Afghan Taliban chief not in Karachi: Pak govt (rediff.com)
Pakistan on Friday dismissed reports claiming Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta to Karachi, with the help of the Inter Services Intelligence, to avoid the possibility of being targeted by United States drones.”This is ridiculous to say the least,” Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters. He said there had been speculations about Omar’s presence in Pakistan ‘for …
NAVAIR delivers four new Mi-17 helicopters to Afghan National Army Air Corps (Defence Professionals)
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. | NAVAIR delivered four new Mi-17 helicopters to the Afghan National Army Air Corps (ANAAC) in Kabul, Afghanistan just sixty-five days after the order…
23 Taliban killed in Afghanistan clashes: police (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Afghan and foreign troops killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after the president pledged to take responsibility for security in his new five-year term, police said Saturday.
Karzai sworn in to second term as Afghan president (The World)
KABUL (AP) Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged today in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government s first term.
Five guards killed in attack on former Afghan warlord (Channel NewsAsia)
KABUL: A controversial former Afghan warlord who is now a lawmaker escaped unhurt after a roadside bomb ripped through his convoy on Friday, killing five of his bodyguards, police said.
LIVESHOTS: Karzai and the U.S. Backing a Winner?- Afghan Lawmaker Narrowly Escapes Assassination (Fox News)
KABUL AFGHANISTAN Afghan President Hamid Karzai is, perhaps, basking in the warm Friday Kabul sunshine and certainly the warm afterglow of his inauguration to a second term.
Pakistan Denies Mullah Omar Is In Karachi (INO News)
(RTTNews) – Thursday, Pakistan dismissed a U.S. media report that Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta–capital of Balochistan Province–to Karachi with the help of its intelligence agency, the ISI, to avoid the possibility of being targeted by U.S. drones.
