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Rejecting to take action against Afghan Taliban, the adviser to Pakistan’s premier on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that his country could not fight “Afghanistan’s war on its own soil”. In these days Islamabad is under crippling pressure from Washington because the former failed to target Haqqani Network, the Taliban …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the suicide attacks in Kabul and Badakhshan provinces that killed and injured a number of foreign citizens and innocent people. Presidential palace in a statement denounced Monday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul where 14 Nepalese were killed, nine people (five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians) …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Monday gave vote of confidence to the nominee for defense ministry Abdullah Habibi, chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, and member of the High Council for Supreme Court Mohammad Zaman Sangari. Stanekzai achieved 161 votes out of …

PM Modi, who has made as many as 40 foreign trips in the two years since taking charge, may soon get a taste of flying in the advanced aircraft fitted with the latest in technology. The prime minister of India is set to get a brand new Air India One …

AT-KABUL: Nai—an organization supporting open media in Afghanistan said Monday that 10 cases of violence against journalists had been registered within past 20 days. The organization termed the ongoing month was the most violent for journalists. Seddiqullah Tawhidi, head of the watchdog said that two murders, four beatings and torture …

AT-KABUL: At least 10 people were killed and over 40 others were wounded after an explosive went off in a district bazaar in northern Badakhshan province Monday morning, officials said. “Ten people were killed and over 40 others mostly civilian were injured, after roadside hidden explosive devices blew up in …

AT-KABUL:At least 14 Nepalese citizens working for a security company were killed, nine people including five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians were injured on Monday morning when a suicide bomber targeted a mini bus carrying the Nepalese guards in Kabul city, officials said. The attacker rammed into the minibus in …

AT-KABUL: A man was arrested by police for supplying arms to the Taliban in Baghlan province, interior ministry said Sunday. The ministry said that the supplier was arrested with two other armed insurgents in the Dushi district. Separately, the ministry said that a key Taliban commander Qari Zahir who was …

AT-KABUL: A key figure of the Taliban was killed along with seven comrades in an airstrike in northern Kunduz province, said Ministry of Interior. Key Taliban figure Qari Ali with his seven fighters was killed in airstrike in Taraki area of Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz provinces. This group involved in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Deputy foreign minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai is to visit Islamabad today (Monday), for talks to remove differences over the Torkham border crossing issues with Pakistani officials. He would visit Pakistan based on an official invitation. After tensions escalated between Afghan border guards and Pakistani paramilitary forces at …