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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticised western troops as an obstacle to peace in Afghanistan as seven people including two NATO soldiers killed in fresh incidents of violence .
Paying his first visit to Afghanistan since he and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai were re-elected last year, president Ahmadinejad took issue with the policies of arch-foe Washington. The Iranian president said Tehran’s policy is full support for the afghan people and the government and reconstruction of Afghanistan and they will continue this support in the future.
His visit overlapped with one by U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, in Afghanistan to review the surge of u.s. And NATO troops set to bring their numbers to 150,000 by august.
On the third day of his latest visit to Afghanistan, today Gates toured a training centre for afghan soldiers on the outskirts of capital Kabul.
Talking to reporters he said we think Afghanistan should have good relations with all of its neighbours. But we also want all of Afghanistan’s neighbors to play an up front game when dealing with the government of Afghanistan. On the other hand British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was to deliver a speech in the united states pressing the Afghan government to step up efforts for a political solution with the Taliban to bring the conflict to an end.
Meanwhile a car bomb attack killed five afghan security personnel at a security post in Paktika.
Militants fired eight rockets at the post after the bombing, and it was not immediately clear if the number of casualties would increase.
A suicide bomber targeted a NATO-Afghan border police compound in Khost province, killing two foreign soldiers in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the "King Faisal international prize" in Riyadh.
King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz gave the award to erdogan.
The annual award is given by Saudi Arabia's King Faisal foundation to scientists and people who create a positive difference in the world and those who make a contribution to Islam. Erdogan was selected by the foundation for his services to Islam. Other prize winners including two Arabs and four westerners received awards in the fields of medicine, science, languages and service to Islam.
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Indonesia has confirmed that police have killed Dulmatin, the last main suspect of the 2002 Bali bombings.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's announcement in Canberra came a day after police said they had killed three suspected militants in two raids in Jakarta.
Dulmatin, a suspected planner of the attacks, which killed 202 people, was among those killed. President Yudhoyono who is on an offical visit to Australia addressed the country’s parliament. He outlined Indonesia’s security measures against terrorism and smuggling.
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Arab League is meeting in Qatar today to respond to Israel's decision to expand east Jerusalem settlements, as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian leaders in Ramallah.
Arab foreign ministers had agreed last week to back one last round of indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks despite their Scepticism over Israel's readiness to revive peace efforts.
Talking to reporters in Doha after his meeting with Arab League Chief Amr Musa, Qatar’s foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said, we had already had doubts about Israel's seriousness in the peace process.
He said the arab states would Pronouce their clear response to the Israeli move.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas telephoned Amr Mussa to call for urgent policy measures in response to the escalating Israeli provocations. US Vice President Joe Biden has been joined by UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon in condemning Israel's approval of 1,600 new settler homes in east Jerusalem in a move which has infuriated Palestinians.
A un statement the secretary-general reiterated that settlements are illegal under international law," the statement added.
In a separate statement, Biden said the Israeli undermines the trust we need right now and is counter to his discussions with the Jewish state.
And in Ramallah, bIden met with Palestian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in his bid to bolster new peace talks marred by Israel's blatant move. Talking to reporter before heading into talks with Biden, Palestinian Prime Minister said the Israeli move definitely undermines confidence in the prospect of the political process which we all are working very hard to see Relaunched. Biden was also due to hold talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. And in New York, protesters gathered outside the Waldrof-Astoria hotel to demonstrate against a fundraiser for the Israel defense forces.
The protest included participants from a broad swath of the religious and cultural spectrum, from Muslim to Christian to Jew; Palestinian to Israeli to American, in support of the Palestinians. A participant rabbi Yisroel Weiss from New York said the fundraiser was meant to fund Zionism which is fuelling anti-Semitism. the IDF is coming here and again they come with this aura of respectability as if they're here to protect the Jews from our 'enemies', our 'mortal enemies', when the mortal enemy is this entity of Zionism - which is the ideology behind the state of Israel. This state of Israel which is exacerbating anti-Semitism, that is the rift that has been driven between the Jews and the Muslims.]
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In Occupied Kashmir, the association of the parents of the disappeared persons has warned that a forceful agitation will be launched if the authorities did not disclose the whereabouts of the Kashmiris who disappeared in the custody of Indian troops.
A demonstration was held in Srinagar today, in protest against the Indian apathy towards the miseries of the relatives of over ten thousand missing people who were arrested by Indian army and police during the last 21 years.
Parveena Ahangar, the chairperson of the association of the disappeared persons told media that the discovery of unnamed graves in the occupied territory had clearly indicated that Indian troops were killing Kashmiri youth in custody and fake encounters. The chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir peoples movement, Ghulam Ahmad Mir in a statement in Jammu expressed grave concern over the deteriorating health condition of senior APHC Leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah. JKLF-R leaders Farooq Ahmad Dar and Javid Ahmad Mir, talking to different delegations in Kupwara said that India would not be able to suppress the liberation struggle through use of brute force.Meanwhile, the work in all the government offices including hospitals and schools in the occupied territory remained paralysed, due to the strike by the employees against the anti-people policies of the puppet authorities. In Geneva, a Kashmiri delegation met the representatives of different human rights organisations and discussed with them the latest situation of occupied Kashmir.
The delegation comprising Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Altaf Hussain Wani, Ms Shameema Shawl and Sardar Amjad Yousuf said India had unleashed a rein of terror to suppress Kashmiris’ liberation movement.
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