As VOA's Urdu Service reports, these brave young women are rising to the occasion to serve their country and become the newest members of Pakistan's Elite Commandos.
A year after President Donald Trump announced his strategy for Afghanistan, the war there is at a virtual stalemate, and Pakistan holds the key to whether the Taliban insurgents it has sheltered and supported for decades join the peace process or continue to fight for their avowed aim of forcing the United States to withdraw its troops.
Afghan officials say three gunmen have been killed in central Kabul after they fired a barrage of rockets while President Ashraf Ghani was making a speech to mark the start of the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.
Officials in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz say the Taliban have taken more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage after seizing the buses they were traveling in.
Afghan security forces claim to be in control of the city of Ghazni after an attack by Taliban militants set off almost five days of fighting. Video shot on August 15 shows burned-out markets and a heavy security presence on the streets.
A suicide bomber has targeted students preparing for university exams in a predominantly Shi’ite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 48 people and wounding 67 others, official say.
Irrespective of the latest battlefield wins and losses, the Taliban appear to have achieved some major political and military objectives by overrunning Ghazni, a vital Afghan city home to an estimated 280,000 people.
Taliban fighters have overrun an Afghan National Army operations base in northern Afghanistan while, further to the south, security forces are battling for a fifth consecutive day against Taliban militants who seized the city of Ghazni.
Residents of the beleaguered southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni say that a lack of security, health care, and diminishing food supplies are endangering tens of thousands of residents who are caught up in the fighting
Afghan government forces have retaken most of Ghazni from the Taliban as clashes continued for a fourth straight day after the militant group launched an assault on the eastern city, officials say.
The battle for the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni has continued into the evening for a third day as government forces and Taliban fighters engage in intense clashes, reports say.
Clashes between Afghan government forces and the Taliban continue around the Afghan city of Ghazni on August 11, a day after Taliban militants stormed its center, officials said.
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