Pakistan Army Kills 30 Militants Trying to Cross From Afghanistan
DefenseNews : Pakistan’s army said Friday it had killed 30 militants attempting to cross the border from Afghanistan over the last three days, after a suicide attack killed 16 soldiers in the same region. The militants belonged to the Pakistan Taliban or its affiliated groups, the military said in a statement accusing archfoe India of backing them. “The security forces demonstrated exceptional professionalism, vigilance preparedness, and prevented a potential catastrophe,” it said. “A large quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives was al…
Blast Claimed by IS Kills Four in Northwest Pakistan
DefenseNews: An explosion in northwest Pakistan killed at least four local government officials and police Wednesday, an officer told AFP, in an attack claimed by a branch of the Islamic State group. “One senior government official, along with another government official and two police officers, were killed in the attack. Eleven people were wounded,” said Waqas Rafiq, a senior police official stationed in Bajaur, a city near the border with Afghanistan. The officials were travelling in a car in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when “the attack happ…
US Envoy Raises Concerns About Attacks Against Hindus and Sinks In Afghanistan
Kabul: US Special Envoy Rina Amiri has raised concerns about the escalating attacks against Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan . On Saturday, Islamic State attacked Karte Parwan Gurdwara in which two people were killed and several others got injured. Gunmen had tried to storm the temple on Saturday morning and all were killed after a standoff that lasted several hours. "Deeply concerned about the escalating attacks against Afghanistan's Hindus & Sikhs. Afghanistan's rich diversity is its greatest treasure. A threat against one gr…
Before US pullout, watchdog warned of Afghan air force collapse
KABUL, Afghanistan — Months before President Joe Biden announced the U.S .’s complete withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, Washington’s watchdog warned that the Afghan air force would collapse without critical American aid, training and maintenance. The report was declassified Tuesday. Joe Biden The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko, submitted to the Department of Defense in January 2021, underscores that American authorities had been alerted that Afghanistan’s air force did not have the capab…
US Handed Over Seven Facilities To Afghan Military: Pentagon
Washington: "The US has officially handed over seven facilities to the Afghan Ministry of Defense," CENTCOM said, adding that the US has completed more than 95 per cent of the entire withdrawal process. The US has handed over as many as seven facilities to the Afghan military, the Central Command said on Tuesday, asserting that America has completed more than 95 per cent of its troop withdrawal and has entered the last phase of the drawdown from the war-torn country. Since the decision of US President Joe Biden, the Department of Def…
US Relationship with Pakistan are extraordinarily complicated: Defense News
WASHINGTON: Describing the US' relationship with Pakistan as extraordinarily complicated, the outgoing Obama administration has hoped that President-elect Donald Trump would deepen counter-terrorism cooperation with the country to make America a safer place. "Obviously, the United States has an extraordinarily complicated relationship, particularly when it comes to national security with Pakistan," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said yesterday. "There are some areas where the United States and Pakis…
Address support to terror from outside Afghanistan:India to United Nations
India ’s permanent envoy to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin has said that sustainable peace can be brought in Afghanistan by denying safe havens to the terrorist groups in its neighbourhood. “If we are to bring sustainable peace to Afghanistan, groups and individuals that perpetrate violence against the people and the Government of Afghanistan must be denied safe havens and sanctuaries in Afghanistan’s neighbourhood,” he said. Speaking on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security in UN Securit…
Donald Trump has officially chosen Gen. James Mattis for defense secretary
Donald Trump on Thursday announced retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as his pick for secretary of defense, tasking the popular military leader with carrying out the president-elect's planned overhaul of Pentagon operations and a shift in national security priorities. Speaking at a rally Thursday night in Cincinnati, Trump confirmed media reports published earlier in the day indicating the president-elect intended to nominate Mattis for the key Cabinet post. Neither Mattis nor Trump's transition team responded t…
India hands over another Mi-24 gunship to Afghan Air Force
India completed the delivery of the final Mi-24 gunship to the Afghan Air Force (AAF) as part of New Delhi’s ongoing reconstruction effort with the delivery of the 4 gunships marking the first lethal weaponry supply to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). The Afghan Air Force (AAF) said the last of the 4 Mi-24 gunships was delivered to the Afghan Air Force on Saturday. AAF further added that a number of the Indian Air Force personnel also arrived in Kabul to complete the delivery of the final gunship to the Afgh…
Modi and Ghani to reach Amritsar, likely to hold talks: Defense News
Modi and Ghani will jointly inaugurate the ministerial deliberations of Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, which is being attended by nearly 40 countries and leading groupings like the European Union. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani will reach in Amritsar this evening to take part in the annual conference of the Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process. They are also likely to hold bilateral talks to strengthen India-Afghanistan ties, an official said. They are also scheduled to pay obeisance at the Golden …
