read More
NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 60 insurgents Friday night along the border with Pakistan, the military said on Saturday, while local officials in the south reported that a NATO airstr..Read More
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, India on Monday accused "vested interests" for scuttling New Delhi's role in rebuilding war-ravaged Afghanistan.Expressing concern over the resurgence of Taliba..Read More
Pro-Taliban militants have transformed a once-bustling community in northwestern Pakistan into a desolate city under siege.After militant raids on government buildings, businesses and a school, Tank&#..Read More
With Taliban activities in Afghanistan witnessing a rise, India is sending Indo-Tibetan Border Police commandos to beef up security of its personnel engaged in reconstruction work there.At least 134 h..Read More
The heaviest clash so far between Afghan and Pakistani forces erupted Sunday when Pakistani forces attempted to install an outpost in eastern Afghanistan.There were conflicting reports on the death t..Read More
The death of Dadullah represents the biggest setback to the Taliban command since the insurgency began, after its Islamic militia government was toppled by U.S. backed forces in 2001. "He was killed l..Read More
A Pakistani army camp in North Waziristan tribal region was attacked by rockets fired by suspected Taliban militants, sparking off a massive retaliatory fire by the military, a news report has said.Te..Read More
A bomb struck a bus taking Afghan soldiers to work in the capital Kabul early today, killing the driver and wounding 14 people, police said.The bomb was hidden in a cart parked at the side of the road..Read More
Four people were killed and three others wounded when missiles fired from Afghanistan struck a seminary in Saidgi area of North Waziristan on Friday, residents and officials said.According to some res..Read More
Indian television news channel 'NDTV' reports that a team from the Indian Army will be actively training the Afghan National Army (ANA) later this year. The team is heading to Kabul in the u..Read More
Afghan Government reveals that nearly 200 Taliban fighters have been surrounded by Afghan and NATO forces in a village in the Chora district of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province.Several Taliban lead..Read More
The Afghan government has said its border security force clashed with Pakistani troops following the illegal fencing of the border by Pakistan, The News newspaper reported Friday.The clash erupted Thu..Read More
Nine policemen were killed and 25 others wounded in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan, while six Taliban and an army soldier were killed in a clash in southern Ghazni province, officials said ..Read More
A new and updated Congressional Research Service report has said that the outcomes of the Bush administration's policies toward Pakistan since 9/11, "while not devoid of meaningful successes, hav..Read More
Commander of US Central Command Admiral William J Fallon called on President General Pervez Musharraf here on Saturday and discussed with him the situation in Afghanistan and the war against terrorism..Read More
A senior officer of Pakistan's top intelligence unit and his subordinate were killed in the continuing violence in the country's autonomous North West Frontier Province.Pakistan's ISI i..Read More
Afghan police killed five Taliban suspects and wounded seven others after a group of militants attacked a convoy of supplies for US-led coalition forces in southern Ghazni province, the Interior Minis..Read More
Fierce fighting has raged between tribal and foreign militants in South Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas since Monday, killing more than 100 persons, according to repo..Read More
In a report carried by "Associate Press" it is said that suicide bombers are crossing the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan with increasing frequency, launching attacks directed against foreign mi..Read More
Pakistan signs its third “peace deal” with the Taliban in the tribal agencies. The much anticipated Bajaur Accord – a peace agreement purportedly with the local tribal leaders of the Mamoond tribe and..Read More
The United States is possibly looking at a post-Musharraf administration in Pakistan, if media reports are any indications."If Mr Musharraf were to fall to an assassin's bullet ... It is unlikely..Read More
Senior Asia Times Correspondent Syed Saleem Shahzad has made startling revelations of the Musharraf Regimes new pact with the Taliban.The Pakistani establishment has made a deal with the Taliban throu..Read More
Asserting a right to self-defence, American forces in eastern Afghanistan launched artillery rounds into Pakistan to strike Taliban fighters who attack remote US outposts, the commander of US forces i..Read More
Leading Pakistani Newspaper 'Daily Times' reports that Pakistan on Wednesday conveyed its concern to NATO over the killing of one of its soldiers in cross-border firing in North Waziristan, ..Read More
Pakistan rejected as absurd on Thursday a claim from a Taliban spokesman arrested in Afghanistan that the Taliban's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, was living in Pakistan under the protect..Read More
Around 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants, including foreigners, were killed when the Pakistani military launched an aerial attack on their hideouts in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan ..Read More
Al Qaeda's leaders are holed up in a secure hide-out in Pakistan, from which they are revitalizing their bruised but resilient network, U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte said on Thursday. I..Read More
That the Taliban power stands resurrected is a fact now. At the same time, the 'war on terror' is also showing signs of fatigue. It has already come to a halt in the north-western tribal exp..Read More
As the security situation deteriorates in Afghanistan with a rise in Taliban-instigated violence, India has given non-lethal military equipment worth $3 million to shore up the Afghan National Army (A..Read More
Pakistan's claim of putting the best effort to deny the Taliban safe haven in its land has got a major jolt with the International Crisis Group (ICG) saying that Islamabad's ambivalent appro..Read More
