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AT-KABUL: An Afghan expert on Saturday slammed protests by Pakistanis against Mahmoud Khan Achakzai’s recent remarks regarding Pakhtunkhwa, saying that Pakistan has no right to forcefully change Afghan nationality through occupation. According to reports, Pakistan Muslim League-Q’s senior leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and other Pak-loyalty …

AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga of parliament on Saturday expressed deep concerns over the Daesh militants’ threats in Nangarhar, Kunar and Nooristan provinces, calling on the security officials to chalk out necessary plans for rooting out of the militants. Lawmakers claimed that Daesh was a great security threat in the eastern …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The number of Local Police casualties fell this year by 40 percent, Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. “Although war was not decreased, but the local police casualties declined in the past four months of current year, said an interior ministry official Salem Ehsas. “The casualties of …

We are unabashed optimistic when it comes to the future of Afghanistan. We spare no efforts in our capacity to rebuild our country. Long war had given birth to millions of problems and of course it’s time-consuming to resolve. However, efforts were never slow downed instead efforts were double to …

Large number of civilians were killed and injured during the month of Ramadan, Karzai said AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai in an addressing to the people on the occasion of the Eid festival has called the ongoing war in the country “an imposed war by the aliens”, in which Afghans …

President Ashraf Ghani along with a large number of the government’s senior officials is in Warsaw to participate at the NATO summit being held in the capital of one of the former members of the Eastern Bloc. The NATO leaders are reported to promise for the continuation of their assistance …

Four security guards killed at Prophet’s Mosque in Medina in third attack to hit kingdom in one day. Four security officers have been killed and five others wounded in a suicide attack outside one of Islam’s holiest sites, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said. The bombing at the Prophet’s Mosque in …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that a terror plot thwarted in southeastern Paktika province. Intelligence operatives succeeded to arrest a suicide bomber named Abdulwali through special crackdown in Urgon district of Paktika, it said in a stsatement. The suicide bomber was arrested actually with explosives …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani visited the inured policemen of the recent suicide attacks in Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital and ordered the ministry of public health to shift those injured policemen whom their treatment is impossible inside the country to abroad. Presidential officials said in a statement that Ghani asked …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan government will call on Warsaw summit to bring pressure on Pakistan to take right decision in anti-terror war in the country. The upcoming NATO summit is to be held in early July in Warsaw. “It will be impossible not to point at Pakistan’s role when you …