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AT-KABUL: Afghanistan celebrates its 99th Independence Day on Saturday with zeal and fervor. It was on this day almost a century ago that our proud and united nation stood against the colonialist British Empire and liberated itself from the yoke of invaders. Today too, we stand united to break the …

The situation of children is an unmitigated melancholy. Children of Afghanistan continuously bear the brunt of an imposed and uncalled-for war. They are suffering from a conflict to which no end seems at sight. The growing violence all across Afghanistan is taking toll on lives, education, health and wellbeing of …

AT-KABUL: Inmates in the Pol-e-Charkhi prison continue hunger strike, saying they were deprived of presidential amnesty orders, transferring them to the jails in their respective provinces, misbehavior by the jailers and bad accommodation. The inmates have claimed that some of their fellow-prisoners have died due to the strike, while some …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Election Commission emphasizes on the importance of its decisions regarding the election process, saying the process should not be sabotaged. It asked for the political parties’ cooperation with the process, saying that hurting the process would be in the benefit of nobody. The commission also says that …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai condemned with strongest terms a terrorist attack on Wednesday afternoon on an educational center in Kabul that left tens of students killed and injured. The bombing was an explicit example of crime against humanity perpetrated by the enemies of Afghanistan who are frightened by progress these …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday it was concerned about a recent threat of the Taliban against the global panel. The Taliban recently declared an intention to withdraw their security commitment to the International Red Cross, accusing it of negligence towards situation of …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: After almost a week of siege and violent onslaught, Afghan security forces have retaken full control of southern Ghazni as the militant Taliban have been pushed out of the main city and a handful of nearby villages, and a semblance of normalcy has returned there, said the …

AT-KABUL: In series of terrorist attacks against civilians, 48 civilians were martyred and 67 more injuredafter a terrorist detonated his explosive belt among hundreds of students in an educational center in west of Kabul city. The bomber, on foot and disguised as student, detonated the explosives, attached to his body, …

Afghanistan is not a secure place either to live or to work in. This is what the sworn enemies are trying to inject in our mind. This is our motherland and we will make it secure with our blood. We will never abandon our garden with different flowers such as …

AT-KABUL: The battle to retake Ghazni is drawing to a close as Afghan armed forces advanced on Tuesday against Taliban in most of parts of the beleaguered city and militant positions kept shrinking amid a full-scale counterassault that began the day before, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Afghan security forces …