Pakistan launches strikes on Afghanistan
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Tens of thousands of Afghan citizens are returning from Pakistan each month, many of them pouring into Jalalabad, an Afghan city near the border. The city’s population has doubled in the past two years to 600,
Pakistani air raids break fragile ceasefire as Islamabad faces pressure on both borders.
Returns have strained resources in a country that was already struggling to cope with a weak economy and the effects of a severe drought and two devastating earthquakes.
Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan.
Dennis Coyle, 64, was abducted from his Kabul apartment last year and has been held in near-solitary confinement by the Taliban.
A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.
Pakistan on late Saturday night carried out intelligence-based strikes against terrorist camps inside Afghanistan, in a retributive response to a string of deadly suicide bombings, including an attack on an Imambargah in Islamabad and multiple blasts in Bajaur and Bannu during the holy month of Ramazan.
In Afghanistan, Taliban regime has completely failed to provide security to foreign nationals. According to a researcher at the Stimson Institute in the United States Afghan Taliban regime has completely failed to protect Chinese workers from attacks by local militants.