CIA-backed Afghan forces 'committed war crimes', new report says

Afghan strike forces backed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have committed abuses "amounting to war crimes", according to a new report. Human Rights Watch alleges the troops "committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability". These include extrajudicial killings, indiscriminate airstrikes, and kidnappings.

Also on the programme: India formally divides the states of Jammu and Kashmir into two new federally-administered territories; and a train fire in Pakistan has killed at least 70 people.

(Picture: Human Rights Watch based its report on dozens of witness and local resident accounts. Credit: AFP/Getty).