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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday (9 September) warned Islamabad that he would close the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if his country’s traders were not allowed to use Lahore’s Wagah border for trade with India. Speaking during a conference with the UK’s special envoy for …

KABUL: The security forces have given tit-for-tat response to the Taliban’s attack in Trinkot, the capital city of southern Uruzgan province, security officials said on Friday. “Around 204 insurgents were killed and 146 other injuries after heavy clashes erupted between Afghan security forces and the Taliban,” provincial governor spokesman Dost …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iran’s Roads Minister Akhundi joined Baligh, Afghanistan’s Public Works Minister and Hakimi, Afghanistan’s Minister of Finance at the ceremony to start construction of the 3rd segment of rail track connecting the two neighboring countries. According to MEHR News Agency, the third segment of the rail corridor of …

There were numerous developments in the past three months which raised concerns over the political and security situation of the country. Skepticism was its peak as all hopes were faded. The government was facing severe criticism for its failure to improve security situation and thwart terror attacks, especially large scale …

Foothold of foreign-backed extremism is getting stronger in Afghanistan with every passing day. The foreign intervention that had begun hundreds of years ago is still causing destruction. In the modern age, the faces of destructive forces had changed. So has changed the nature and scale of the destruction. Now the …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces in a counter attack have repulsed a massive Taliban offensive in surrounding areas of the capital city of southern Uruzgan province and pushed the militants back around 15km from the city center, officials said Thursday. The militants suffered heavy casualties in the fighting, after reinforcement, including …

Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam. The whole nation is not only proud of being Muslim, but also they take pride to be called extremist Muslims! They think the almighty God has granted them the divine license to kill all those Afghan people who sought help from …

The death and destruction, unleashed by the local militants and their foreign supporters, are dancing in every nook and cranny of the country. As the violence grows, more people die or injured. In the past two years, insurgency has grown rapidly. The local population and foreigners are not feeling safe …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Since Afghan refugees in Pakistan were harassed and also illegal put behind bars, some 70,000 registered Afghan refugees were voluntary repatriated to Afghanistan from northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province during current year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. According to the Voluntary Repatriation Centers of United Nation …

35 people killed, more than 100 wounded, mostly civilians in a series of suicide attacks in Kabul; three terrorists killed in Shahr-e-Naw after 11 hours-long battle; security forces successfully rescued 42 people, including ten foreigners. Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 35 people, including security forces, were killed and more than 100 …