The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia has held talks with Pakistani military leaders about the possibility of postponing the withdrawal of foreign forces from neighboring Afghanistan.
This week’s Gandhara Briefing gives you the inside stories on the thousands of disappeared in Balochistan and their relatives’ protest in Islamabad, why so many turn to tribal councils over state courts in the Pashtun heartland, and the plight of Afghan women begging on the streets.
War, poverty, and an entrenched patriarchy are forcing an increasing number of Afghan women, mostly direct victims of violence, to beg on the streets for survival.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says the U.S. military is looking for so-called “fallback” bases in Saudi Arabia to protect forces in the event of raised tensions with Iran.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance did not make a final decision on whether or when to withdraw troops out of Afghanistan during a virtual meeting on February 18.
Two Afghan policemen were shot dead in eastern parts of Kabul on February 17, officials said, in the latest such attack in the capital.
Unusually high levels of fighting in the winter by Taliban militants risks further endangering an already fragile peace process in Afghanistan, according to the commander of U.S. forces in the war-wracked country.
NATO defense ministers are due to discuss on February 18 whether to withdraw international forces from Afghanistan by the end of April as per an agreement with the Taliban despite a steady increase in the level of violence in the war-wracked country.
The Taliban on February 16 urged the United States to honor a landmark withdrawal deal under which all foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in the coming months, even as violence continues to rage in the war-ravaged nation.
The European Court of Human Rights on February 16 rejected a complaint against German authorities’ decision not to prosecute an officer who ordered a deadly air strike in northern Afghanistan in September 2009.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on the Taliban on February 15 to reduce violence in Afghanistan and said any withdrawal of allied troops would be based on the situation on the ground.
The head of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security, Saimumin Yatimov, has discussed regional issues and bilateral cooperation with his Afghan counterpart in Kabul.
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