As usual, it is not easy to choose news about events in Pakistan over the last one or two weeks for making comments. The deadly terrorist attack on a court premise in Shabqadar (Charsada), after a similarly bloody  attack on Bacha Khan University in the same district some time back, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States of America added two members of the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor in the list of global terrorists. “The State Department has designated Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under second 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives rescued a teenage boy kidnapped in Khost province and arrested four suspects, an NDS official said. “The 15-year-old boy was kidnapped 27 days ago from the Lakano area on the outskirts of Khost city,” said the NDS provincial director Col. Barakatullah. “The …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: In the last ten years, land disputes have become a permanent feature of Afghanistan’s landscape and also a primary driver of conflict in the country. Land grabbing has reached its peak in the past 10-year, mainly after the collapse of Taliban regime. Land mafia groups have increased …

The Taliban’s coordinated attack on the Greshk district headquarters ended on Thursday leaving all the ten attackers dead. Four policemen died and 12 others injured in the line of duty. The district in restive Helmand province is strategically very important. If such attacks continued it would bring the government’s capability …

The former Afghan interior minister and ex-Ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad Omar Daudzai have questioned Pakistan’s sincerity in Afghan peace process, saying Islamabad is approaching its own interests in the process. Daudzai was speaking during an event marking the 5th anniversary of the assassination of Mawlana Syed Kheli, the former police …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday strongly condemned Pakistani army airstrikes against Afghan soil in eastern Afghanistan and warned that such violations could damage relations between the two countries. “Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemns Pakistani army’s airstrikes on Dangam district of Kunar province,” Karzai’s media office …

AT-KABUL: Afghan army targeted a group of Daesh fighters in eastern Nangarhar province of the country and killed five of its fighters, the military’s press office in eastern Afghanistan said on Friday. The operation was carried out last night in Achin district of the province, the press office for Selab …

Afghanistan, powered by Mohammad Nabi  (4/20) and Mohammad Shahzad (41) romped to a six-wicket win over Hong Kong in the World T20 qualifier game on Thursday. The Asian minnows and Zimbabwe will now fight for a place in the Super 10 on Saturday. Afghanistan and Zimbabwe will compete for a …

PENTAGON— The Taliban is fracturing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a known Taliban stronghold, a U.S. general in Kabul said Thursday. General Wilson Shoffner told reporters via telephone that the U.S. is seeing an “emergence of three separate Taliban groups” in northern Helmand, and that all three factions are largely not loyal …