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CIA director held secret meeting with Taliban leader Baradar: Report
24 Aug

CIA director held secret meeting with Taliban leader Baradar: Report

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Facing growing pressure over his looming deadline to leave Afghanistan, President Joe Biden dispatched his spy chief to meet with the Taliban's de facto leader, according to a senior diplomat in the region and another source familiar with the matter. CIA Director William Burns held a secret meeting with Taliban co-founder and political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar on Monday, the sources said. The meeting was first reported by the Washington Post. The CIA declined to comment on the meeting, citing the agency's policy of never discussing the travels and meetings of its director. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on…
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India evacuates 78 people from Afghanistan, including 25 Indians
24 Aug

India evacuates 78 people from Afghanistan, including 25 Indians

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On Tuesday India brought back 78 people, including 25 of its nationals and a number of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus from Dushanbe, a day after they were evacuated from Kabul to the Tajik city. The group along with three copies of the Guru Granth Sahib was airlifted from Kabul to Dushanbe by a military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Monday. The evacuated people were received at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and V Muraleedharan. "Blessed to receive & pay obeisance to three holy Swaroop of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji from…
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Afghanistan: Rescued Sikhs carrying 3 Guru Granth Sahib Ji to India on IAF aircraft
23 Aug

Afghanistan: Rescued Sikhs carrying 3 Guru Granth Sahib Ji to India on IAF aircraft

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Afghanistan crisis, evacuation: India is carrying a daunting mission to evacuate its citizens from Afghanistan ever since the Taliban seized control of the war-ravaged country on August 15. The Indian Air Force has also operated a number of rescue flights from Kabul bringing back hundreds of stranded Afghan Hindus and Sikhs.  According to the latest report, 46 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs with three Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (holy book) are currently inside the Kabul Airport and are being escorted by international forces to the Indian Air Force aircraft on the ground. In the next few hours, more people will…
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Afghanistan Conflict: 1 Afghan military personnel killed in gunfight at Kabul Airport involving western forces
23 Aug

Afghanistan Conflict: 1 Afghan military personnel killed in gunfight at Kabul Airport involving western forces

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A firefight at one of the gates of Kabul’s International Airport killed at least one Afghan security officer early Monday, German officials said, the latest chaos to engulf Western efforts to evacuate those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country. One Afghan guard was killed and three others were injured in the battle, which also involved US and German forces, the German military said on Twitter, without specifying whether the dead Afghan was one of the Taliban fighters deployed to guard the airport. The shooting near the military side of the airport came as the Taliban sent insurgents northward to…
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Suicide bomber attacks bus carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan, 2 children killed
21 Aug

Suicide bomber attacks bus carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan, 2 children killed

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China on August 21 asked Pakistan to take effective measures and overhaul the security mechanism to forestall attacks on its nationals working on various infrastructure projects after a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Chinese nationals in the restive Balochistan Province, in the second such attack in over a month. The Chinese embassy here in a statement strongly condemned Friday's suicide attack on the convoy of Chinese nationals comprising four vehicles in Gwadar, the port city of strategic importance due to the presence of Chinese workers and investment. A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan on a motorcade carrying Chinese personnel…
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US not looking for a new trade agreement, says Union minister Piyush Goyal
20 Aug

US not looking for a new trade agreement, says Union minister Piyush Goyal

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Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that the US has indicated to India that it is not looking at a new trade agreement and India will focus on foreign trade agreements with other markets, like UK and Australia. “The USA has kind of indicated that they are not looking at new trade agreements, however, we will work with them to address market access issues on both sides, this will be a big opportunity for our export sector,” Goyal said during his interaction with Export Promotion Councils (EPCs), Commodity Boards and Authorities and other stakeholders in Mumbai. India will look…
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Taliban ‘intensifying’ search for Afghans who helped US forces: UN document
20 Aug

Taliban ‘intensifying’ search for Afghans who helped US forces: UN document

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A confidential United Nations document warns the Taliban is intensifying efforts to hunt down Afghans who worked with American and NATO forces over the past two decades, and that the militants have threatened to kill or arrest their family members if the people being sought cannot be found. The document, produced by a Norwegian threat analysis firm, was circulated among U.N. officials Wednesday and sharply contrasts a publicity blitz by Taliban leaders. They have tried to lure the international community into believing they will give “amnesty” to Afghans who worked against the hardline Islamist group. The Taliban are going house-to-house…
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Taliban Open Fire, Beat Up Women, Kids Outside Kabul Airport
19 Aug

Taliban Open Fire, Beat Up Women, Kids Outside Kabul Airport

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Taliban promised safe passage to the Kabul airport for people trying to flee the country, there have been incidents of violence at the checkpoints on airport roads. Photographs of women and children being beaten and whipped by the Taliban fighters have surfaced showing the brutal face of the insurgents. Reports of civilians – women and children – being beaten, houses being ransacked have been pouring in since August 15 – the day the Taliban seized control of capital Kabul. According to reports, the US troops who have taken over the control of the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul on…
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Ex Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Taliban Leaders Meeting
18 Aug

Ex Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Taliban Leaders Meeting

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 Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network terrorist group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by Taliban to set up government. According to sources Karzai was accompanied by the old government's main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, who declined to be identified.The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of the most deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.  In the meantime,…
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US probing deaths at plane takeoff in Kabul
18 Aug

US probing deaths at plane takeoff in Kabul

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The US Air Force has said that its Office of Special Investigations is reviewing an incident at the Kabul airport on Monday in which multiple people were killed when hundreds of Afghan civilians were desperate to leave the country, swarmed a C-17 cargo plane as it was about  to take off. The Air Force did not say anything about the number of people dead. It said that human remains were found in the plane's wheel well after it landed at al-Udeid Air Base in the Gulf state of Qatar. Videos of the incident, including images of people falling from the…
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