AT-KABUL: Thirty-nine Taliban fighters were killed and 29 others wounded in the counter-insurgency operations in the past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. “The Afghan National Army (ANA) with the collaboration of the Afghan National Police (ANP) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) conducted the operations against insurgents in …

By Basir Qazizada The Taliban insurgents on Saturday rejected to take part in the direct peace talks with the Afghan government, unless their conditions were met. The militant group says it has not authorized anyone to attend negotiations brooked by Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States. Withdrawal of the …

By DWAIPAYAN REGMI-South Asia occupies more than one-fifth population of the entire world, but still the GDP is less than two percent. There are four million poor people’s living in South Asia which calculates almost thirty percent of the people here are living below the poverty line. Glancing back to …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Female journalists and media workers claim that the working condition was worsening for them. “Different challenges have hampered the work of female journalists,” deputy culture minister Sayyeda Mojgan Mustafavi said Saturday in a meeting held by the Voice of Afghan Women Journalists (VAWJ), a non-government organ …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Lecturers of the state-run universities once again came out on Saturday to protest presidential decree over higher education. They demanded abolition of the decree. President Ashraf Ghani in a decree has limited the age of the university lecturers, which the lecturers call against the higher education law. …

AT-KABUL: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford has said that he overall was pleased with what he saw and believes integration of lessons learned from operations last year will make the Afghan army and police more effective forces going forward. The US …

Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakria told reporters the other day that face-to-face talks between Afghan government and Taliban would take place soon. According to the spokesman, convening the direct talks between the representatives of Afghan government and Taliban is a shared responsibility of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG), comprising …

AT-KABUL: Stressing on withdrawal of the foreign troops from Afghanistan, exchange of prisoners and removal of its leaders names from the UN blacklist, the Taliban said that it would not participate in the direct talks with Afghan government unless the conditions were met. In a media statement issued here, the …

Afghan asylum seekers can now be sent back to their war-ravaged country after an appeal by Home Secretary Theresa May saw a blanket ban on deportations overturned. The ruling that Afghanistan is now safe enough for asylum seekers to be returned appears to defy evidence of the volatile situation in …

KANPUR:  Religion should not be used as a political tool as it causes immense harm, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said, asking Pakistan to turn a new leaf so that there is peace in the region and the countries can progress. The people of Afghanistan were “misled” in the …