Afghanistan

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] KHYBER AGENCY / ISLAMABAD: Kabul has apparently refused to send to Islamabad its national security adviser and foreign minister, invited for discussion in the wake of the recent clashes between the security forces of the two neighbouring countries after Pakistan started building a gate at Torkham border as …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] TARIN KOT: The Taliban are using young boys as sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi” — paedophilic boy play — to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults said. Even as ISIS …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] KABUL – Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said Pakistan does not want good relations between India and Afghanistan and wants “no bilateral trade and no access to Central Asia for India” which is unacceptable for Afghanistan. In an interview with BBC Urdu Thursday, Karzai claimed that India is …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday agreed to consider peace after the US intervention, official sources said, as unprovoked firing from across Afghan border continued on Wednesday while Islamabad again summoned Afghan envoy to register its protest. Officials in Foreign Office said Afghan Ambassador Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal telephoned …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] WASHINGTON  – US State Department on Wednesday has urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to reduce tension at the Torkham border. During a press briefing in Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that they are watching the tensions at Torkham border very closely and are in touch with officials …

[/tie_full_img] [/tie_full_img] Seddique Mateen is an Afghan national who fantasises about becoming the war-torn country’s president in warped online videos. A string of deranged internet clips appear to show Seddique urging his “warrior brothers in the Taliban movement” to “rise up”. Seddique, who claims to be running for the Afghan …