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 …

Since end to the combat mission of NATO, the Taliban have changed their strategies. For them there is no break in winter now. The militant group thinks that it can come into power once again through extreme violence. Therefore, the group had accelerated the speed of subversive activities. All those …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned Tuesday’s attack in Kandahar province, calling it against Islamic and human principles, carried out by the enemies of Afghanistan. The attack took place in the provincial governor’s guest house in Kandahar city, while the governor was meeting the United Arab Emirates ambassador to …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday visited the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul, expressing condolences for the death of former Iranian president, late Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Karzai wrote his condolence and sympathy in a special book opened at the embassy.

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 12 people were killed and 18 others including provincial governor and the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Kabul wounded in an explosion in the southern Kandahar province on Tuesday evening, officials said. The bombing targeted governor Homayoun Azizi and the ambassador Juma Mohammad Abdullah al-Kaabi’s …

AT-KABUL: Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) has arrested 10drug runners in the past three months, said officials. CNP has apprehended 10 smugglers through different crackdown and handed over them to Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) for further criminal proceedings, said a statement issued by CJTF. Statement said that the investigation would …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least seven policemen were killed after the Taliban insurgents attacked their checkpoint in southern Zabul province, a well-placed source said on Wednesday. A local official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident took place in Arghandab district around 09:00 pm Tuesday …

Five Emiratis were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The men were carrying out humanitarian, educational and development work in Afghanistan. The UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, was also injured in the explosion, in Kandahar, as previously reported. The dead were named on Wednesday as …

Afghanistan is lagging behind from the regional countries in almost all sectors that one could name. Both, people and government are blameworthy. Public could not turn face from responsibilities by criticizing the governments for ills that we have hands in. Afghan people have failed to protect the historical sites while …