Category: South East Asia

Taliban Rejects Al-Qaeda Presence in Afghanistan

Taliban spokesman says they will not allow any group including al-Qaeda to exploit and use Afghanistan’s territory against other nations. Taliban has rejected al-Qaeda presence in Afghanistan weeks after the Afghan security forces during an operation killed a senior leader of the network Abu Mohsin al-Misri in a Taliban-controlled area in Andar district of central Ghazni province.

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Wolesi Jirga to summon senior officials, including Saleh, over university attack

Members of the Afghan Lower House of Parliament (Wolesi Jirga) on Wednesday said they will summon a number of high-ranking officials to appear before them and answer questions over the recent spate of violent attacks in Kabul – specifically the attack on Monday on Kabul University.

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Kabul University attack is the most ignorant type of war: Afghan Ulema Council

The Ulema Council of Afghanistan on Wednesday condemned Monday’s attack on Kabul University and labelled it as the “most ignorant type of war”. The council also called on government to immediately lift restrictions on security forces and allow them to take urgent action against the perpetrators.

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Taliban ‘could have used drone’ in Kunduz attack

In what could be a “new method of attack”, an explosion in the Kunduz governor’s compound on Sunday could have been carried out by a drone, the New York Times reported Monday.

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One insurgent killed so far in ongoing Kabul University siege

Police said early Monday afternoon that so far at least one insurgent has been killed in the Kabul University attack. The siege, which has been ongoing for at least two hours, started just after 11am when insurgents detonated explosives at the entrance of the university. An unknown number of them then stormed the facility and have reportedly been holed up […]

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Officials condemn violent attack on Kabul University

The Presidential Palace (ARG) along with other high-ranking officials, including Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, have strongly condemned the attack on Kabul University which started on Monday morning.

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India: Northeast Border Disputes

Decades-old inter-state border disputes, which have the potential to provide new spaces to terrorist formations, threatening the tenuous peace in India’s troubled Northeast, have once again come to the fore.

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Turmoil in Helmand

Several parts of Nawa and Nad Ali Districts of Helmand Province were cleared of the Taliban in the ongoing operation by Afghan Security Forces (SFs), the Ministry of Defense said on October 28, 2020. The operation was launched on October 26, in these two districts as well as in Lashkargah city, the capital of Helmand, to retake the areas that […]

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Baku Warns Of Fighting ‘To The End’ Amid Claims More Civilians Shelled In Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued more dire warnings over the ongoing fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh on November 1 as he and other senior officials met with a senior visiting delegation from staunch ally Turkey.

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Pakistan to upgrade status of part of Kashmir: PM Khan

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government would give provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan, the northern part of the larger Kashmir region.

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