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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The National Unity Government (NUG) fired a senior member of the High Peace Council (HPC), Abdul Hakim Mujahid, for showing his love and sympathy to former comrades, the Taliban. Mujahid, who served as the Taliban’s envoy to the United Nations and Pakistan, was made part of the …

AT-KABUL: Several members of the Harakat-e-Inqelab-e-Islami (Movement of Islamic Revolution), a former jihadi party, met the former president Hamid Karzai, and commended him for his 13 years long services as the president of the country, the ex-president’s office said on Saturday. “They offered Karzai a letter of appreciation for his …

AT-KABUL: Finance Minister, Eklil Hakimi on Saturday met with Hakam Khan Habiib, governor of Khost province at his office, where the two discussed provincial development projects. “They discussed economic conditions of this province, developing and infrastructure projects, construction of industrial parks, airport and roads in this province, brining reforms and …

AT-KABUL: Militants loyal to Daesh (Islamic State) group set on fire 65 residential houses in eastern Nangarhar province. “Daesh militants have torched 65 empty residential houses in Baba Ghondi area of Kot district in Nangarhar province yesterday,” said spokesman for provincial governor Attaullah Khogiani. He said that most of the …

AT-KABUL: At least 18 armed militants were killed and 13 others wounded in different provinces in the past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. A press statement issued here ministry of interior, said that Afghan National Defense and Security Forces launched four Counter-Terrorism joint operations to clear some of the …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A report, released by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), underlined inflexibility in stance of the warring parties difficult conditions for dialogue and lack of will as main obstacles in the Afghan peace process. The report titled “Peace negotiation assessment in Afghanistan in the past four …

To fight terrorism state-to-state relations imperative: Afghan politicians to Russia By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Large number of Afghan politicians and civil society activists strongly condemned the trilateral meeting on Afghanistan which held on 27th December in Moscow. They urged Russia to focus on state-to-state relations in order to fight terrorism. Terming …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday visited the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Kabul, and expressed his heartfelt condolences and sympathy over the death of UAE diplomats killed in Kandahar on Tuesday. The ex-president also wrote a message of sympathy on the book of condolences at …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned Tuesday’s attack in Kandahar province, calling it against Islamic and human principles, carried out by the enemies of Afghanistan. The attack took place in the provincial governor’s guest house in Kandahar city, while the governor was meeting the United Arab Emirates ambassador to …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday visited the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kabul, expressing condolences for the death of former Iranian president, late Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Karzai wrote his condolence and sympathy in a special book opened at the embassy.