Kabul: At least four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were martyred following roadside bomb explosion, defence officials said yesterday.
General Zahir Azimi, spokesman for the Afghani Ministry of Defence (MoD), said the four Afghan soldiers were martyred following improvised explosive device (IED) attack in the past 24 hours.
He did not disclose further information regarding the exact location of the incident, according to the Afghan (Khaama Press).
The anti-government armed militant groups frequently use improvised explosive device to target Afghan and coalition security forces.
According to security officials, the Afghan army deaths stands at four service members daily on average which is mainly caused due to improvised explosive device attacks.
General Azimi said Afghan armed forces are currently engaged in 15 military operations conducted in 13 different provinces.
Malala angered by pop music
Islamabad: Malala Yousafzai, the activist schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, has said she is angered by how pop music represents women. The 17-year-old campaigner has claimed most female artists in the West have accepted that they should be ‘treated like objects’.
She rose to prominence after surviving an assassination attempt in October 2012 when her calls for equal rights angered militants in her homeland of Pakistan.
A bullet narrowly missed her brain and she was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where she was treated for life-threatening injuries.
The schoolgirl has settled into a new life in the city with her family, but revealed she has been shocked by some aspects of Western culture.
“What I get a bit angry about is the image of women. It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don’t often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, ‘What is this song representing? That, women are just there to be treated like objects?’
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