AT-KABUL: The number of terrorist attacks is on the rise in Afghanistan, and security situation in Afghanistan remained a challenging, Russian officials said. “We urge the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and to take urgent action to launch intra-Afghan dialogue,” Russian …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A report, released by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), underlined inflexibility in stance of the warring parties difficult conditions for dialogue and lack of will as main obstacles in the Afghan peace process. The report titled “Peace negotiation assessment in Afghanistan in the past four …

Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: A large number of youngsters from North Waziristan have demanded of the government to early arrange payment of monthly compensation to Temporary Displaced People (TDP’s) and take notice of increasing corruption and corrupt practices in Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) Disaster Management Authority (FDMA). On the call of …

To fight terrorism state-to-state relations imperative: Afghan politicians to Russia By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Large number of Afghan politicians and civil society activists strongly condemned the trilateral meeting on Afghanistan which held on 27th December in Moscow. They urged Russia to focus on state-to-state relations in order to fight terrorism. Terming …

About 50 families are mourning as three terrorist incidents claimed the lives of nearly fifty people in the provinces of Kabul, Kandahar and Helmand, in which about 100 others were injured. The attacks took place near the parliament building in Kabul, inside the provincial governor’s residence in Kandahar and a …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday visited the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Kabul, and expressed his heartfelt condolences and sympathy over the death of UAE diplomats killed in Kandahar on Tuesday. The ex-president also wrote a message of sympathy on the book of condolences at …

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John Sopko, had presented a very bleak picture of Afghan security forces on Wednesday in Washington. Sopko said that corruption was rampant in the Afghan security forces. According to the US inspector, the security forces have suffered heavy casualties and barely hold …

By: Matthew Graydon-Afghanistan – Walking into the narrow, cramped courtyard of Shamsur Rahman’s home in Jalalabad city, it is difficult to imagine that his family of ten can live there. But they do, and so do the families of his three brothers, writes Matthew Graydon. Shamsur Rahman and two of …

By Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: Expressing satisfaction over performances of military courts, established in the wake of deadly terrorist attack on Army Public School Peshawar, parents of killed children have demanded its extension. “Military courts have been established to award exemplary punishment to terrorists and lead to 80 per cent reduction in …

AT-PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa civil society, students and political parties workers arranged demonstration to condemn the disappearance of teacher, writer, human right activist Salman Haider and three other bloggers across Pakistan. The demonstrations had placards and banners to that had slogans to recover the writers and human right activists. While addressing …