AT-KABUL: India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale is expected to visit Afghanistan next week to discuss with the Ashraf Ghani government amid painstaking efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table and intensifying conflict in Afghanistan. India is seeking to convince the Afghan government to ramp up the fight against the Taliban …

AT-KABUL: While 41 days are left for a complicated Wolesi Jirga and council districts election, criticism over electoral commission’s independence and system efforts of orchestrating ragging election, is still highly persist. Grand National Coalition of Afghanistan said government has submitted a list of 400 candidates to the Independent Election Commission …

AT-MAIDANSHAR: Taliban militants have overrun the Daimirdad district in the central province of Maidan Wardak, an official said, as heavy fighting continued in the district. The district police chief has been killed in the clashes and four others wounded in a fighting that erupted last night. Civil society activist Gul …

AT Monitoring Desk-At least 20 security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on their checkpoints in northern Baghlan province, provincial official said Sunday. Taliban assaulted several checkpoints of Afghan security forces, in which 20 security forces were killed and their checkpoints captured by the militants, a provincial council member …

KABUL: A suicide bomber hit a convoy of Ahmad Shah Massoud supporters on Sunday afternoon in Kabul, killing at least seven people and injuring 25 others, officials said. The bomber rolling an explosive-laden motorcycle rammed into a motorcade of the rifle-wielding supporters who had been rallying across Kabul in commemoration …

AT Monitoring Desk-JALALABAD: Helicopters-borne Afghan security forces allegedly killed at least 12 civilians and wounded four others during an operation in Badpakh district of eastern Laghman province, residents said Thursday. Local officails confirmed the operation in the district, but they were unaware as to which forces carried out the last …

There is something doing round in mind of US officials who visited Afghanistan, Pakistan and India within a week just after Kabul hits with multiple attacks in the very nose of US troops who stationed in Afghanistan for 17-year. US Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived Kabul in an unexpected …

AT-Kabul: At the end of a two-day joint visit to Afghanistan, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, called on donors to urgently increase and sustain support for the humanitarian response. The UNHCR said that this …

AT-KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned Wednesday’s twin attacks that targeted civilians at a Kabul sports centre, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding more than 75 others. The first attack occurred when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the gym during a wrestling event. Soon …

Wednesday’s twin terrorist attacks that targeted only civilians in Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul city meant nothing but to show how savage the terrorist groups are who look for helpless people in the poor areas and target those who just want to live and work in freedom and happiness just as …