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Pak, India should sit together to resolve outstanding issues: Taliban
Mujahid made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with Pakistani TV channel ARY News. On Jammu and Kashmir, Zabihullah said New Delhi needs to have a "positive attitude towards the disputed territory", ARY News reported. About ties with countries, particularly India, Mujahid said the Taliban desires good ties with all nations, including India that is an important part of the region.
Kabul airport gates closed after deadly bombings, crowds cleared
"I drove a group of people to the airport early morning. We failed to reach the airport as Taliban soldiers did not allow vehicles to approach the airport, I drove them back to their home," a cab driver Mohammad Quraishi told Xinhua news agency. On Thursday evening, a suicide bombing rocked a gate of the airport where a crashing crowd was waiting for evacuation flights, and later another explosion hit the nearby Baron Camp, a former coalition base.
Khalil Haqqani, with close ties to Pak ISI, is head of Kabul security & designated terrorist
In 2011, Adm. Mike Mullen, then the top US military officer, told Congress that the Haqqani Network was a "veritable arm" of the ISI, Pakistan's main intelligence service, NBC reported. The Taliban itself was never designated by the US government as a terrorist organisation, but the Haqqani Network, which has close ties to Al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence, has long held that distinction.
Kabul airport terror attacks leaves 90 dead, alert for rockets, vehicle borne attacks
A Taliban official says at least 28 of the Afghans killed were Taliban members. Evacuation of civilians have now been accelerated after the attacks, a Western security official told a global news wire, adding that flights are taking off regularly US President Joe Biden has sworn revenge on the attackers, saying he would "hunt them down". This, as the US warned that more attacks could come, with US commanders saying they were on alert for possible rockets or vehicle-borne bombs targeting the airport, BBC said.
Situation in Afghanistan is a crisis in a crisis: ICRC official
Florian Seriex, spokesman of the ICRC, told Xinhua news agency on Thursday that the situation of many Afghan people was tragic before, and it remains so. "There are no fights in Kabul fortunately, but there were fights in other regions, in other cities, and as we work in the whole country we were very concerned by the issues of fights," he said.
Merkel cancels Israel visit amid Afghan crisis
According to the authorities, Merkel told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that she needs to call off the visit in order to stay in Germany for the evacuation of German soldiers from Afghanistan, reports Xinhua news agency. Bennett, who is currently in the US, spoke with Merkel from his hotel in Washington and expressed hope that the Afghanistan withdrawal will be successful, according to his office.
US withdrawal from Afghanistan leaves situation no more under control: Macron
Macron made the remarks on Thursday at a joint press conference with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin during his one-day working visit to Dublin, reports Xinhua news agency. Asked if the US and its allies have betrayed their moral responsibility following Washington's decision, Macron said that he would rather not use the word of "betrayal". He said that it is not safe for other countries to continue to carry out evacuations due to the US decision.
7 US Capitol police officers sue Trump over Jan 6 riot
Filed in a Washington, D.C. federal court on Thursday, the officers accused Trump of acting in concert with right-wing extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers engaged in acts of domestic terrorism during the riot, Xinhua news agency reported. They alleged that Trump and the other defendants violated both state law and provisions of the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 federal statute that makes it illegal to use force or threats to prevent federal officers from carrying out their official duties.
US Covid hospitalisations top 100K for 1st time since Jan
Hospitalisations are the highest across the South, where every state in the region has a higher portion of its population currently hospitalised with Covid-19 than the national level, Xinhua news agency quoted The Washington Post report as saying on Thursday. More than 17,000 people are hospitalised with Covid-19 in Florida, the highest among all US states, followed by Texas with 14,000, the newspaper said.
With vow to 'hunt down' suicide bombers, Biden risks further Afghan entanglement
"To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay," he declared in an address to the nation on Thursday evening. The suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul airport was carried out on Thursday by the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) group, a radical affiliate of the IS.
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