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Leaderships of terrorist groups based in Pakistan, says Afghan MoD

The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said the leaderships of the terrorist groups are based in Pakistan, apparently gesturing towards the Taliban’s Quetta Council and the Haqqani terrorist network using the Pakistani soil to conduct operations in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Dawlat Waziri, told reporters that Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed ...

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Taliban Chief Mullah Mansoor had Pakistani passport

KABUL: The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar had a Pakistani passport. A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pakistani passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike. The passport ...

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Top 10 Countries with the Most Beautiful Women

Mirror There are 195 countries in the world and every one of them argues which has the most beautiful women. Beauty, however, is in the eye of the beholder. After all, every person has different tastes: you could show a group of people a photo of 10 beautiful women and it’s quite possible that they would all choose a different ...

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Some Taliban leaders may join peace with confirmation of Mansoor’s death: Abdullah

KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has said some Taliban leaders will likely join peace process with the confirmation of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s death. Abdullah further added an investigation is underway by the government of Afghanistan to ascertain the fate of Mullah Mansoor. The Chief Executive Officer said Mansoor has most probably been killed in the airstrike by the ...

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Mansoor’s relations reportedly became strained with Pakistan recently

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s relations had deteriorated with Pakistan since he assumed the charge of Taliban leadership, succeeding the group’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar. According to the diplomatic sources quoted in a report by a local newspaper in Pakistan, Mullah Mansoor’s death would not cause any major concerns in Pakistan’s power circles. The sources claimed that ...

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Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Mansoor Likely Killed in Pakistan

PAKISTAN: The Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has likely been killed in American drone strike in Pakistan, it has been reported. The airstrike was carried out along the Durand Line in a remote area of Pakistan, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal. Mansoor was reportedly travelling a vehicle which was targeted by multiple drones, a senior US defense ...

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Couple got married in front of 1,100 guests who were all cats

A couple in United States got married in an unusual ceremony attended by 1,100 guests but they were all cats, it has been reported. The couple, Louise Veronneau and Dominic Husson, tied the knot outside the city of Parlier in California State of the United States on Tuesday. Originally from Canada, the couple met in Montreal and decided to get ...

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Pakistani military handed over Angoor Adda check post to Afghan forces

AFGHANISTAN: The Pakistani military announced Saturday that Angoor Adda check post was handed over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF). A spokesman for the Pakistani military said the check post was handed over to the Afghan forces in a bid to improve bilateral relations and border management. “To strengthen brotherly relation between Pakistan and Afghanistan and with ...

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‘Jaffarabad police chief’s death likely to be premeditated murder, not suicide’

ISLAMABAD:  Intelligence agencies and a second post-mortem report have ruled out suicide as the cause of death of a senior police officer in Jaffarabad on Monday, concluding that he was, in fact, murdered. Sources said intelligence agencies have collected sufficient evidence to establish that the death of a SSP Jahanzaib Khan Kakar was the result of a planned murder by “some ...

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Ghani optimistic about empowerment and improving role of Afghan women

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani expressed optimism regarding efforts to empower the Afghan women, emphasizing that the women are moving forward in making progress equally and should to shoulder with the men. Ghani further added that the women in the country are now capable to independently represent themselves. The Afghan women suffered the most during the past several decades and ...

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