A suicide bomber detonated himself in an army training camp in Pakistan's northwest today, killing 42 soldiers, in what appears to be a retaliation to the deadly army strike on a religious semina..Read More
Several thousand ethnic Pashtuns rallied in a Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Tuesday, accusing Pakistan of meddling in Afghanistan's affairs. The protesters, Pakistani Pashtuns and some..Read More
Taliban activities along the Afghan-Pakistan border region have increased in the two months since Islamabad struck a controversial deal with militants, suggesting the problem remains unresolved, accor..Read More
British troops pulled out of a troubled southern Afghanistan district today after reaching an agreement with tribal elders, while fighting killed 44 suspected Taliban militants across the country, off..Read More
France plans to withdraw around 200 special forces from southern Afghanistan at the start of next year following a recent surge in violence, reported the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on Sun..Read More
Apprehensions expressed by President Hamid Karzai and NATO commanders in Afghanistan over the September 5 armistice between tribal elders in North Waziristan and the federal government might be unders..Read More
Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to tighten security cooperation and to hold meetings of tribal leaders to encourage them to go after militants, Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington said on Thur..Read More
According to newspaper reports, NATO - the US led western military alliance, wants Indian troops for its missions in volatile regions like Afghanistan and Kosovo. NATO officials here at Brussels, its ..Read More
A leading French regional newspaper quoted a French secret service document on Saturday as saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last m..Read More
In what could be the most troubling development in the War on Terror since it began, Pakistan has released nearly all of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists it has had in custody since the US invasion..Read More
A United States Democrat lawmaker has come down heavily on Pakistan saying that Islamabad could not be 'wholly trusted' as a legitimate supporter of US goals and interests in South Asia, unt..Read More
General Pervez Musharraf has said that terrorism has been eliminated from Pakistan, but added that extremism still prevailed in the country and efforts were on to eradicate it.Addressing the Pakistani..Read More
In an operation launched by Afghan coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, a known al-Qaeda facilitator and six other suspected al-Qaeda associates were detained, coalition forces said.The commander ..Read More
Pakistani newspaper reports quotes two American officials acknowledging that U.S. Special Forces have been authorized to follow and hunt for Osama Bin Laden within Pakistan.Reports of such an arrangem..Read More
Pakistan army troops will remain in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan despite a recent peace accord with local militants allied to the Taliban and al-Qaida, government officials said Saturday."Nob..Read More
President General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan went to Afghanistan this week to view first hand that nation's efforts in the war against terror. Musharraf spoke eloquently about the "common enemy..Read More
With the recent Pakistan-Taliban ceasefire along the Afghan border, General Abizaid seems to have gotten what he wanted from Musharraf - Pakistani withdrawal opening up the restive tribal regions to A..Read More
The United States said on Wednesday that it welcomes the 'peace deal' between Pakistan Army and Taliban and would closely monitor the implementation of the deal which is in the shared intere..Read More
Pakistan is in no mood to capture America's most wanted man Osama bin Laden. Pakistani officials told ABC News that bin Laden would be spared from being arrested if the dreaded terrorist decides ..Read More
A major Afghan-NATO offensive killed more than 200 militants in southern Afghanistan Sunday, the alliance said. Four Canadian soldiers were killed.The casualty counts - which if confirmed represent on..Read More
Pro-Taliban tribals have extended a ceasefire with Pakistani forces for two weeks in a restive tribal region on the Afghan border, Government officials said on Saturday as reported by Reuters.The trib..Read More
Agencies report that three American soldiers were killed and three others injured in clashes in north eastern Afghanistan after terrorists attacked an American patrol with RPG's and small arms fi..Read More
NATO and Afghan forces killed 18 Taliban guerrillas in a raid on a village in southern Afghanistan, where violence has escalated after NATO troops took over from U.S. forces.In another province in the..Read More
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Sunday many Taliban fighters are crossing from Pakistan to stage attacks inside Afghanistan.Alliot-Marie said the NATO-led force assuming command i..Read More
A nine-day anti-terror military exercise involving Kyrgyzstan, US, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan was wrapped up on Tuesday in Bishkek, said reports reaching here from the Kyrgyz cap..Read More
Kabul: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has welcomed the decision of Britain's government to send more troops to the post-Taliban nation, the NATO-led International Security A..Read More
The US has asked Pakistan to deploy three divisions of troops along the Pak-Afghan border in addition to the forces present to check Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorism against the Hamid Karzai government...Read More
Islamabad: Claiming that India wants to send peacekeeping troops to Afghanistan, the Pakistani media has criticised Islamabad for not doing anything to prevent the move. Pakistan should not all..Read More
Washington: Taliban forces fighting US troops in Afghanistan have grown stronger and more sophisticated, and are directing operations from neighbouring Pakistan, a senior US commander said on W..Read More
