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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.

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 12 people were killed and 18 others including provincial governor and the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Kabul wounded in an explosion in the southern Kandahar province on Tuesday evening, officials said. The bombing targeted governor Homayoun Azizi and the ambassador Juma Mohammad Abdullah al-Kaabi’s …

AT-KABUL: Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) has arrested 10drug runners in the past three months, said officials. CNP has apprehended 10 smugglers through different crackdown and handed over them to Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) for further criminal proceedings, said a statement issued by CJTF. Statement said that the investigation would …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least seven policemen were killed after the Taliban insurgents attacked their checkpoint in southern Zabul province, a well-placed source said on Wednesday. A local official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident took place in Arghandab district around 09:00 pm Tuesday …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: At least 30 people were martyred and more than 80 others received injuries in twin Taliban bomb blasts  in capital Kabul. The attacks were carried out one after another in Police District 7th on the Darul Aman Road, not far from the parliament building, officials said. Wahidullah …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) on Tuesday said that 23 cases of killing of women by relatives were recorded in the past 40 days, which revealing that even women are not safe at their home across the county. “Ministry has registered 23 cases of women and underage …