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Afganistan: Several injured as Taliban, Pakistan Army clash on Durand Line
Fp Staff •The latest clash between the Taliban and the Pakistan Army on the Durand Line has taken place in the Dand-e-Patan area of Paktia province of Afghanistan
Taliban to finalise new Afghan govt soon, 80% Doha team likely to be in council
Cnnnews18 •The executives of this Council will lead the government and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is likely to head the political office, the Taliban sources said, adding that 80 per cent of this government will be from the Doha Taliban team.
Electoral compulsion behind Mamata's volte-face on illegal immigrants: Owaisi's rising clout poses challenges for Bengal CM
Sreemoy Talukdar •To understand the impulses at work that prompted Mamata to make such a statement, we need to put her comments in context of her opposition to the Centre's Citizenship Amendment Act. The Bengal chief minister has been a staunch and vocal critic of the Citizenship Amendment Act and has vowed not to let CAA (and NRC, if and when it is promulgated) be implemented in Bengal. This is curious.
Imran Khan says he felt humiliated when Osama bin Laden was killed on Pakistani soil in daring US strike
•Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said that he felt humiliated when the US forces killed the dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden in a daring strike inside Pakistan in 2011.
Amid heightened tensions between US and Iraq, Imran Khan warns Washington against any misadventure with Tehran
•Cautioning the United States about any misadventure against Iran, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan said any action on the lines of Iraq could be much worse and people would forget Al-Qaeda.
Kabul blast: Afghans mourning a day after the fatal attack that killed 90
•Scores of people waited on Thursday in hospitals to learn the status of family members and friends wounded in Wednesday's attack.
US drops 'mother of all bombs' in Afghanistan: Optics aside, what was the aim?
Pckatoch •US forces dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on what it said was an Islamic State (IS) cave complex in remote Afghanistan on Thursday.
US goes after Haqqani network, freezes US assets of suspected militants
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Reality or Paranoia: Why is Pakistan afraid of India - Afghanistan ties?
Fp Archives •It is time Pakistan’s strategists and supporters reassessed their view of India-Afghan relations and instead of seeing them as a zero sum game, saw them as a positive development.
Afghanistan flash floods: 22 dead, hundreds homeless
Fp Archives •At least 22 people in Afghanistan were killed and farmland was damaged when flash floods hit a plain near the capital, officials said on Sunday.