Kabul, Feb 27 (IANS) Afghan forces launched retaliatory strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing at least 55 Pakistani soldiers and capturing two bases along with 19 posts, the Afghan Ministry of National Defence confirmed on Friday. The counter-attacks come amid escalating tensions along the border region.According to the Ministry, the attacks took place on Thursday night in response to Pakistan’s strikes on Afghan territory, which killed women and children. The retaliatory oper…
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Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s hostility towards Afghanistan is not about terrorism – as for Islamabad, terrorism has always remained negotiable – but the Taliban in Kabul acting like a sovereign authority – brutal, responsive, incompetent but independent, a report has highlighted. Taliban, it said, refused to take instruction, rejected hierarchy, and declined the role scripted for them in Pakistan’s strategic theatre. The report in ‘Counter Currents’ stated that nothing makes a patron ang…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) In what may further escalate Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions, Kabul on Wednesday announced that medicines imported from the neighbouring country will not be sold after February 9, urging traders to complete all related commercial transactions before the deadline, according to reports. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has stated that only 19 days remain before an earlier decision to this effect becomes operative, after which medicines imported from Pakistan will no…
Islamabad, Dec 29 (IANS) Pakistan’s ties with Afghanistan has deteriorated and reached to a lowest point in years due to constant recriminations, recurrent border skirmishes and a growing sense of strategic frustration in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir recent warning to Taliban that Kabul must choose between its ties with Pakistan and its alleged support for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) showcases Islamabad’s failing Afghan policy, a report has stat…
Kabul, Dec 29 (IANS) The Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict exposes the limits of China’s diplomatic ceiling — effective in financing infrastructure, sustaining political partnerships, and providing strategic cover to allied governments, but constrained when conflict management requires confronting allies, engaging fragmented actors, or dealing with nationalist politics resistant to “transactional solutions”, a report said on Monday. It added that unless China reconsiders the assumptions guiding i…