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BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN-President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (right) speaks with Kevin Baron of Defense One (left seated) at the NATO Engages event in Brussels on July 12 Unlike in the past, there is now a “real” and “constructive” dialogue on bringing peace to Afghanistan and this effort …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned recent airstrikes by the foreign troops in the Zormat district of Paktia and Khogyani district of Nangarhar provinces, calling them irresponsible acts. “With regret, I learned that military operations and bombardments in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces, killed civilians including women and children and …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Flash floods have killed 10 people in northern Panjshir province and caused serious damage to property and livestock with sweeping out 300 houses, officials said Thursday. “10 people, including two women lost their lives due to heavy floods,” provincial governor spokesman, Abdul Hodod Ali Mardan told Afghanistan …

The ongoing conflict is swallowing schools, burning classrooms with a foremost deprivation of schoolchildren from pursuing education which is their basic rights. Sometime, the Taliban militants are entering inside a school firing out of the windows against security forces. In exchanged firing, the school building is partially damage that also …

AT-KABUL: In a multiple attack on security checkpoints in northern Kunduz province, at least 31 Afghan security forces embraced martyrdom and over 50 Taliban insurgents were killed and wounded in retaliation budge, official said Thursday. The Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Daesht-e-Arachi district on Wednesday night, martyring 31 security …

AT-KABUL: At least 20 people including Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haroon Bilour were killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar on Tuesday night. Bilour, whose father Bashir Bilour was killed in a suicide attack in 2012, was targeted on Tuesday night at an election gathering in the Yakatoot area. He …

AT-KABUL: Protests over the arrest of militia commander Nizamuddin Qaisari have spread in the north as outraged protesters on Wednesday shut down provincial offices of the Independent Election Commission in Faryab and Sar-i-Pul provinces. Protesters warned that the election offices will not reopen until the government provides the grounds for …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people were killed and 10 others wounded after Daesh militants staged a stabbing rampage on the education department in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday morning, officials said. Two Daesh-linked terrorists raided the provincial education department in 5thpolice district in Jalalabad at around nine o’clock …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission, says that the government’s disinterest in introducing new commissioners of the commission has created obstacles for its works, adding that the government was responsible for all the challenges of the commission in investigating complaints. Basir Faez, a member of the commission said Wednesday that …

AT-KABUL: Hopes on first vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum’s returning home have increased following the second vice president Sarwar Danesh’s meeting with Dostum in Turkey. But the office of the first vice president said Wednesday that Danesh had no official message from President Ashraf Ghani to his first deputy. Enayatollah …