Former US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has revealed Washington‘s efforts to oust Afghan President Hamid Karzai by attempting to manipulate the country's election in 2009.
US forces stationed in Afghanistan have gunned down a four-year-old boy, and the incident prompted a rebuke from President Karzai who is refusing to sign a security pact with the US unless it gives assurances of civilian safety.
Pakistan has freed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, from jail, says a senior official of the Pakistani Interior Ministry.
Afghanistan has suspended talks with the US on a deal that would allow US troops to remain in the country after 2014, officials said, in a clash over proposed talks with the Taliban.