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Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Kansas University Medical Centre researchers are developing microelectronic circuitry that could rewire brain connections that get damaged by trauma. Pedram Mohseni, and Randolph J. Nudo are trying to guide the growth of axons in a brain damaged by an exploding bomb, car crash or stroke. They believe repeated communications between distant [...]

Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the CIA’s drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies, which has launched nearly four times as many attacks in 2009 and 2010 as it did during the final year of the Bush administration, according to The Long War Journal. As [...]

New York, Sep 28 (ANI): To starting reconciliation discussions that could pave the way to end the fighting in Afghanistan, the high level leadership of Taliban has reached out to senior Afghan Government officials, according to top US commander operating in Afghanistan. For months, efforts at reconciliation have been stalled at every level, and this [...]

Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): NATO has changed its stance on staging aerial strikes by its helicopter gunships inside Pakistan, following Islamabad’s warning of counter-measures against the US-led forces in Afghanistan. According to military sources, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which had earlier defended their aerial engagement as an action ‘under the right of self-defence’, later [...]

Karachi, Sep 27(ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is planning to target Pakistan Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani and corps commanders, intelligence agencies have warned. The warning about attacks on the high profile officials came after they received details of a Taliban meeting held in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. According to The Nation, the participants at the meeting [...]

Washington, Sept.27 (ANI): Well-known author-cum-journalist Bob Woodward has revealed in his latest book “Obama’s Wars that President Barack Obama’s focus is turning increasingly to Pakistan, even as his administration”s military efforts continue to be directed at Afghanistan. Woodward told ABC News that Obama was told of deep problems in the US relationship with Pakistan in [...]

Washington, Sept.27 (ANI): US President Brack Obama grew so frustrated with his own administration”s deliberations over the war in Afghanistan that he wound up dictating a six-page, single-spaced “terms sheet” that sought to define the military mission and prevent his commanders from further escalating the war in that country. According to journalist Bob Woodward, whose [...]

Kabul, Sept 28 (ANI): US and Afghan troops have reportedly begun active combat operations last week to drive the Taliban out of their strongholds surrounding the city of Kandahar. Sixteen Americans have been killed so far, including two killed by a roadside bomb on Sunday. While defining the current phase for the first time, Brigadier [...]

Kabul, Sep 27(ANI): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has killed at least 34 insurgents on Pakistani soil after two separate operations from Afghanistan. According to The Daily Times, two Apache attack helicopters crossed the border on Friday after the insurgents attacked a remote Afghan security outpost in Khost province. At least 30 insurgents [...]

London, Sept 27 (ANI): A British female aid worker, along with three Afghan fellow workers, has reportedly been kidnapped by suspected insurgents in Afghanistan. According to The Telegraph, they were seized at gunpoint while travelling in a convoy to visit an aid project in the Narang district of Kunar. The woman was reportedly working for [...]

Delhi, Sep 27 (ANI): Rubbishing security concerns over Australia’s warnings that its citizens in Delhi should not fly national flags, Australian Commonwealth Games Federation chief Perry Crosswhite has said the Games venues are secure and there would be no issue there. Security experts warned Australians travelling to India not to wear Aussie colours or T-shirts, [...]

Dhaka, Sep 27 (IANS) The US wants Bangladesh to deploy its troops in Afghanistan ‘to establish security and stability’, authorities said. Bangladesh said it would do ‘whatever it can to help restore peace in South Asia, especially in Afghanistan’. A Foreign Office news release said the subject was discussed when US special representative for Afghanistan [...]

Islamabad, Sep 27 (DPA) The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has killed more than 30 insurgents on Pakistani territory, the NATO-led force said late Sunday. The alleged militants had attacked an outlying military post Friday in Afghanistan’s Khost province. The insurgents were then pursued across the Pakistani border by two of NATO’s Apache [...]

Islamabad, Sep 27 (IANS) At least 30 people were killed as two NATO helicopters struck Pakistan’s northwest tribal area bordering Afghanistan in the wee hours of Monday, media reports said. Afghanistan-based NATO helicopters fired at the militants hiding in the Pakistani side who earlier launched an attack at a NATO check post in the Khost [...]

Kabul, Sep 27 (DPA) Nearly 100 police officers have been killed and more than 200 injured each month in the past six months in Taliban-led attacks in Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. ‘A total of 595 police forces were martyred and 1,345 others injured in the past six months in the country,’ Zamarai Bashary, [...]

Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): Some newly disclosed US government documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and recently posted on the website of the George Washington University National Security, have shed more light not only on early Taliban offers, but also on the role of Pakistan before and after the attacks. According to [...]

London, Sep 21 (IANS) An Al Qaeda female suicide bomber is believed to be on the prowl in Paris, triggering a terror alert, a media report said. Daily Telegraph Tuesday reported that there were fears of suicide bomb plots against the Paris transport network. Intelligence officials were looking for a female suicide bomber who they [...]

Panaji, Sep 21 (IANS) The South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) ended Monday, amidst empty seats and organisational issues plaguing the event. The four-day long festival in which 50 films from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were screened, ended with the screening of ‘Priotomeshu’, a Bangladeshi film directed by Morshedul Islam. [...]

Washington, Sept 29 (ANI): A British man, who is of Somali decent, has been arrested at Amsterdam”s Schiphol airport on suspicion of involvement in terrorism. According to The Telegraph, the man was travelling from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool, via Schiphol, to Entebbe in Uganda. He was seized on an aircraft that was ready to [...]

Peshawar, Sept 20(ANI): At least five militants were killed in a US drone attack in the tribal belt of North Waziristan in Pakistan. According to The Daily Times, three missiles were fired at a house in Dattakhel, a town controlled by terrorists who regularly launch cross-border attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan. The identities of [...]