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President Ghani also expressed his condolences to the families of the martyred soldiers. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Tuesday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and condemned the ‘cross border attack’ in Uri while expressing solidarity with India to eliminate the threat of terrorism. President Ghani strongly condemned the cross-border terror …

Pakistan’s Pakhtun nationalist leaders have decided to wage a joint struggle for bringing peace to the region, including Afghanistan, the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief says. Mahmood Khan Achakzai told a mammoth public meeting in Balochistan’s capital of Quetta late on Monday, theleaders would ask the government for a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least eight Afghan National Police (ANP) troops were killed in a US airstrike targeted their checkpoint in central Uruzgan province, a provincial official said on Monday. The checkpoint in the Saki area of Tirinkot, the provincial capital on the Uruzgan-Kandahar road was bombed on Sunday evening, …

AT-KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has met with a number of the Afghan migrants in Germany, his office said Monday. “Karzai who is for a visit in Germany, went to a school provided by the German government for the Afghan migrants,” it said in a statement. The statement added that …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that its operatives had killed at least five Pakistani terrorists in a Special Forces operation in southern Zabul province. “The operation was carried in Naseran village of Mizan district of the province against al-Qaeda terrorist network cell which was operating in province, …

Illiteracy rate is too high in Afghanistan. The country direly needs well-educated people in different sectors to become self-sufficient as currently people of different nationalities are working here to fill the vacuum in the job market. They are employed by both private and public sectors. As a matter of fact …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday rejects all what he called “negative rumors” and declared support of the peace deal with the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Abdullah said that “we have no tension about peace and its result with any group.” “Our …

AT-KABUL: Some 260 Taliban fighters have been killed and 213 others were injured during operations in the southern province of Uruzgan, defense ministry said Monday. These insurgents were killed and wounded during the ground and air attacks by Afghan forces in the past five days, the ministry said in a …

AT-KABUL: Two civilians were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Kandahar province, a local official said Sunday. The provincial governor spokesman Samim Ikhpelwak said the blast targeted a civilian van in Shah Wali Kot distract of the province on early morning. “They were traveling from Kandahar city to …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Sunday said that 9,555 self-burning cases have been recorded across the country this year. “We have registered 2,016 cases of eating poison and 9,555 cases of self-immolation across the country in 2016,” a senior official at the ministry told Afghanistan Times. He called depression …