AT-KABUL: Fierce anti-government and pro-Dostum protests that began with the arrest of Faryab’s Qaisar police chief days ago have spread across the north, as hundreds of protesters shut down on Friday provincial office of the Independent Election Commission. Nizamuddin Qaisari, a close aide to the exiled First Vice President Abdul …

Media reports on Friday were saying that the first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum is going to come back home after being away for a long time.The reports have quoted reliable sources close to President Ashraf Ghani that Dostum will return home on Monday from Turkey, where he is staying …

BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN-President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (right) speaks with Kevin Baron of Defense One (left seated) at the NATO Engages event in Brussels on July 12 Unlike in the past, there is now a “real” and “constructive” dialogue on bringing peace to Afghanistan and this effort …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned recent airstrikes by the foreign troops in the Zormat district of Paktia and Khogyani district of Nangarhar provinces, calling them irresponsible acts. “With regret, I learned that military operations and bombardments in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces, killed civilians including women and children and …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Flash floods have killed 10 people in northern Panjshir province and caused serious damage to property and livestock with sweeping out 300 houses, officials said Thursday. “10 people, including two women lost their lives due to heavy floods,” provincial governor spokesman, Abdul Hodod Ali Mardan told Afghanistan …

The ongoing conflict is swallowing schools, burning classrooms with a foremost deprivation of schoolchildren from pursuing education which is their basic rights. Sometime, the Taliban militants are entering inside a school firing out of the windows against security forces. In exchanged firing, the school building is partially damage that also …

AT-KABUL: In a multiple attack on security checkpoints in northern Kunduz province, at least 31 Afghan security forces embraced martyrdom and over 50 Taliban insurgents were killed and wounded in retaliation budge, official said Thursday. The Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Daesht-e-Arachi district on Wednesday night, martyring 31 security …

AT-KABUL: The former head of anti-corruption office said the creation of a new department titled ‘Inspection Office’ is feared to perform as a “political arm” for the government. President Ashraf Ghani has ordered for the creation of an inspection office to meet complaints regarding the activities of senior government officials. …

AT-KABUL: At least 20 people including Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haroon Bilour were killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar on Tuesday night. Bilour, whose father Bashir Bilour was killed in a suicide attack in 2012, was targeted on Tuesday night at an election gathering in the Yakatoot area. He …

AT-KABUL: Protests over the arrest of militia commander Nizamuddin Qaisari have spread in the north as outraged protesters on Wednesday shut down provincial offices of the Independent Election Commission in Faryab and Sar-i-Pul provinces. Protesters warned that the election offices will not reopen until the government provides the grounds for …