Islamabad: Pakistan has said it would deploy 10,000 more troops along its border with Afghanistan, in addition to the estimated 80,000 already stationed there, to control illegal cross-border m..Read More
Kabul: Forty-eight Taliban militants were killed by coalition and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. Heavy fighting between the militants and the forces lasted for over four hours in Panjwy..Read More
Kabul: Coalition forces attacked Taliban militant camps in southern Afghanistan, killing about 45 insurgents, coalition officials said Saturday.On Friday, Afghan and coalition forces surrounded..Read More
Kabul: Two foreign soldiers and 14 rebels have been killed in the latest clashes in the most serious spell of violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001, military officia..Read More
Kandahar: Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed 37 suspected rebels, including a relative of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in three separate battles across southern Afghanistan, an Afghan arm..Read More
New Delhi: Speculation that India might be asked to dispatch troops to Afghanistan to buttress the ISAF presence there has apparently rung alarm bells in the Pakistani establishment. According..Read More
Kabul:Afghan troops surrounded and killed 13 Taliban fighters after their convoy was ambushed by the guerrillas, an army commander said on Friday.The ambush took place on Thursday evening in Ur..Read More
New Delhi: Senior military officials from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US Tuesday reviewed the ongoing military cooperation in the war against terror. This was the 17th meeting of the triparti..Read More
NATO has warned Pakistan about an anti-Taliban offensive which may reach up to its border with Afghanistan and go beyond unless it takes its own initiative to contain the Taliban leadership.With the b..Read More
Kabul: NATO will double the number of troops in southern Afghanistan when it takes over security from US forces there next month to deal with the worst rebel violence since the fall of the Tali..Read More
Kabul: More than 50 Taliban guerrillas were killed in a US-led air strike on a mosque in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Monday, Reuters reported.Several “Taliban leaders” were am..Read More
Islamabad: The latest news on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is that he is supposed to have entered Pakistan from Afghanistan. Daily Times quoted the privately owned Geo Te..Read More
Kabul: Spokesman of the US-led coalition forces Wednesday acknowledged that remnants of the former fundamentalist Taliban regime have secured footholds in parts of the post-Taliban country. �..Read More
Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf is under US pressure to deliver on his promise to curb Al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants operating along the Pak-Afghan border.Diplomats said that US defence se..Read More
Kabul: A senior British officer accused Pakistan of allowing the Taliban to use its territory as a "headquarters" for attacks on western troops in Afghanistan as insurgents struck on multiple f..Read More
New Delhi: New Delhi has expressed its concern over the safety of Indians in Afghanistan to Pakistan following claims the Taliban has received orders from Pakistan's ISI. A Taliban spokesm..Read More
Peshawar: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says his country's battle against al-Qaeda in the lawless tribal region has almost been won. He says he is more worried about the rise of Tale..Read More
Islamabad: Pakistani and Afghan foreign ministers will meet regularly to avoid any misunderstandings and reinforce their cooperation in fighting terrorism, officials said Monday. 'Afghan F..Read More
New Delhi: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked Pakistan to clarify after a Taliban commander claimed that Pakistani intelligence had a hand in the beheading of an Indian engineer in Afghani..Read More
New Delhi: Indian engineer Suryanarayana's abduction and assassination by Afghanistan's Taliban militia may have finally alerted Indian and Afghan governments to the need for more security f..Read More
Dushanbe: Three French Mirage-2000 jetfighters will soon deploy in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan in support of coalition anti-terrorist operations in neighbouring Afghanistan, diplom..Read More
Islamabad: The Pakistani security forces are battling not only foreign 'jehadis' in strategically North and South Waziristan but also homegrown Talibans who are carrying out public ex..Read More
In a major setback to anti-Taliban operations, the US Pentagon has decided to pull out of Afghanistan, mainly from Southern Afghanistan, by July, and seek more withdrawals by end 2007.According to Wes..Read More
THE situation in Pakistan's tribal badlands of Waziristan is fast spiralling out of control. Despite tall claims of the Pakistan army of causing heavy casualties in the ranks of the jihadis, ther..Read More
Islamabad: Pakistan, Afghanistan and US forces have launched joint exercises at a military base in the country's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), said a government official. The exerci..Read More
Although the killing of Indian telecom engineer K. Suryanarayana has sent shock waves across India, one should remember that Indians are not the sole or special targets in Afghanistan. They are among ..Read More
In an attempt to secure the release of slain engineer K Suryanarayana, it has been learnt that the Ministry of External Affairs tried to contact the Taliban network through Indian sources in Afghanist..Read More
New Delhi: Yet another kidnapping of an Indian engineer in Afghanistan has taken place even as the government of President Hamid Karzai is considering New Delhi's proposal of deploying its..Read More
Kabul: An Indian engineer working for an Afghan mobile phone contractor has been kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, several independent sources said today. The engineer was abducted in Sharjoy..Read More
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's four-day state visit to India from April 9-12, 2006 was the fourth since he was appointed Chairman of the Afghan interim administration in December 2001. His visit..Read More