AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” condemned the recent airstrike on the Dasht-e-Archi district in the northern Kunduz province in which civilians were killed. “The former president calls air raids that target houses, schools and hospitals under the pretext of fight against terrorism as anti Islamic act and against all …

By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA-In democratic societies, elections are the basis for establishment of a representative and legitimized governments. Afghanistan has been grinding in war for the last more than four decades, wrecking destruction on our national institutions, national resources and infrastructure and this has taken huge toll on the very …

AT-KABUL: At least 45 militants were killed and 13 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal …

AT-KABUL: Some members of the parliament accused the High Peace Council of being at the government’s service, saying the council has turned to a place for government campaigns. They also said Monday that they doubted the council’s independence, adding it should be shut. The leadership of the peace council was …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India’s seventh consignment of wheat to be sent to Afghanistan arrived at Iran’s Southeastern Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar on Monday, it has been reported. “India’s cargo vessel named Arezoo carrying 600 containers arrived in Chabahar port in Sistan-Baluchestan province,” Hossein Shahdadi, an official with the province’s …

AT-KABUL: The health ministry in joint venture with Bayat Foundation on Monday laid foundation stone of a maternity hospital within Indira Ghandi Children’s Hospital compound in Kabul. According to a press statement, the 100-bed maternity hospital will be built in four floors and will have many facilities including a blood bank, eye and ear …

Long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections has been planned for 20th October, almost three years past the expiry of the sitting parliament’s five-year mandate – despite major security and logistical challenges and amid pressure of increasingly impatient international partners and consecutive security brass promises to hold the elections prelude to …

AT-KABUL: A cricket stadium with international standards was opened Monday in Kandahar province. Indian government has financed the project. The inauguration of the stadium took place with the presence of the provincial officials, Indian ambassador to Kabul and a large number of the businessmen and cricket fans. Kandahar provincial governor, …

AT-KABUL: Over 20 Taliban fighters including a key member of Quetta Shura have been killed and 15 others wounded, after Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban gathering in Northern Kunduz province on Monday. Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban meeting in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz and killed over 20 Taliban …

AT-KABUL: The enemies of education have sprayed poison into a school in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, sickening about 43 schoolgirls in what authorities suspect is a case of group poisoning. Public Health Director Dr. Aminullah Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News the poisoned girls were evacuated to Bost …