AT-KABUL: At least 43 employees of a road construction company were abducted in southern Kandahar province after Taliban fighters attacked them, provincial official said Friday. The company is working on construction of Spin Boladak and Shorabak districts road and its employees have been attacked by the Taliban group in Sra …

AT-KABUL: Attended by representatives from Russia and the Central Asia Countries, including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, National Security Advisor Haneef Atmar participated in a security meeting on regional cooperation for counterterrorism and combating organized crime in Tashkent city. The first ever meeting security officials discussed regional security, counterterrorism, counternarcotic …

AT-KABUL: The National Security Advisor Haneef Atmar in a visit to Uzbekistan discussed key bilateral issues, including that of economic and peace cooperation with the neighboring country’s security and political officials. In a meeting with Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, NSA Atmar thanked regional countries’ initiatives and efforts, including Tashkent …

AT-KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has taken umbrage at resumption of fighting between government forces and Taliban militants, a few days after a historic ceasefire ended. He extended sympathy with families of martyrs of recent terrorist attacks and asserted that the glorious ceasefire which was honored during the days of …

The de facto Durand Line has continuously been the bone of contention between Kabul and Islamabad ever since Pakistan was coaxed into being in late 1940s. Pakistan has exerted its utmost to sabotage Afghanistan by fueling internal conflicts in the war-hit country and supporting insurgents, so that the country doesn’t …

AT-KABUL: At least 33 militants have been killed and three others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Thursday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan …

The surprised spillover of Daesh (IS) extremist groups to Afghanistan years ago, is still a big question. It is a foreign terrorist group, and it’s made-up to the war-hit country is a matter of serious concern, especially after carrying out deadly attacks, killing dozens, injuring hundreds. Daesh terrorists, which has …

AT-KABUL: The members of the peace convoy who has came from Helmand province on foot to Kabul, asked the Taliban to accept the government’s request for ceasefire extension and extend it for at least one month. These people have set a three-day deadline to give them a positive answer like …

AT-KABUL: Some religious scholars called on the Taliban militants to extend ceasefire after the group ended the three-day long ceasefire it had declared for the days of the Eid-ul-Fetr. The clerics in a gathering held Wednesday in Kabul, asked the militants to come to the peace talks with the government. …

A few people crave peace more than those who have experienced war. So much of human beings have experienced war and therefore say; never again. The Afghan masses wish and pray for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan. No one understands and realizes the blessing of peace more than Afghans. It …