Editorial

Noting the street crimes – muggings – purse, laptop, and cell-phone snatching – robberies and growing criminal fists on helpless Kabul residents, left no other choice but to bring the First Vice President Amrullah Saleh to the fore, aiming to clean up the city of a citywide robbery division. As …

The residents of Kabul, a capital city filled with nearly six million populations, are deeply worried over armed robberies and aggravated burglaries at gunpoint and they are absolutely left at the mercy of these bag-snatch criminals as the security situation is deteriorating on a daily basis. Their miseries are getting …

AT News KABUL: 43 captives, including members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and civilians, were freed from a Taliban prison in Shah Joy district of Zabul province in a military sting conducted by the Afghan National Army. 20 of the released captives including four civilians were …

Afghanistan and the U.S. are not darling to each other, but the U.S. will not withdraw from Afghanistan, once a top official had said. But Afghanistan, with its enormous tensions, needs to set its own house in order or at least to refrain from provocative remarks that bedevil the most …

October 7th marks the 19 years of the collapse of the Taliban’s regime. A lot has happened since then. After nearly two decades of war, the Taliban are now pushing for a return to power, having signed a landmark troop withdrawal deal with the US in February and currently holding …

The Afghans after over 40 years of war have to untiringly try to break the cycle of devastation because that extreme scuffle and suicide bombings have become a trademark in the war’s brutality. The Afghans are carrying the legacies of loss and determination for decades now. The war that has …

As peace talks in Doha are obstructed by spats over which Islamic Jurisprudence to pick for resolving issues that might arise during the parleys, the situation on the ground in Afghanistan is lamentable. Although the Chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) has recently claimed the rift over the …

Though the coronavirus cases are slowly fading away and things getting to normal, the effects of the virus-induced pandemic are going to last longer and be problematic – as everything was reshaped worldwide, including Afghanistan. The Ministry of Public Health reported that seven positive cases were registered only in Kabul …

Positive vibes are emanating from Pakistan in the wake of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) Chairman Abdullah Abdullah’s foray to the country. As the three-day visit of Abdullah comes to an end, friendship overtures have been made by Pakistan. Most of the Pakistani leadership authorities dubbed the commencement …

The snippets of information emanating from the intra-Afghan talks in Doha indicate that snail-paced progress is being made in the talks which are aimed at paving the way for more substantive negotiations. Both sides reported that contact groups of negotiating teams in Doha held yet another meeting on Sunday evening …