Afghan commander linked to Haqqani network killed by drone strike in Pakistan
AFP | A mid-level Afghan commander of the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani Network was killed Wednesday in a drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said, days...
‘Save the Children’ office in Afghanistan attacked by gunmen
AFP | Gunmen blasted their way into Save the Children's office in Afghanistan's restive east on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said, in an ongoing attack...
US Afghan strategy won’t work: Laments ex US Army Colonel
Jamal Hussain | A point paper by Lawrence Sellin, titled “U.S. Afghan strategy will be governed by events in Balochistan” has been published by the...
Kabul hotel attack death toll rises to 22
AFP | At least 22 people are now known to have died when Taliban militants slaughtered guests at a luxury Kabul hotel, Afghan officials said...
Pak forces destroy radio tower along Pak-Afghan border for transmitting TTP messages
News Analysis | A radio tower along the Pak-Afghan border was destroyed by the Pakistan armed forces to stop the transmission of hostile, anti-state propaganda...
Kabul can’t survive without US assistance: Ghani
News Analysis | “Kabul cannot survive without US military and financial assistance”. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confessed that the Afghan national army wouldn’t survive 6...
US urges Pakistan to move against Haqqani network
News Analysis | Ambassador Alice Wells concluded her visit to Pakistan and in a statement released by the US embassy, she emphasized that US wants...
Pakistan must maintain ties with neighbours to become self-sufficient
Mahnoor Saleem | Since last August, air was patently cold between Washington and Islamabad because it was then for the first time, when President Trump...
Afghanistan – A view from Pakistan
K. Hussan Zia | President Trump and his cohorts are accusing Pakistan of perfidy for taking $33 billion in aid from the U.S and not...
IS operating in Kabul under noses of US forces
AFP | Middle-class Afghans turned jihadists have assisted the Islamic State group's expansion from its stronghold in Afghanistan's restive east to Kabul, analysts say, helping...
Pakistan warns US of backlash of potential Afghan offensive
News Analysis | According to sources, the United States plans on launching a two pronged offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan that would force them...
Afghanistan’s Managed Chaos: US Strategic Regional Designs
Adnan Qaiser | Winston Churchill held the view that Americans can be trusted to do the right thing; only after having exhausted all other alternatives....