“The deadliest blasts in Kabul is aimed at undermining peace talks between the government and the Afghan Taliban,” says the chief of Awami National Party (ANP) AT-KABUL: Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP), Asfandyar Wali Khan, has condemned the deadly suicide attacks in Kabul City and termed it a …

By Abdul Saboor Sarir: On July 31, 2015, the Taliban announced on their website the death of their one-eyed, reclusive leader Mullah Omar. His actual death preceded the announcement of his death by over two years. The delay in declaring his death is understood as resulting from the need to preserve …

The attack in the Shah Shaheed neighborhood in Kabul early Friday, scores of people were ruthlessly killed and hundreds were injured is a stark reminder that how the security is weak but still there is no defense minister as the parliament has rejected four of President’s Ashraf Ghani’s picks. The …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban’s shadow deputy government for Ghazni province was among 10 militants killed in a military operation in the province, said an official source. A press statement issued by the provincial police headquarters said that security forces launched an operation in Speen Band area of Aab Band district the …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) termed youth as the main victims of wars and conflicts in Afghanistan. While talking to a session on youth’s role in bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan, The Minister of Information and Culture, Abdul Bari Jahani, said that those fighting in the …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced recent suicide attack on Kabul Police Academy that led to killing of more than 25 cadets. Hamid Karzai termed the perpetrators of the heinous act as enemies of peace, stability and development in Afghanistan. He said that the attack was in sharp contrast to …

AT: KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on insurgents to cease attacks in civilian populated areas. UNAMA termed last Friday (7th August) as the deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan since the organization began systematically recording civilian casualties since 2009. Three attacks in Kabul the other …

In a new peace bid, help is sought of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, the chief of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) and the administrator of Madrassa Haqqaniya—a religious seminary considered to be a nursery of the Afghan Taliban. AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan requested the chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S) on Saturday to …

AT-KABUL: At least 20 people were killed and eight injured on Saturday in a deadly car bombing in Kunduz province. Spokesman to the provincial police chief, Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, said that a car bomb went off around 8:00 p.m. (local time) in Bandar-i-Shurab locality of Khanabad district. Most of the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Traumatized by 12 years long imprisonment term, an inmate committed suicide in the Herat Central jail, source said on Saturday. Herat attorney general, Gul Ahmad Ramish, said that the inmate who hanged himself to death was hailing from Shindhand district of the province. According to the attorney …