The line that Mortimer Durand drew across a small map in 1893 has bled the Pashtun heart ever since. More than a century later both sides of that line remain restless. But the mystery behind what actually happened on 12 November 1893 has never been solved. Why did Amir Abdur …
Read More »Afghan envoy for more collaboration in health sector
Pakistan established 3 hospitals in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD: The Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Omar Zakhilwal said the other day that collaboration between two countries in the sector of health will help in improving the relations of two neighbouring countries. He was speaking at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where he met with …
Read More »Editorial: 28 years after Soviet withdrawal
The former Soviet Union’s army was pulled out of Afghanistan on February 15, 1989 after a decade of bloody invasion. The Red Army came to the country in late December 1979 with the call of Babrak Karmal, one of the Soviet-backed regime’s officials to topple his rival Hafizullah Amin. But …
Read More »Ghani says ‘Afghan security forces will defeat, chase Taliban in valleys, mountains’
By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Among the concerns that the upcoming spring would be a bloody one with serious fighting, president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, on Tuesday warned that the country’s security forces will “defeat” the militants and will “chase them in every valley and mountain” of the country in coming spring. President, …
Read More »Afghan-EU officials discuss government’s post Brussels conference action
AT-KABUL: Eklil Hakimi, finance minister met Franz- Michael Skjold Mellbin, the European Union ambassador and special representative for Afghanistan, talking on the government’s actions after the Brussels conference. The finance ministry said Sunday that the two sides also discussed the implementation of commitments on mutual accountability-based, national priority programs and …
Read More »Karzai condemns foreign airstrike in Sangin
AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned the airstrike carried out by the foreign warplanes in the Sangin district of Helmand province, as well as the suicide bombing in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. Around 20 civilians were reportedly killed in an airstrike carried out by the US air …
Read More »Female employees to decrease further, if harassment continues: MoWA warns
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) on Sunday expressed deepest concern over rampant of harassment on women at workplace in governmental and non-governmental offices. It said that if the harassment did not control, women employees would be decreased in governmental offices. “Harassment on women at workplace has …
Read More »Saving riches after 13-year
“Govt. has retaken control of some important mineral deposits in Kapisa after longtime” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government has retaken control of some important mineral deposits in the Ala Sai district of central Kapisa province after 13-year, local officials said on Sunday. Ghulam Naqshbandi Sapi, the district chief, told Pajhwok …
Read More »Foreigners among 10 militants killed in Badakhshan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 10 militants, including foreigners were killed and 14 others received injuries during an operation carried out in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday. Ahmad Navid Frotan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the operation—codenamed Kokcha 011—was launched in the Juram district …
Read More »Editorial: Time for empty talk over
The recent gathering in Moscow—a trilateral series of consultations between Russia, China and Pakistan had discussed Afghanistan issues without presence of Afghanistan’s representative, where at somehow frustrated Afghan officials and also projected American failure to deliver peace in Afghanistan. However to recover the slip-up, Moscow would host a meeting in …
Read More »