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AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Sunday met with the French and Turkish ambassadors to Kabul where he condoled with them over recent incidents. During meeting with French Ambassador François Richier, Karzai expressed deep sympathies and condolences to the French people and government over the recent terrorist attack in the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Top American military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson said that the recent coup attempt in Turkey would have no impact on the US-led campaign to support Afghanistan in the war on terror. In an interview with Associated Press, he said that more than 500 Turkish troops …

 By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Senior official said that armed militants gain their major financial support from cultivation, production and smuggling of narcotic and threat security of Afghanistan. Second Vice of President Mohammad Sarwar Danish said that Taliban insurgents and the terrorist networks comprise the largest smugglers of the narcotics in Afghanistan. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Right Commission (AIHRC) alleged that due to the government’s negligence in women and children’s rights protection, the forced child marriages has remained a matter of concern. “Lack of law enforcement, inappropriate traditions, existence of insecurity and immunity of culprits has been the …

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, a Pashtun nationalist leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, urged Islamabad and Kabul to normalize the fragile bilateral relations. Chief of his own political faction, Qaumi Watan Party, said that removal of trust deficit between Pakistan and Afghanistan is imperative to ensure security in the two countries …

AT-KABUL: Some 8,000 Afghan refugees have been arrested in Khaybar-Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan since the beginning of the current year, media have reported. Security officials of Peshawar confessed that 8,000 Afghan refugees have been arrested by police in different areas of Khaybar Pakhtunkhwa, 1TV Channel reports. Peshawar police have claimed the …

AT-KABUL: At least 23 Daesh loyalist fighters were killed in drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province within past 24 hours, officials said Sunday. “These Daesh loyalist fighters were killed in two separate drone strike conducted by foreign troops in Nazian and Kot district,” said Provincial Governor Spokesman Attullah Khogianai. He …

AT-KABUL: At least 16 Taliban insurgents were killed and six others were wound in separate air and ground raids of the Afghan forces in southern Helmand Province on Sunday. Afghan forces raided on a Taliban hideout in Saffron area of Sangeen district, killing 10 insurgents and wounding six others, said …

Civilians are the most victims of the war in the world. Someone find it very visible to see what is happing on civilians in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, even to the peaceful states like some European countries and Turkey, where they are the victims only. There is no denying to the …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission reports of 9,431 civilian casualties, 17.8 per cent increase in April 2015 to April 2016. Suicide attacks, ground engagements and mine explosions are counted as main reasons behind the enhance, head of the commission Sima Samar said Saturday. She said that …