KABUL Truitjes Kevin De Bruyne WK 2018 , Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces operations against anti-government militants have claimed the lives of four insurgents, while bomb blast left five people injured in eastern Nangarhar province police said.
According to police, at least four insurgents were killed as government forces launched operations in the mountainous Kot district Saturday morning.
Citing Nangarhar provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal, local media reported that the operations which begun Saturday morning would last until all insurgents operating in Kot district are wiped out from the restive district and adjoining areas.
Without hinting at the possible casualties suffered at the side of the security forces during the operations, Mashriqwal said that two more insurgents sustained injuries during the crackdown which is still continuing.
The restive Kot district, according to locals, is going to change into the hotbed of the so-called Islamic State (IS) commonly known as Daesh militant group, which is more extreme than the Taliban outfit.
Daesh fighters are more brutal than the hardliner Taliban militants as the militants fighting for Daesh blown up 10 villagers with explosive devices a couple of weeks ago.
Meantime, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, the chairman of Mushrano Jirga or Afghan Senate, has called upon the central government to take bold step against anti-government militants including Daesh outfit elsewhere in the conflict-hit country.
Moreover, a roadside bomb apparently organized by armed insurgents wounded five people including a parliamentarian in Jalalabad city on Saturday, a police official said.
"A parliamentarian Abdul Ghafar along with four others sustained injuries as a roadside bomb went off in 4th precinct of Jalalabad city at around noon today," the official told Xinhua but declined to be identified, saying authorized officials would brief the media after investigation.
Saturday is the third day of Muslims largest annual religious festival the Eid al-Adha in Afghanistan where the government has put in place all security measures to enable Afghans to celebrate Eid in a peaceful environment.
Warring sides have been striving hard to gain more grounds and consolidate their footholds ahead of harsh winter in the mountainous Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad and lodged protest over the death of its soldier in Indian firing on Tuesday, officials said.
"The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a protest was lodged over the latest unprovoked cease-fire violations by India at the LoC in which a Pakistan Army soldier embraced shahadat (martyrdom) on Sept. 15, 2015 and a civilian got injured in Rawalakot today (16 September)," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Pakistani military said Indian troops "resorted to unprovoked firing" along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and killed a 20-year-old soldier of Pakistan on Tuesday.
The latest cross-border shelling took place just days after Pakistani and Indian border officials agreed to revive a 2003 cease-fire. Both countries accuse each other of violating the cease-fire.
The Foreign Ministry statement said the Pakistani government expressed its deep concern over the continuous unprovoked cease- fire violations by the Indian side at the LoC and targeting of the civilian areas.
It urged the Indian government to stop forthwith the cease-fire violations and observe the 2003 cease-fire arrangement for restoration of peace and tranquillity at the LoC and the working boundary.
RAMALLAHGAZA， June 5 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians in the West Bank， East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are marking the 49th anniversary of the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories in 1967.
After 49 years， the Palestinians will not accept less than the end of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state， Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech carried by the Palestinian state-run news agency.
On June 4， 1967， Israel occupied the West Bank， East Jerusalem， the Gaza Strip， the Golan Heights of Syria and parts of the Egyptian Peninsula of Sinai. It pulled out from Sinai following 1978 peace treaty signed in Camp David with Egypt and unilaterally pulled out from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
However， it kept occupying large areas of the West Bank， all East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights of Syria.
Abbas added the Palestinians want to establish an independent Palestinian state on the territories Israel occupied in 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.
"Our people， who provided large sacrifices over the past five decades to reach their main goal will never accept a reality that Israel has been always trying to forcibly impose， especially on Jerusalem and on our holy Islamic and Christian sites，" he said.
The Palestinians sticks to the two-state solution based on reaching a permanent peace agreement with Israel， Abbas added， stressing that the Palestinian people are united around this goal.
However， Hamas strongman Mahmoud al-Zahar said in an earlier statement that the Palestinian people believe that resuming the negotiations with Israel to reach a peace agreement "is waste of time，" and that the two-state solution is not practical.
Hamas is against the peace process with Israel and against the recognition of the Jewish state. The Islamic movement has been ruling the Gaza Strip since it violently took control of the coastal enclave in the summer of 2007.
It says Israel pulled out from Gaza due to armed resistance and not due to peace treaties.
In an interview with a pro-Hamas radio station based in Gaza， Al-Zahar slammed a French initiative on peace in the Middle East， saying it. Wholesale Spain Soccer Jerseys Hector Herrera Mexico Jersey Bastian Schweinsteiger Germany Jersey Cheap Russia Jerseys Cheap Kings Jerseys Wholesale Jets Jerseys Wholesale Sharks Jerseys Wholesale Senators Jerseys Wholesale Rangers Jerseys Wholesale Pittsburgh Penguins Jerseys