After President Trumps decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear deal, Iran has stated that they will discuss a response with other countries. President Hassan Rouhani of Iran called Trumps action “an act of psychological warfare against Iran”. He also stated that he has instructed the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation to take the necessary measures for future actions so that… Read more »
Independent A gunman shot and killed five cricket players in Laghman province, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The Afghan authorities have said that the man on a motorcycle opened fire at the group of local cricketers in Alinghar distrcit while they were playing a game. A provincial spokesman, Sarhadii Zhouak, said the attacker then fled the scene. No one has yet come… Read more »
France 24 Renewed nuclear sanctions would certainly cause severe problems for Iran’s economy, but much of the damage has already been done by the uncertainty created by the US and myriad home-grown problems. It was awkward timing for the annual International Oil Show in Tehran this week, which opened just two days before US President Donald Trump was due to make his decision on… Read more »
France 24 Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, officials said, an incident likely to heighten political tensions ahead of general elections expected in late July. Junior interior minister Talal Chaudhry said Iqbal was hit by a bullet in his arm in the attack in Narowal district, his constituency in central Punjab province. “The minister… Read more »
France 24 Iran said it will hold talks with signatories to a nuclear deal after US President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to withdraw from the accord, which it branded “psychological warfare”. President Hassan Rouhani also said Iran could resume uranium enrichment “without limit” in response to Trump’s announcement. He said he would discuss Iran’s response with the other parties to the 2015 deal — Britain, France,… Read more »
Over 25 people were killed last Monday in Kabul because of 2 suicide blasts set off by IS group Terrorists. This blast also killed 9 journalists including Agence France-Presse chief photographer Shah Marai and BBC Reporter Ahmad Shah and injured 45 other people. Unfortunately this isn’t the only attack recently, this is an on going security problem in Kabul. Last… Read more »
CNN Kabul (CNN)Three people are dead after children found and played with an unexploded mortar in Afghanistan on Sunday, provincial authorities said. A mother, her daughter and another girl died when the mortar detonated in the Sorkhrod district of Nangarhar Province, the Nangarhar authority media office said. Eight other people were injured, including two girls, it said. The mortar is… Read more »
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Afghan security forces decreased by nearly 11 percent in the past year, the U.S. government’s top watchdog on Afghanistan said on Tuesday, an indication of the difficulty Kabul will have in dealing with its precarious security situation. Afghan policemen stand guard at a gate of a voter registration centre for the upcoming parliamentary… Read more »
France 24 An Indian court jailed a self-styled religious preacher for life on Wednesday for raping a teenage girl, the latest sexual abuse case against a so-called “godman”. A judge delivered the guilty verdict at a jail in the city of Jodhpur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, where Asumal Harpalani, commonly known as Asaram Bapu, has been held… Read more »
France 24 At least 25 people were killed, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer Shah Marai, BBC reporter Ahmad Shah, and seven other journalists, when two suicide blasts ripped through Kabul on Monday, police and AFP have confirmed. The attacks, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, are the latest deadly assaults on the Afghan capital and have spurred an outpouring… Read more »