ISLAMABAD (AP) – Last week’s suicide bombing at a Kabul education centre killed as many as 52 people, more than twice the death toll acknowledged by Taleban officials, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press (AP) on Monday. Dozens more were wounded in Friday’s blast, making it one of the bloodiest attacks since […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taleban has been released, his family said yesterday, as a Taleban drug lord jailed by the United States (US) was also freed and returned to Kabul. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who had spent more than a decade in […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) – The United Nations (UN) yesterday called for Afghanistan’s Taleban rulers to re-open schools to girls, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful”. The UN said it is increasingly concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country’s economic crisis […]
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (AFP) – A bomb killed the former head of a pro-government militia and seven others in northwestern Pakistan, officials said yesterday, in an attack claimed by the Taleban. The blast happened on Tuesday night in Kabal town in the Swat valley, which was largely ruled by the Pakistan Taleban during a 2007-2009 insurgency. […]
KABUL (AFP) – A blast which ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in the Afghan capital killed at least 21 people and wounded more than two dozen others, police said yesterday. The number of bombings across Afghanistan has declined since the Taleban returned to power in August last year, but several attacks – many […]