A damaged vehicle is removed from the site of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. A sticky bomb attached to the vehicle detonated, according to Firdaus Faramraz, spokesman for ...
Volunteers in protective suits spray disinfectant on storefronts to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Kabul, Afghanistan. The government Friday ordered a three-week lock-d...
The municipality workers bury the body of coronavirus victim on the outskirts of Herat province western of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan Sikh man wounded in a gunmen attack is treated in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of...
An Afghan Sikh woman wounded in a gunmen attack lies in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of wor...
Family members cry after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of worship in the heart of the Afghan ...
Family members cry after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan's minority Sikhs in their place of worship in the heart of the Afghan ...
A young girl holds a rose during an event marking the International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Civil society activists gathered the less fortunate to mark International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan civil society activists gathered beggars from the streets of Kab...
Foreign security personnel and Afghan police arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanista. Gunmen in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul attacked a remembrance ceremony for a mi...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, speaks during a joint news conference in pres...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, right, shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, after a joint news conference in presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S...
An Afghan man looks out from a broken window after a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials says the bomb placed in a motorbike wounded nine people. The truce betwe...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, Second Vice President Sarwar Danish, right, and first Vice President Amrullah Saleh, attend a ceremony for Ghani winning a 2nd term in the pr...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, arrives with his team to the Afghan Independent Election Commission to receive the official certificate of winning a 2nd term in the presiden...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, receives the official certificate of winning a 2nd term in the presidential election, during ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan.
In this file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks at the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany. The Afghan Independent Election Commission said that President Ashra...
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, center, addresses the media following a conference with his party members in Kabul, Afghanistan. The country's independent election...
An Afghan small girl ramp walks on stage of Mr. and Miss. Valentines 2020 contest, in Valentines Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan models Jalil Salimi, left and Salma Hussaini, right, pose during a modeling show celebrating Valentine's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
K.P. Nayar spells it out as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh prepares to visit Washington:
Notwithstanding New Delhi’s known opposition to bracketing India along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, there are many policy-makers in the Obama administration who believe that the US cannot win the war in Afghanistan unless they also push for a solution to Kashmir and that the problem of a failing state in Pakistan cannot be adequately addressed unless New Delhi and Islamabad are nudged towards a reconciliation...
...there is lack of comprehension now in New Delhi that the Obama administration intends to eventually legitimize the Taliban: what Washington is looking for is a way to put the best front on that eventuality and justify such an about-turn...
Read the full piece at the Telegraph
C. Raja Mohan adds:
...the cynical view of the prime minister’s visit to Washington is that it will be long on rhetoric but short on substance. But the unfolding developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan are too consequential for the national security of both India and the United States for their leaders to waste the opportunity for thinking at the highest levels about political cooperation on stabilising the north-western parts of the Subcontinent.
Read on at the Indian Express
Golnar Motevalli reports for Reuters:
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.
The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.
More here
This is perhaps also an opportunity to put in the joke received on SMS today: "They said pigs would fly if a black man became President. Well, swine flu."
