AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, during a press conference in Kabul the other day said that the country would buy around 200,000 tons of wheat from Turkmenistan at less than 250 USD per ton and also intending to buy another 600,000 tons from Kazakhstan. Ghani said that he …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 11 civilians including children and women have sustained injuries when a rocket shell struck the residential area in Marja district of Helmand province on late Monday, the official said. The rocket was fired by the Taliban militants during their attack on security checkpoint. The provincial …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif is expected to visit Kabul soon in order to hold talks with the Afghan officials re resumption of second round of peace talks with the Taliban. Pakistani media reported that Gen. Sharif would be accompanied by a high-level …

Comprehensive debates had taken place from time to time over failures and successes of the United Nations since its establishment in October 1945. The failures are more than successes. However, it is not what perturbs Afghans but the war-weary nation is upset over failure of this supreme global body to …

NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Afghanistan Cricket Board signed an agreement this week permitting the use of the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Noida as the home ground for Afghanistan cricket team. “BCCI will be happy to help any ICC member …

AT-BEIJING:  Heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states emphasized on stronger economic growth in the SCO territory. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has represented Afghanistan in the SCO summit where he already held separate meetings with Indian, Chinese and Russian leaders and emphasized on exploiting regional economic …

Unknown gunmen shot dead an elder brother of the Afghanistan ambassador to India in a mosque in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Monday, an official said. Sardar Mohammad Khan, the brother of Shaida Mohammad Abdali, was attacked in the third police district of Kandahar City in Karteh Naw …

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed the Pakistani defense minister for insulting the Afghan people and Taliban through his recent remarks regarding the security of the trans-Afghan gas pipeline. In his speech during an event to mark the International Migrants Day in Kabul, Karzai said the remarks by Pakistani …

Afghan government has expedited work over the mechanism of sending skilled workforce to the foreign countries, especially the Arab states. The first major batch of skilled laborers will be dispatch to Saudi Arabia soon. According to the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD), Riyadh had agreed to …

Extremism is one of the main reasons behind illegal immigration: Mohaqiq By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ex-president Hamid Karzai on Monday called on Afghan youth to stay in Afghan and build their country. Talking on the occasion of International Migrants’ Day, Hamid Karzai termed illegal immigration of youth to European countries as …