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The provincial Chairman of Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) was killed Wednesday in a drive-by shooting in northern Kunduz province, the latest in a string of targeted killings against government officials and local leaders in the war-torn country, said a provincial official. “The head of IEC in Kunduz engineer Mohammad Aman succumbed to his wounds, […]
A suspect is dead after a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, a senior Navy official said Monday. Conflicting reports emerged about whether there was another shooter. Ed Zeigler, director of public affairs for Naval District Washington, said earlier Monday that two suspected shooters were “down,” but the senior Navy official could not confirm whether […]
The Afghan election commission on Monday kicked off the registration process of candidates for the coming presidential polls, officials said. “The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) formally began the nomination process for candidates of the upcoming presidential and provincial councils elections on Monday Sept. 16, 2013,” the IEC said in a press release. According to […]
Officials in Afghanistan said Sunday that up to 27 people were killed and 20 others injured in coal mine collapse incident in northern Afghanistan’s Samangan province. “The rescue operation is concluded. As many as 27 bodies of local workers have been recovered since Saturday afternoon when the mine collapsed. And 20 others were injured,”provincial […]
The United States will keep approximately 20,000 American and NATO troops in Afghanistan who will reside in nine different bases in different parts of the war-torn country, Chairman of the Pakistani Senate Committee on Defence, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed said on his return from Afghanistan after a 4-day on Friday. He said he was informed […]
Afghan Taliban say a group of heavily armed fighters Friday stormed the US consulate in western city of Heart, killing and injuring scores of foreign and Afghan troops. The US embassy in Kabul says all Consulate personnel safe and accounted for after complex attack on Herat consulate early this morning. Taliban in a statement claimed […]
A Stan American pastor has been arrested as he drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with kerosene-soaked Holy Qurans to a park, where the Satan had said he was planning to burn 2,998 of the Qurans to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Associated Press reported Sheriff’s deputies in Polk […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country will not slacken over the nation’s nuclear rights. Talking to a group of high-ranking clergymen in Tehran, Rouhani said that his “adminstration will not step back an iota over the inalienable (nuclear) rights of the Iranian people and will do its utmost to deal with the issue logically […]
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will work with Russia and other partners to work on a UN resolution making Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime give up chemical weapons. “I’ve spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies — France and the United Kingdom — and we will work together in […]
The Afghan Taliban have released Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, the member of parliament from Kandahar Province, in exchange for six of their prisoners. Kakar was abducted in eastern province of Ghazni last month. Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban spokesman, said in a statement on Saturday that the Taliban in Ghazni Province handed over Fariba Ahmadi to her […]
The armies of India and Pakistan fired on each other’s position on the line-of-control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region, Indian officials said on Saturday. The incident took place Friday evening in Mendhar sector of frontier Poonch district, around 185 km southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir. “Pakistani army violated ceasefire last […]
The United States has announced the launch of the Pakistan Reading Project to boost the reading skills of 3.2 million Pakistani children, the U.S. embassy said Friday. This project will fund improvements in reading instruction and reading assessment in grades one through five throughout the Pakistani public school system. The International Rescue Committee […]
