John Kerry and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif agree on the “need for all sides to reduce tensions”. US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to prevent terrorists from using Pakistani territory as safe havens, as he expressed strong concern over the violence in Kashmir …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan Women Network said it has drafted the women’s demands to present in the Brussels conference to seek support for their rights. “As we are at the eve of the Brussels conference, we collected women’s demands from 21 provinces there,” head of the network Hasina Safi said …

AT-KABUL: The United Arab Emirates has promised to donate six billion dollars for the infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, a government official said Tuesday. “About $5-6 billion will be donated by the United Arab Emirates, all in infrastructure projects,” Ali Ahmad Osmani, minister of water and energy told reporters, adding that …

AT-KABUL: A key commander for the Taliban fighters was killed in a clash with security forces in the southeastern province of Ghazni, ministry of interior said Tuesday. It added in a statement that a group of Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoint in the Panah localities of the province late Monday. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A delegation has been assigned to probe bombings, allegedly carried out by foreign forces against a police checkpoint in southern province of Uruzgan, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement. According to the statement issued Tuesday, the delegation will report back to the ministry. According to …

AT-KABUL: At least 68 Taliban insurgents including forty-two Daesh terrorists group were killed and twenty-one others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Tuesday. “The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that 37 Daesh and al-Qaeda fighters were killed during operations conducted by intelligence forces across the country in the past one week. Intelligence operatives with the cooperation of the NATO-led Resolute Support troops conducted operations against Daesh and al-Qaeda fighters in Nangarhar, …

President Ghani also expressed his condolences to the families of the martyred soldiers. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Tuesday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and condemned the ‘cross border attack’ in Uri while expressing solidarity with India to eliminate the threat of terrorism. President Ghani strongly condemned the cross-border terror …

Pakistan’s Pakhtun nationalist leaders have decided to wage a joint struggle for bringing peace to the region, including Afghanistan, the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief says. Mahmood Khan Achakzai told a mammoth public meeting in Balochistan’s capital of Quetta late on Monday, theleaders would ask the government for a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least eight Afghan National Police (ANP) troops were killed in a US airstrike targeted their checkpoint in central Uruzgan province, a provincial official said on Monday. The checkpoint in the Saki area of Tirinkot, the provincial capital on the Uruzgan-Kandahar road was bombed on Sunday evening, …