KABUL: A protest that was staged earlier on Sunday over the arrest of a local commander Alipoor turned violent after demonstrators ran amok and set some police outposts on fire in Western Kabul. A spokesman for the Kabul Police, Basir Mujahid, said that hundreds of ethnic Hazaras rallied from Dasht-e-Barchi …

Kabul: At least 54 insurgents were killed and 40 others wounded in military offensives by security forces in northern Kunduz province, officials said Sunday. Afghan forces with support of NATO forces launched an offensive in Kunduz and killed at least 54 militants and wounded 40 others over past three days, …

KABUL: Former national security advisor Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta said Sunday that terrorism is a state instrument which Pakistan uses against Afghanistan and India and that the unscrupulous neighbour had asked Kabul years before to cut ties with New Delhi as precondition for political engagement. Spanta made his remarks during …

KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock on Sunday said that eight water irrigation canals have been inaugurated in northern Balkh province. The construction work of eight irrigation canals for agriculture lands completed and inaugurated in Balkh province. The canal construction work cost a sum of afn 106.5 million, said …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The NATO Chief has expressed his concern over come back of the Taliban terrorist group if the foreign troops leave the country. “If we leave, Taliban will come back,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said speaking at Mediterranean Dialogues Conference in Rome. “The cost of leaving is higher …

Couple of days back, three worst kinds of terror acts occurred. One deadly in Khost province of Afghanistan, two happened at two different places of Pakistan. In Khost we lost a number of our brave Afghan soldiers and over 20 injured, while in a bomb explosion in Aurakzai Agency over …

AT-KABUL: Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the commander of Resolute Support Mission and U.S. forces in Afghanistan has arrived on western Farah province late on Saturday, retreating support to the Afghan security forces and praised their bravery in fighting terrorism. He assured NATO’s full support to the Afghan security forces against …

AT Monitoring Desk-Son of Sami ul-Haq, a Pakistani cleric who was assassinated earlier this month, has said that his father was killed at a time when he was preparing to mediate for Afghan peace process. Sami, known as the “Father of the Taliban” for having taught some of their leaders, …

AT News Report-KABUL: The head of Kabul Ulema Council, Mawlawi Abdul Basir Haqqani has been assassinated in a terror act of violence in Chehel Sutun area in Kabul’s PD7 at around 2pm local time, Kabul police confirmed on Saturday. Haqqani was found dead on a road in Chehel Sutun area …

Peace building, conflict resolution, conflict prevention, whichever term you use, sits uneasily within one particular field, discipline, or government department for that matter. Is it development, foreign policy, diplomacy, defense and security, justice and human rights, any or all of the above? Perhaps it is amazingly surprising to want peace …