Friday, August 13th, 2021
Denmark, Norway shut Kabul missions
KABUL: Denmark and Norway have temporarily shut their Kabul embassies while Finland will evacuate up to 130 local Afghan workers, ministers from the Nordic countries said on Friday. “The Danes in Afghanistan must leave the country immediately, the situation is very serious,” foreign minister Jeppe Kofod told a news conference, adding that all embassy employees will be evacuated and the mission will be closed temporarily.Norway echoed the move, with foreign minister Ine Eriksen Soreide telling a news conference that evacuation will also be available “to locally employed Afghans with immediateRead More
No headway at Doha meeting
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The extended Troika meeting held in Doha ended without any progress. According to Pakistani foreign office, the meeting of the Extended Troika including Special Envoys of Pakistan, US, China and Russia was held in Doha. The members of the Extended Troika discussed the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and explored ways of expediting the intra-Afghan peace talks for achieving an inclusive political settlement and bringing an end to the four decades long conflict in Afghanistan. Delegations of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan led by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and TalibanRead More
Gen Nadeem Raza meets Kazakh PM
Both sides discuss bilateral issues; regional peace DNA NUR SULTAN: General Nadeem Raza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, who is on official visit to Kazakhstan, called on Askar Mamin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. Chairman JCSC also had separate meetings with Defence Minister, Deputy Minister of Industry & Infrastructural Development, and Chief of General Staff of Kazakhstan Armed Forces. During the meetings, both sides deliberated upon various areas of interest, bilateral cooperation including security, counter-terrorism and prevailing regional environment particularly with reference to Afghanistan. The dignitaries dilated upon measures toRead More
Education or Graduation?
Ali Raza MomandFacts, ideas and skills that are learned, either formally or informally, and that positively impact one’s attitude towards existence may logically be defined as education.If one’s behaviour is not changed positively or a so-called educated still remains part of the engineered propaganda firmly staged against sections of humanity on some offensive religious, ethnic or even patriotic lines, this simply is something not more than the accumulation of the necessary data for getting a degree to run the concerned systems and no, any education.Moreover, education needs liberal environment andRead More
Five killed in UK’s first mass shooting in 11 years
22-year-old gunman Jake Davison killed himself after the six-minute spree News Desk LONDON: British police said on Friday they were investigating the background of a troubled loner who obtained a firearms license and shot dead five people including a three-year-old girl in the country’s first mass shooting in 11 years. No motive has yet emerged for Thursday evening’s bloodshed at the hands of 22-year-old gunman Jake Davison, who killed himself after the six-minute spree in a quiet residential area of Plymouth, southwest England, not far from western Europe’s biggest navalRead More
Taliban seizes Herat; detains commander
The Taliban have taken more than a dozen provincial capitals in recent days and now control more than two-thirds of the country News Desk/DNA KABUL: Taliban insurgents detained veteran militia commander Mohammad Ismail Khan on Friday after they seized the western city of Herat, a provincial council member said. The insurgents also captured three more provincial capitals as they press a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling the capital, Kabul. The seizure of Kandahar and Herat marks the biggest prizes yet for the Taliban, who have taken 12 of Afghanistan’sRead More