AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Pakistan on Sunday confirmed that two of its Jalalabad-based Consulate General officials have gone missing. According to the statement issued by the Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, the diplomats were on their way to their homeland, Pakistan on Friday, June 16th by car when …
Read More »Haqqani network commanders killed in Paktika
AT Monitoring desk-KABUL: At least six militants of the notorious Haqqani network including two key figures were killed during an airstrike carried out by Afghan Air Force in southern Paktika province on Sunday, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said. According to a statement issued by the interior ministry here in …
Read More »Karzai “strongly” condemns Paktia attack
AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the attack on police headquarters in southern Paktia province. In a statement, the ex-president called the attack an act by the enemy of Afghans against Islam and humanitarian law. The former president expressed deepest condolences to the victim families, wishing quick recovery for …
Read More »Ex-Taliban commander acknowledges the group’s leadership is in Pakistan
AT-KABUL: An ex-commander of the Taliban militant group who has joined the peace process in eastern Nangarhar province, admitted that Taliban’s leadership is based in various parts of Pakistan. According to a statement issued by the provincial government of Nangarhar, the insurgent militants has embraced the peace and reconciliation process …
Read More »Editorial: Cruelty in month of fasting
A group of the Taliban militants attacked the police headquarters in Paktia province in the early morning of Sunday. According to reports, the first insurgent detonated his vehicle filled with the explosives at the entrance of the police headquarters that is located in the Gardez city, the provincial capital. As …
Read More »11 killed, 18 wounded in attack on Paktia police office
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people were killed and 19 others wounded after a car bomber and multiple coordinated suicide attackers stormed Sunday the police headquarters in southern Paktia province, officials said. “First, one bomber detonated his explosives filled car in front of the police headquarters gate at around …
Read More »Foreign national kidnapped in Kabul
AT-KABUL: Unknown armed men kidnapped a foreign national Sunday in Kabul city, security officials confirmed. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for Kabul police named the abducted person as George, saying he was “from Africa”, but could not elaborate about his exact nationality of the kidnapped person. “The foreign person was abducted this …
Read More »At least 11 killed in attack on Paktia police headquarters
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people including five policemen and six bombers were killed and around 15 people including five civilians were injured in an ongoing Taliban coordinated attack against Paktia police headquarters. In first a mini-truck bomber detonated his explosive laden vehicle in first entrance of the Spinghar …
Read More »Surge of U.S. troops not solution for Afghanistan crisis: Parliamentarians
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament on Saturday said that increasing the US fresh troops wouldn’t be the solution for current crisis in Afghanistan. They said that Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) must be reviewed and Afghan forces should be equipped better in order …
Read More »Karzai asked to back Saudi, Egypt position on Qatar sanctions
AT-KABUL: The Saudi and Egyptian diplomats in separate meetings with former president Hamid Karzai, asked him to support the position of their respective countries against Qatar, Karzai’s office said Saturday. “The former president in meetings with Egyptian ambassador and Saudi charge d affairs to Kabul, called for the unity and …
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