Afghan security officers inspect the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan's capital Sunday, killing at least a few people in a ve...
A patient is connected to oxygen tank in the intensive care unit ward for COVID-19 patients at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan men ride bicycles during a heavy fog in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Star spinner Rashid Khan won the ICC T20I Cricketer of the Decade award and termed it as a special achievement for a player from an emerging country like Afghanistan.
Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The strong car bomb explosion rocked the capital Kabul city on Sunday morning, killing multipl...
Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The strong car bomb explosion rocked the capital Kabul city on Sunday morning, killing multipl...
Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bombing attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A bombing attack on Wednesday in the Afghan capital of Kabul wounded a few people, Ferdaws Far...
Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A bombing and a shooting attack on Tuesday in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed a few people, in...
Afghan municipality workers clean the remains of a vehicle after a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan. A sticky bomb attached to an armored vehicle in northern Kabul killed a few, an...
A train moves during the inauguration of a 140-kilometer (90-mile) line running from eastern Iran into western Afghanistan, at a railroad station in Khaf, Iran. The leaders of Iran...
Afghan security checks a car destroyed in a rocket attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Multiple rockets were fired around Kabul residential areas Saturday, killing several and wounding d...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, right, and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan stand before a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ghani on Thursda...
Security forces inspect the site of a bomb explosion near a damaged vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul police said a bomb attached to a vehicle detonated in the capital causing i...
Afghans check car destroyed by an attached bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb attached to the vehicle of Yama Siawash, a former presenter on Afghanistan's TOLO TV, exploded early S...
Burned books are seen inside the Kabul University after a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the university has left many dead and wounded...
Journalists photograph inside Kabul University after a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the university has left many dead and wounded in...
A man is treated at a hospital after a deadly attack at Kabul University, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the Kabul University ...
Afghan security personnel patrol with a rocket propelled grenade launcher at the site of an attack at Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan. The brazen attack by gunmen who storme...
Afghan police work at the site of an attack at Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the Kabul University has left many dead and wounded i...
Afghan security personnel stand guard after a car bomb explosion 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."
