AT-KABUL: The battle to retake Ghazni is drawing to a close as Afghan armed forces advanced on Tuesday against Taliban in most of parts of the beleaguered city and militant positions kept shrinking amid a full-scale counterassault that began the day before, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Afghan security forces …

AT-KABUL: A prominent Pakistani senator Afrasiab Khattak said on Tuesday that the Pakistani government was behind the terrorist rampage and the fighting in Ghazni city, describing Islamabad’s Afghan policy as ‘unmitigated disaster’. “Pakistani government needs to explain reports about the dead bodies of Pakistanis coming in from the war in …

The recent intensive fighting in Ghazni city, a strategic urban center less than 100 miles from the capital, Kabul, besides martyring of dozens of Afghan soldiers and police officers, it has also heavily punched people in embattled city by scarcity of food. It also cut communications and severing the main …

AT-KABUL: People faced shortage of food, water and medicine in southern Ghazni as fighting between the armed forces and the Taliban triggered a closure of routes leading to the city, said UN agency on Tuesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesdayvoiced concerns that the …

AT-KABUL: Some 17 convicted drug traffickers have been sentenced to short and long term in prison over the past week, said the court of criminal justice task force on Tuesday. CJTF in a press statement said the primary and appeal court of CJTF have convicted 17 smugglers to two and …

AT-KABUL: The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), denounced the closure of electoral offices by protesters in Kabul and Badakhshan as an insult for the constitution. It said that such things would disorder electoral programs and is against the origin of democracy, asking the government to take practical measures to …

AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan is optimistic to the direct talks between Taliban representatives and the US diplomats, because it believes such dialogues would help negotiations between Kabul administration and the militants. Atta Salim, deputy chief of the High Peace Council has told the Guardian that this (US-Taliban talks) was …

AT-KABUL: A number of political parties called on the independent election commission to not print the voting ballots until the government meets their demands. The parties emphasized in a statement released on Tuesday that millions of dollars would be wasted in printing the useless ballots if their demands are not …

AT-KABUL: The sanctions recently announced by the US government on Iran would not hurt Afghan business, the government said, citing “different sources” link Kabul to the world markets. President Ashraf Ghani’s Spokesman, Shah Hossein Mortazavi, said Tuesday that the sanction could hurt some other regional countries’ economy. “As the closure …

AT-KABUL: At least 12 border police officers were killed and five others injured in a Taliban attack in the northeastern province of Takhar, officials in the province confirmed Monday. The attack took place late Sunday night in the Dasht-e-Qala district, said Khalil Asir, provincial police spokesman. “The Taliban insurgents made …