Washington, June 18 : The Pentagon has said that it would discourage Afghanistan from undertaking any missions in Pakistani territory and urged resolution of the issues through a tripartite mechani

Kabul - Afghan and NATO officials said they launched an operation to push out Taliban militants who recently overran several villages in southern Afghanistan, began on Wednesday.

Kabul,

Washington, June 16 : A top US expert on South

Islamabad - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Afghan ambassador to register a formal protest against President Hamid Karzai's threat to send troops into Pakistan to hunt down Talib

Kandahar, June 16 : Nearly 400 Taliban militants, who escaped from the Sarpoza Provincial Prison in Kandahar following Friday night’s brazen prison-break, are learnt to have arrived in their homes in nearby rural areas and even in Pakistani villages situated along the Indo-Afghan border, said a senior Taliban commander.

Canadian troops patrol these restive rural areas in Afghanistan, lying near Kandahar.

The Taliban commander said that most of the Taliban prisoners were first taken to villages in the turbulent Panjwai district, given money, and from where they scattered in different directions, including nearby Helmand province, Kabul and Pakistan.

“Many of them have gone to their homes,” the globeandmail. com quoted him as saying.