EMERCOM of Russia is ready to provide assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan to help after a strong earthquake, as reported in the press-service of the department.
A strong earthquake in northern Afghanistan shook buildings from Kabul to Delhi, cut power and communications in some areas and caused more than 150 deaths, mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sartaj Aziz, the Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan is collecting evidences to show that the latest attack in Peshawar was controlled from Afghanistan.
Sartaj Aziz has told Pakistan’s The Express Tribune news agency that the relevant officials are gathering all evidence and Afghanistan will be informed after the work here is done.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) loyalists aiming to gain a foothold in Afghanistan have vowed to eliminate the Durand Line in a bid to unite and pave the way for the Muslims divided by the line.
A spokesman for the terror group’s self-proclaimed Khurasan province said the Islamic State eye to destroy the borders similar as they did between Iraq and Syria.
While periodic blog-and-print wars erupt among US poets and critics about the possible death of poetry, in other parts of the world women die for writing poems. In Herat, Afghanistan, Nadia Anjuman was one among a group of women who risked their lives to continue writing under Taliban rule, gathering under the guise of the Golden Needle Sewing School. After the Taliban fell, her first book sold 3000 copies.
