Lahore, Sep 20: A long-delayed plan to send dozens of US military advisers to Pakistan to train the Pakistani Army in counter-insurgency could begin in a matter of weeks on a training base north of Peshawar under a new agreement.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Joint Chiefs Chairman Michael Mullen as saying that the US and Pakistan had cleared the remaining obstacles to the arrival of the advisers.
Washington has been urging the Pakistani military to accept the training team for months, the report said. However, Pakistan has resisted such advice, and asked for additional weaponry and equipment that the paper said “some US officials believe is best suited for its standoff with regional rival India”.
Kabul- A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Afghanistan while six Taliban militants, including a rebel commander, were killed in clashes with Afghan police and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday.
The coalition soldier was killed Friday in a roadside blast in western Afghanistan, the US military said in a statement.
The statement did not reveal the location of the explosion or the nationality of the deceased soldier, but most of the soldiers serving under the command of coalition are from the United States.
Kabul, Sept. 19 : At least nine million Afghans face the prospect of acute food shortage this winter due to a poor harvest this year.
This looming food crisis in Afghanistan could force many villagers relocate, says a New York Times report.
The crisis has been generated by the harshest winter in memory, a drought across much of the country, problems of deteriorating security, pressure of returning refugees and the effects of rising world food prices.
The failure of the Afghan government and foreign donors to develop the country’s main economic sector, agriculture, has compounded the problems, officials say.
They warn that the food crisis could make an already bad security situation worse.
Kabul- Afghan commandos and US-led coalition forces killed two militants and arrested six others, including a Taliban commander, in an eastern town close to Kabul, the US military said Friday.
The combined forces conducted a raid on the house of a Taliban commander and his associates in Surobi district, some 50 kilometres east of Kabul city, on Thursday, a US military statement said.
Kabul - NATO forces fatally shot a civilian in southern Afghanistan after the truck he was travelling in failed to stop as it approached a military convoy, the alliance said Friday.
The incident happened Thursday night near Kandahar city, the capital of the province of the same name, when a truck approached a NATO convoy head-on, a NATO statement said.
Sydney - An Afghan district governor and his two bodyguards were killed in a gunfight involving Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) said Friday.
Rozi Khan Barekzai, governor of the Chora district in Uruzgan province, was killed Wednesday in Trin Kot, the provincial capital.
He was a mujahedin commander during the war against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and had also served as provincial police chief after the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
"It is not possible at this time to determine that he was killed by ADF fire," the statement said.
Kabul- A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Afghanistan while six Taliban militants, including a rebel commander, were killed in clashes with Afghan police and coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday.
Kabul- Afghan commandos and US-led coalition forces killed two militants and arrested six others, including a Taliban commander, in an eastern town close to Kabul, the US military said Friday.
Kabul - NATO forces fatally shot a civilian in southern Afghanistan after the truck he was travelling in failed to stop as it approached a military convoy, the alliance said Friday.
