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Afghanistan: Fuelling confusion, US cancels NATO flag-lowering ceremony
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 20 (ANI): The US on Friday cancelled North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) flag-lowering ceremony at the last moment amid questions over what the ceremony was meant to signify, according to three US Defence officials.
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Pakistan wanted 'reconciliation' but India 'did not reciprocate', claims F
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): Pakistan wanted "reconciliation" with India but the latter "did not reciprocate" and took measures that "vitiated the climate", claimed Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
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Fencing of Afghan-Pakistan border to be completed by June 30, says Pak int
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): The fencing of the 2,600-kilometer Afghan-Pakistan porous border will be completed by the end of June, Pakistani interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told the country's Parliament.
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Imran Khan rules out possibility of giving Pak military bases to US for ac
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it clear that the country would "absolutely not" permit any of its bases or use of its territory to the United States for any kind of action inside Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan appoints new security ministers as violence intensifies
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI/Xinhua): The Afghan government has appointed two new key security ministers amid growing insurgency and conflicts in the war-torn country, the Administrative Office of the Presidential Palace said in a statement on Saturday.
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Afghanistan registers 1,384 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 1,384 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of patients infected with the disease to 101,906 in the country, a statement of the Public Health Ministry said on Saturday.
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Taliban seize two districts in Afghanistan's north, 16 soldiers dead in cl
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Sixteen Afghan security force members are dead and 14 others were captured by the Taliban during clashes in northern Afghanistan, where two district centers have been seized by the radical movement, TOLOnews reported on Saturday.
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Taliban attack on northern Afghan city repulsed, vehicle bombing foiled
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kunduz [Afghanistan], June 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Taliban attack on northern Afghan Kunduz city Saturday has been repulsed and the terrorists fled away after suffering casualties, army spokesman in the northern region captain Abdul Razaq said.
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Imran Khan govt, Afghan NSA continue war of words on Pak ties with Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 19 (ANI): Pakistan once again hit out at Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib for what it called his "repeated impertinent and unwarranted remarks" and accused him of trying to "disregard and nullify" the progress made in the Afghan peace process
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Synergies between regional terrorist groups in Af-Pak region, internationa
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], June 19 (ANI): The synergies between regional terrorist groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and the international groups is a matter of concern as per a report by Centre d'analyse du terrorisme (CAT).
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Afghan students of Pakistan universities fear missing exams due to border
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 18 (ANI): Afghanistan students currently pursuing studies in Pakistani universities and who had returned home after their instituions shut due to Covid-19 spread have urged Islamabad to grant them special permits to re-enter the country in time to sit for examinatio
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Afghanistan security forces kill 258 Taliban terrorists in last 24 hrs
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 18 (ANI): As many as 258 Taliban terrorists were killed and 156 were wounded in the last 24 hours in military operations conducted by Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in several provinces across the country.
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