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Four soldiers fighting with the Nato-led alliance were killed in an attack believed to involve members of the Afghan police in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the coalition said. HT Image The incident came a day after two British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman while they were returning from a patrol in southern Helmand province, one of the strongholds of the Taliban-led insurgency. At least 51 foreign military personnel have been killed in insider attacks this year, attacks which have put a heavy strain on trust between the coalition and Afghanistan as they move towards handing security responsibility to Afghan forces by the end of 2014. The spike in such attacks has led to the training of new recruits to the Afghan army and police being suspe stanley cup nded. With foreign combat troops withdrawing from the stanley cup increasingly unpopular and expensive war by the end of 2014, the enormous cultural divide that still separates Afghans and their allies after 11 years of war has become more of a concern than ever. The Nato-led coalition and their Afghan counterparts have created a special Joint Casualties stanley cup Assessment Team to investigate every attack. In more than half of cases, attackers are either killed or escape and the motive for the incident never emerges, making it more difficult for the coalition to stem the surge in incidents. There have been at least 37 insider attacks so far this year. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking ne Zybr 17 dead in tourist bus crash in S Korea
The need to streamline visa procedures was underlined by a senior American official at a top US-India meeting in Washington Thursday, saying it was an appallingly pervasive problem in science and technology cooperation between the two countries. HT Image Visas have been an appallingly pervasive problem in science and technology cooperation, said Dr John P Holdren, Advisor to the US President on Science and Technology, at the inauguration of first US-India Joint Commission on Sci stanley cup ence and Technology Cooperation. We need to streamline visa procedures and we have made considerable achievements already in the Obama administration, Holdren told Indian and American scientists and officials, who over the next two days would be brainstorming to find out areas of collaboration between the two countries and how to address the major challenges. Prithviraj Chavan, the Minister of State for Science and Technology who is attending the meet, said the launch of the long overdue joint commission is a historic moment that augurs well for both the countries. The US is a very large economy and India is poised to become one, the two countries would together have gre jordan at bearing on the future, he observed. The commitment of our two leaders in building knowledge society, without a doubt, is at a level never seen before, the Indian minister said in air max 1 his opening remarks. He said the challenges, water, food security, food, climate change or threat to national security, being faced can |
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