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Taliban threat from AfPak real: Air chief

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Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from AfPak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Br

Seven Afghan nationals get life term for trespassing into India

A court on Saturday sentenced 7 Afghan nationals to life imprisonment for trespassing into India allegedly with arms and ammunition in 1997.

All of them were arrested in October, 1997, by the Indian

IAF chief voices concern over instability in Af-Pak region

The Taliban threat and instability in the Af-Pak region can have its fallout on India's security in the next two years, Air Chief Marshal N. A. K. Browne warned on Saturday.

"2013 and 2014 are cruci

Two Afghan suicide attackers killed: Governor

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Two suicide attackers were killed when they opened fire inside the governor's compound in the capital of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Saturday, the governor said.

"Two suicide attacker

US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan with four US troops

A US Army helicopter crashed on a night time mission in southwestern Afghanistan, and initial reports from the scene indicated that as many as four soldiers may have been killed, a US defense official

Afghan forces seize 10 tonnes of explosives

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Afghan security forces have detained five insurgents who planned to use ten tonnes of explosives to inflict ‘large scale bloodshed’ in crowded areas of the capital Kabul, an official said Saturday.

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US lawmaker praises India's role in Afghanistan

A key US lawmaker has welcomed India's positive contribution to Afghanistan's reconstruction saying US-India partnership has an important role in contributing to the war torn nation's progress and wel

'Opposed to Afghan troop withdrawal, peace talks with Taliban'

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A top Republican Senator has criticised the Afghan policy of US President Barack Obama, opposing his troop withdrawal plan from the country and the peace talks with the Taliban.

Republican Senator J

Pakistan to negotiate new terms for reopening NATO supply routes

Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership today decided to forge a ‘work plan’ and negotiate new terms for reopening NATO supply routes as part of efforts for resetting the troubled relationship

US soldiers found posing with remains of suicide bombers

US troops posed with mangled remains of suspected Taliban suicide bombers. American paratroopers sent to check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of a suicide bomber, pos

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