AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that a Taliban weapons and ammunition supplier was arrested in Kabul. The intelligence operatives arrested two insurgents who were supplying weapons and ammunition for Taliban fighters in Kabul, said NDS in a statement. The captured insurgents identified as Ikram and …
Read More »Questioning ministers is Wolesi Jirga’s right: Qadeer
Deputy speaker warns against interference in parliamentary affairs By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of the parliament on Sunday said that the interpellation and voting against ministers is the legal right of members of the Wolesi Jirga and no organ has the right …
Read More »Daesh kill religious scholar in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: The Daesh terrorists have killed a religious scholar in the Rodat district of the eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said on Saturday. “The victim was identified as Maulawi Abdul Samed who was Imam of a mosque in Qala Akhond area of Rodat district,” provincial governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said. …
Read More »Reaping the whirlwind
By ZAHID HUSSAIN-THE targets may be different but the perpetrators of the two deadly attacks carried out in Balochistan in the space of one month are the same. The responsibility of the carnage at the shrine in Khuzdar as well as the slaughter of police cadets in Quetta have been …
Read More »The Sino-US relations: Recalibration or Repetition?
By Qi Lin0-“The Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval control is not a challenge but rather a boost for the US Asia-Pacific –even an overall– posture. Calibrating the contraction of its overseas projection and commitments – some would call it managing the decline of an …
Read More »Disqualification of ministers: ‘Lawmakers can’t resist deals, tribal affiliations’
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Legislators and political analysts have continued to lambaste members of the Wolesi Jirga for what they call the dual standard on disqualification of ministers who failed to spend the target (70 percent) development budget. Expressing surprise and anger over decision of the MPs to give immunity to …
Read More »Editorial: Power shortage
Residents of the capital city, Kabul, have been suffering from the shortage of the electricity power for a couple of months and just prior to the cold weather of winter. Although there is not any official justification for the shortage, but unofficial reports say that the surge in use of …
Read More »Baloch observe Martyrs Day
AT-KABUL: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) had organized memorial events in Balochistan and abroad to pay tributes to martyrs of Baloch freedom struggle. In a statement issued from London the other day, the movement said that every year Baloch nation organize memorial services and events on 13 November to remember …
Read More »Senior ANP leader Haji Adeel dies
Karzai expresses condolence AT-KABUL: Senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) Haji Mohammad Adeel passed away on Friday in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Born on October 25, 1944, the former senator died due to heart attack. His funeral prayer was offered at 4:00 pm in Peshawar. …
Read More »Editorial: Climate and insurgency
Climate change is real, whether the government accepts it as a universal truth or turns a blind eye to the stark reality. It has and would have tremendous effects especially when it comes to the war against insurgency. How climate change is affecting the anti-terror operations can be judged from …
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