Men shout slogans against terrorists after a suicide attack among the protesters in Momandara district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives...
An injured boy is held up outside a hospital following a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan's...
An injured man is brought in to a hospital following a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan's c...
Afghans prepare to offer Eid al-Adha prayers outside of the Shah-e-Dushamshera mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Men hug each other after offering Eid al-Adha prayers outside of Shah-e-Dushamshera mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan men attend Eid al-Adha prayers outside of Shah-e-Dushamshera mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Smoke rises from a house where attackers are hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
An MD 530F military helicopter targets a house where attackers are hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban fired rockets toward the presidential palace in Kabul as President Ashr...
Security personnel arrive at the site of a deadly suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-i Barcha, in western Kabu...
Families leaves their homes after a rocket strike in the western part of Kabul, Afghanistan. In the capital Kabul, three people including a man and two children were wounded by a r...
Afghan first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, center, and members of his entourage arrive at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. An ...
Afghan security personnel and traffic police lie on the ground after a suicide attack near the Kabul Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official said that an explosion took ...
Survivors receive food donations near the site of a collapsed dilapidated dam that caused flooding in the village of Peshghor, northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials say...
Firefighters work at the site of a deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. An Afghan official said at least 10 people, including two int...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, arrives for a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes a photograph with a member of the military as he meets with coalition forces at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Pompeo is on a trip traveling to ...
Sikhs hold placards as they march toward Afghanistan embassy during a protest in New Delhi. The protest was against the killing of over a dozen people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus, in ...
Police and firemen work at the site of a deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Emergency personnel remove a body at the site of a deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afgha...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, right, meets with British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Boris Johnson, left, at the presidential palace 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."
