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Afghan interpreters who served with British forces to get UK visas
About 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan will be offered the chance to live in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed on Wednesday. Prime Minister David Cameron had initially sought to discourage the interpreters from settling in Britain for fear of…
Afghan president: U.S. and Taliban ‘in talks on a daily basis’
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday criticised the Taliban for holding daily talks with the United States as they also launch suicide attacks that kill civilians and children. The Islamist militants deny re-opening talks after they broke off tentative contact with the US in Qatar in March last year due…
Pakistan’s Taliban bans ‘obscene films’ and Viagra
The Pakistani Taliban have warned shopkeepers in a popular market to stop selling “obscene films” and Viagra-style male potency pills. Shopkeepers told sources on Monday that they found handwritten pamphlets containing the warnings after opening on Saturday in Karkhano market on the edge of the northwestern city of Peshawar. “Selling…
Peace talks with Taliban haven’t begun, says U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
There are no significant peace talks under way with the Taliban, the US ambassador to Afghanistan has said, despite years of western and Afghan government efforts to broker a political end to the decade-long war in the country, and some recent signs of progress. James Cunningham, the US Ambassador in…
Police trap reveals how Afghan ‘insider attacks’ work
The Taliban believed Beyar Khan Weyaar was the perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given a rare insight into suicide bombing tactics. Weyaar, a low-ranking police officer in the eastern province of Paktika, was approached in November…
Muslim scholars and clerics plan January trip to Kabul to condemn suicide bombings as un-Islamic
Suicide bombers in Afghanistan have shown little restraint: Wedding parties and even mosques and children have witnessed gruesome targeting by the Taliban against civilians. But as attacks soared in the summer and fall, killing scores of civilians every week – including at least 40 Muslim devotees… …
Doctors hopeful for Pakistani girl shot by Taliban
A 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban could make a “good recovery”, doctors treating her in a British hospital said Tuesday. Malala Yousafzai was spending her first full day in Britain after she was flown into Birmingham Airport on Monday on board an air…
Harris-Perry: Taliban shooting created ‘a thousand Malalas’
Melissa Harris-Perry closed her show Sunday with a statement supporting Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old girl who has become a folk hero in Pakistan following her shooting at the hands of the Taliban, directing some of her statements toward the men who tried to kill her. “You may have harmed Malala…
Shot Pakistani girl still on ventilator
AFP - A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban remained on a ventilator in hospital Saturday, as people continued to pray for her recovery, the military said. The shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for the right to an education, has been denounced worldwide and by the…
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