AT-KABUL: The newly-appointed governor for Samangan province took over office from his predecessor on Tuesday according to the Independent Directorate of Local Governance, just a day after the ousted governor refused a government order to step down and hinged his defiance on a final decision of Jamiat-e Islami party. Abdul …

AT-Kabul: Concerned over the ongoing political uncertainty, political figures and analysts have faulted Trump’s counterproductive strategy in Afghanistan and raised doubts about his willingness for peace. They believed that peace will be impossible until the U.S. has a military and intelligence presence in Afghanistan. At a monthly session of the …

AT-KABUL: As the much-orchestrated milestone trans-Afghanistan pipeline is about to be embarked upon, Afghanistan is pondering eliminating the obstacles in the path of its implementation and devising pragmatic ways of beefing up security for the project. Wais Barmak minister of interior in a session on Tuesday called on the defense …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s top peace authority has called on tribal leaders and a nationwide struggle to achieve a durable peace and alleviate the burden placed on the people. Head of the High Peace Council, Mohammad Karim Khalili said on Tuesday that if all Afghans get united, they can rescue country from …

AT-KABUL: According to the Afghan Constitution, Ghani-Abdullah’s government of national unity will end in 93 days, senior members of a political movement said Monday at a press conference in Kabul. Jombesh-e Guzar, a political party which announced its existence on May 2017, reasons that based on the Constitution the presidential …

In the wake of the unfettered political disarray, the Afghan unity government has found itself in a bind that could only be circumvented if a ‘paradigmatic politic of compromise and negotiation diplomacy’ is concocted; defiance against the government’s writ has taken a whole new shape to itself ever since a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has urged the international community to restrain the financing streams of terrorist groups and help Afghanistan in reducing civilian casualties in the ongoing war. According to the annual report of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published last week more …

AT-KABUL: Police have seized 98 kilograms of lapis lazuli in the eastern province of Nangarhar that was about smuggle to Pakistan, security officials said on Tuesday. The ministry of interior said in a statement that the gems were skillfully packed and smugglers were taking them to Pakistan—their evil design has …

AT-KABUL: At least three people embraced martyrdom and two others received injuries after an explosion ripped through Police District 2th of Jalalabad city in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials confirmed. “Three people martyred and two others wounded in an explosion—which the nature of it is yet to clear, inside a …

Musharraf admits to ISI cultivating terrorists, insists that it is the right strategy for Pakistan to counter the then Afghanistan president, Hamid Karzai’s government In an interview with the Guardian, former Dictator of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, has admitted that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) helped cultivate the Taliban to counter …