WASHINGTON: A Florida evangelical church yesterday vowed to go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Holy Qur’an on the 9/11 anniversary despite fears it may fuel an angry backlash and endanger US and allied troops in Afghanistan. The White House lent its voice to growing concern from military leaders that the incendiary move could trigger outrage around the Islamic world, as well as stoke a growing anti-Muslim tide of feeling in the US. “It puts our troops in harm’s way.
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White House warns Florida church not to burn Quran
A soldier killed in Afghanistan is named by the Ministry of Defence as L/Cpl Joseph Pool of the Royal Scots Borderers.
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Afghanistan death soldier named
A British soldier dies in hospital of injuries he received in an explosion in Afghanistan, the second British casualty in 24 hours.
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Second soldier’s death announced
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received aid commitments of US $ 1014.23 million from various countries for the flood affected people till September 2. “We have received an aid commitment of US $ 1014.23 million from various countries for the flood affected people till September 2, 2010 “, a senior official of the Economic Affairs Division said.
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Over $1bn aid commitments received till Sep 2
BERLIN: German General Egon Ramms, chief of operations of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, criticised Thursday Afghan President Hamid Karzai for failing to support NATO forces in the war against the Taliban. Ramms said in an interview with the daily economic newspaper Handelsblatt that the president “looks at things from a point of view that, in no way, we can like.” Karzai, speaking in Kabul, had said the strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink and he criticised NATO for civilian deaths in the country.
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NATO general criticises Afghan president
Ten election campaign workers have been killed in an air strike by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.
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Strike ‘kills Afghan civilians’
The head of Afghanistan’s Central Bank tells the BBC he will not allow the country’s biggest commercial bank to collapse.
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Afghan bank ‘to avoid collapse’
To look after alln the sales matters of Cement preferrably having an experience regarding export.The incumbent has to travel Afghanistan regularly.
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Am/export Officer in Peshawar
WASHINGTON: The pace of a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will be determined by the conditions on the ground, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday in a landmark address to the nation. As Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission in Iraq, he vowed American forces fighting a Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurgency in Afghanistan would begin “a transition to Afghan responsibility.” Amid growing unrest in Afghanistan, the US commander-in-chief reaffirmed US forces would begin handing over to Afghan forces next year, but appeared to temper an earlier pledge that a troop withdrawal would start in 2011.
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Conditions will set pace of Afghan pullout: Obama
FORT BLISS: President Barack Obama Tuesday warned the United States faced a “very tough fight” in Afghanistan, with more casualties and “heartbreak” to come. “We obviously still have a very tough fight in Afghanistan,” Obama told troops here as he prepared to mark the formal end of combat operations in Iraq.
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Obama warns of ”tough fight” ahead in Afghanistan
