AT-KABUL: Ex-President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan strongly condemned the terror attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda (BKUC) on Wednesday. In a telephonic conversation, both Hamid Karzai and Asfandyar Wali Khan termed attack on the university an attack on …
Read More »Assets gone gory
Terror attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has proved once again that war against terrorism and extremism in the region has utterly failed and the militants are still enjoying support. The groups that were termed “strategic assets” have gone gory. The godless militants have killed at least 21 …
Read More »Remembering Bacha Khan on his 28th death anniversary
KABUL: Across the Durand Line and in other parts of the world, on Wednesday Afghans have observed the 28th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also widely known as Bacha Khan. Born in 1890, in the town of Utmanzai in what was formerly known as the ‘North West Frontier …
Read More »Militants storm Bacha Khan University, leaving 21 dead, scores injured
“The non-violent soldier of Islam died 28 years ago, but the terrorists continue to attack his legacy” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A group of militants stormed Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkha on Wednesday morning and opened fire on students and faculty members. At least 21 people were …
Read More »BACHA KHAN UNIVERSITY ATTACK: AT LEAST 20 KILLED, 60 OTHERS INJURED IN ONGOING ASSAULT
Taliban gunmen attacked a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday morning, killing 20 people and injuring at least 60 others, and are still on the rampage, according to police and people still trapped in the varsity premises. Shaukat Yousafzai, a minister in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhaw provincial government, told media the death …
Read More »US lauds Australia for support in Afghan mission
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Obama administration on Tuesday commended Australia’s support to stay beside the United States in its mission in Afghanistan to train and advice Afghan security forces. US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had shed lights on the need of close cooperation …
Read More »Policy of non-interference to improve ties with Kabul: Aziz
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Special Advisor to the Pakistani premier on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, Sartaj Aziz, has said that policy of non-interference in the matter of other countries would help to improve relations with Kabul and New Delhi. Addressing his country’s National Assembly, he said that Pakistan government had taken …
Read More »Financing militancy
Nawaz Sharif’s Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan’s policy of non-interference in the affairs of other countries has played key role in improvement ties with Afghanistan and India. However, the facts suggest something else, much more different than what Sartaj Aziz sketched. The fact is that Islamabad is …
Read More »Kazakhstan to export goods to Afghanistan via Iranian territory
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran, Mojtaba Damirchilu, during a press-conference in Astana said that Kazakhstan could use Iranian territory for the export of products to Afghanistan and other countries bordering Iran. “If we talk about relations between Kazakhstan and Iran in the future, we can highlight …
Read More »Stable Afghanistan vital for regional peace: Achakzai
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As long as there is no stability in Afghanistan, insecurity and instability would continue haunting the South Asian region, a senior Pakhtun nationalist leader said. Chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Mehmood Khan Achakzai has said that peace is impossible in the region without ensuring stability …
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