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KABUL: Nato said on Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other agencies of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year."While numerous challenges remain, there are some basic facts that highlight the improved security across the country," said US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).Dunford said in a statement that almost eight million children are in school, 40 percent of whom are girls, compared with one million -- almost all boys -- under the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule.In 2002 only nine percent of Afghans had access to basic healthcare while now 85 percent can reach medical facilities in an hour, he said, and life expectancy was steadily rising. "Under the Taliban, there were only 10,000 fixed phone lines, and today there are over 17 million people using cellphones," Dunford said.Women now hold more than 25 percent ...
SAVAR: At least 15 people were killed and many more feared dead when an eight-storey building housing a market and garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said.Only the ground floor of the Rana Plaza in the town of Savar outside Dhaka, which also housed a bank branch, remained intact when the incident occurred at about 9:00 am (0300 GMT), said the officials."So far we have recovered 15 dead bodies," said Major Zehadul Islam, ...
KABUL: A group of foreigners abducted by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan are well and have been moved to a "safe area" inside the country, a spokesman for the militants said on Tuesday.The Taliban leadership will decide what to do with the group, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. Eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan were seized after their helicopter made a forced landing on Sunday."They have been moved to a safe ...
KABUL: Two Russian crew members were on board a chartered helicopter which made an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan, the charter firm said on Monday.Afghan officials said earlier Monday the passengers and crew were seized by Taliban insurgents after the helicopter landed on Sunday evening in Logar province south of Kabul.The company said it had no information about what happened to the passengers and crew.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
DHAKA: The speaker of Bangladesh's parliament Abdul Hamid was as elected unopposed as president Monday, a potentially crucial role as the restive country heads for elections next year, officials said.Hamid is a 69-year-old stalwart of the ruling Awami League party who has been serving as acting president of the Muslim-majority nation after the death of his predecessor Zillur Rahman on March 20. "Abdul Hamid has won the election uncontested. The chief election commissioner declared him ...
GHAZNI: Six Afghan police were killed on Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an "insider", officials said, in the latest such attack to hit Western-trained security forces.The militants stormed a police post in the Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said."One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping," district chief Fazul ...
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