Indian Defense News: Former Taliban Commander Who Joined ISIS Is Said to Be Killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A former Taliban commander who had recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group was killed in a military operation in Helmand Province on Monday, according to Afghan officials and a tribal elder in the area. Precise details were unavailable. In announcing the death of the commander, Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, the Afghan spy agency said that it had been tracking him for a month, and that he and five of his men had been killed in a “successful military operation” in the Kajaki district of …
$1trillion cost of longest US war hastens retreat from military intervention
The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month , according to Financial Times calculations and independent researchers. Around 80 per cent of that spending on the Afghanistan conflict has taken place during the presidency of Barack Obama, who sharply increased the US military presence in the country after taking office in 2009. The enormous bill for the 13-year conf…
Pakistani military says jets kill 17 militants
Pakistan ’s army says its jets have killed 17 militants as part of an ongoing operation in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border. An army statement says Tuesday’s airstrikes were carried out in the North Waziristan tribal region, where the military has been carrying out a major operation since June. It said some foreigners were included among those “terrorists” killed in the strikes. It provided no details and the identity of the slain militants was not known. The Pakistan i army says it has killed about 1,200 mili…
US drone kills six militants near afghan border village sources
PESHAWAR: At least six suspected militants have been killed in a US drone strike in Renay-Parchao area of Afghanistan bordering Khyber Agency, intelligence sources said on Tuesday. Renay-Parchao is a small village in Afghanistan on the bank of the Kabul River just across the Pakistani border in Loe Shalman area in Khyber’s Landi Kotal subdivision. Pakistan i intelligence sources said that the US drone fired two missiles targeting militants in two pick-up trucks, destroying them completely. Scores of others were also injured in the…
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of U.S. gear may be missing in Afghanistan
The US Army has failed to report $419.5 million worth of equipment that may have gone missing, according to a recent U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General’s audit. Our Defense News colleague Joe Gould writes in his article that while not all the materiel is actually missing (as in gone from Army stocks forever…or some of it could have been transferred to Afghan National Army or Afghan National Police for instance), the audit shows the difficulty of keeping track of military gear.
Taliban hit Kabul aid workers' compound, breach military base
Kabul: Taliban gunmen stormed a guest house for foreign aid workers in the Afghan capital on Saturday and fought inside former US and British base Camp Bastion in the south, just a month after it was vacated. The attacks spotlight the challenges facing Afghan security forces as most foreign troops prepare to withdraw. Authorities fear hostages may have been taken in Saturday's assault on the guest house in Kabul's western Karte Seh district. The area was cordoned off and gunfire and explosions could be heard late into the ev…
Major U.S. Army division ends operations in Afghanistan 13 years after it arrived
The U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division formally concluded its operations in Afghanistan on Tuesday, another sign that the war is drawing to a close even as American commanders are evaluating whether they will have enough resources to support the fledgling Afghan military. After five tours in Afghanistan since 2001, four of which included operations in the country’s volatile and dangerous eastern provinces, most of the soldiers from the division will be en route to Fort Drum in New York by Wednesday afternoon. A few dozen soldiers…
India’s aim to arm Afghan forces may anger Pakistan
India has signed an agreement under which it will pay Russia to supply arms and equipment to the Afghan military as foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country, in a move that risks infuriating Pakistan. Under the deal, smaller arms such as light artillery and mortars will be sourced from Russia and moved to Afghanistan. But it could eventually involve the transfer of heavy artillery, tanks and even combat helicopters that the Afghans have been asking India for since last ye…
Computers of defence establishment hacked
In a major security breach, around 50 computers belonging to the armed forces and the DRDO were hacked sometime back and classified files could have been compromised. Apparently in view of the development, an advisory has been issued to the Services that computers having internet facility should be kept at a distance from those on which classified work is conducted. The security breach took place in December and was detected by the intelligence agencies after which a high-level probe was ordered, government sources said. The c…
Desi Tyres on Sukhoi Fighters a Runway Hit
The Indian fighter jets have begun the process of changing over to desi tyres, probably signalling an end to escalating cost and non-availability concerns. The Indian Air Force sources confirmed to Express that the ‘India shining’ story is being scripted by the MRF, which has got the clearance from the military airworthiness officials to produce the main wheel tyres of frontline fighters Sukhoi (Su-30 MKI). The indigenous tyres named Aeromuscle are 30 per cent cheaper than the imported ones. The IAF started looking within the countr…
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