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Karzai calls on Taliban to be free from Pakistani intelligence, military

Edit Khaama Press 17 Sep 2016
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Taliban group ... The remarks by Karzai came as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistan for supporting the Afghan militant groups, including the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network....

Longtime Indians fan shows her loyalty by crocheting 48 afghans for players, staff

Edit The Miami Herald 17 Sep 2016
Since late 2014, the boxes had been stacking up, boxes that contained afghans the 67-year-old retired medical assistant was crocheting for the Cleveland Indians ... She and her husband, James, shipped 47 afghans, each box including a hand-written note, to the Indians' clubhouse ... The cost if she'd sold them at craft fairs at her usual price of $125 was $5,825 ... Mazey brought along afghan No ... They don't ever sit the same....

Trump is brilliant at rebranding

Edit Albuquerque Journal 17 Sep 2016
Over the last month, Trump’s new team, led by Kellyanne Conway, has worked single-mindedly to blunt that line of attack on the theory that if he can just cross the threshold of acceptability, he wins ... It’s the same stature booster Sen ... Trump the statesman ... the kinder gentler Trump ... And where do you think Trump gave this dish-the-Whigs cradle-to-college entitlement speech? Why, the Philadelphia suburbs!....

Hillary sharpens, Trump softens; he’s rising, she’s falling

Edit Denver Post 17 Sep 2016
Evan Vucci, The Associated Press ... If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack ... It’s the same stature booster Sen ... Trump the statesman ... the kinder gentler Trump ... And where do you think Trump gave this dish-the-Whigs cradle-to-college entitlement speech? Why, the Philadelphia suburbs!....

Chole's Clare Waight Keller: 'Having a muse galvanises me'

Edit The Guardian 17 Sep 2016
I was researching the autumn collection, looking for the boyish side of the story that best embodies the Chloé attitude. I looked at motocross and the more I looked, this one woman’s face kept coming up, in photographs that looked as if they were from the 1970s ... There’s an innocence to that time in the 1970s, and there are joyful moments – photographs of her sitting with Afghan children with the bike next to her....

Pakistan is driving out 1.5m Afghan refugees

Edit The Economist 16 Sep 2016
By the end of last year 1.5m Afghans were living in Pakistan ... Now Pakistan’s government wants to send the Afghans back ... As for the 1m or so ... Many Afghans are getting the message that they are no...Continue reading ....

U.S. Senate Committee: Pakistan Is A 'Tremendously Duplicitous Partner'

Edit Radio Free Europe 16 Sep 2016
policy in Afghanistan on September 15 that Pakistan was the "greatest threat to American soldiers [in Afghanistan] and certainly the greatest threat to the Afghan military and civilians." ... officials have long blamed Pakistan for supporting the Afghan insurgency, a charge rejected by Islamabad....

USD 21 Million Needed to Help 400,000 Afghan Returnees from Pakistan By Year-End: IOM (IOM - International Organization for Migration)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
Afghanistan - IOM is appealing for USD 21 million to provide life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable among the 400,000-plus undocumented Afghans likely to return home from Pakistan before the end of 2016 ... From 01 July to 10 September 2016, a total of 109,704 undocumented Afghans returned or were deported from Pakistan through the Torkham border crossing....

Afghan forces receive 4 MD-530 light attack helicopters in North

Edit Khaama Press 16 Sep 2016
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) received 4 light attack MD-530 Cayuse helicopters in north of Afghanistan ... The Afghan Air Force commander Gen ... will be used by the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan army....

PAKISTAN ASKS AFGHANISTAN TO CEASE ALLEGATIONS AND WORK TO MANAGE BORDER (Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
'If the Afghan government seeks an end to cross border terrorism, it should support such fencing and strict controls at the international border', she added.Voicing the international community's unanimous view that sustainable peace was only achievable through a negotiated end to the war, Ambassador Lodhi said, 'Fifteen years of war, waged by the ......

Military Leadership & Diplomats Urge Congress to Extend Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program Championed by Senator Shaheen » (Jeanne Shaheen)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) welcomed comments from military leadership and diplomats during Senate hearings today in strong support of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program. The Afghan SIV program allows Afghans who faithfully supported the U.S ... In an op-ed published in The New York Timesearlier this summer, Senator Shaheen warned of the strategic costs of abandoning these Afghans....

Report: Taliban Using Captured U.S. Weapons Against Afghan Troops

Edit Breitbart 16 Sep 2016
The Taliban in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan are increasingly capturing weapons and other military equipment, including armored vehicles, from U.S.-trained and equipped Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and using them against the troops ... ....

Pakistan Uneasy About India's Influence on Afghanistan

Edit Voa News 16 Sep 2016
"Afghan soil should not be used against the interests of Pakistan,” Zekria said ... "Pakistan knows and has the ... Significance of deal Afghan and Indian officials described the aid package agreed to this week in New Delhi as intended purely for developmental projects ... "In the past we have seen that Pakistan has used Afghan land against India," she said....
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