Nation

AT-KABUL: The British government committed on Saturday to provide £750 million to help improve health, education and security, under a major new funding announcement. The Independent newspaper reports the money would be handed over three years and would have a particular focus on helping women and girls in “the war-ravaged …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security said on Saturday that its operatives arrested a four-people gang involved in abductions, releasing a four-year old boy held by them in the southern province of Helmand. The group with a woman as a member was arrested through an operation on the outskirts of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: After India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan boycotted the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, Pakistan announced that the summit scheduled for November 9-10 in Islamabad had been postponed ‘indefinitely’ and will now be held on an alternative date. “A new set of dates for …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai called the recent Indian forces’ attacks on what he called the “hideouts of terrorists”, justifiable to defend their homeland. “Afghanistan is the victim of terrorism and extremis for years, and we realize the need of such operation better and more than any others,” the former …

Rabbani’s 5th death anniversary commemorated By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Senior government officials and jihadi leaders on Friday commemorated the 5th death anniversary of former head of the High Peace Council and Jihadi leader Burhanuddin Rabbani. Rabbani, who was also former president of Afghanistan, was assassinates at his residency five years ago …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Kyrgyzstan, Noor Mohammad Qarqin, has completed his diplomatic mission in the Central Asian country. Upon completion of his diplomatic mission, he called on Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Erlan Abdyldayev on Thursday. During the meeting, the Kyrgyz foreign minister thanked the Afghan ambassador …

KABUL: Pakistan has welcomed the peace agreement signed between the Afghan government and Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA). The agreement was signed by President Ashraf Ghani and the HIA leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday. In a media statement Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul said that Islamabad has consistently emphasized that there is no military solution …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Kazakhstan’s KazTAG news agency reported on Friday that approximately 100,000 tourists visit Afghanistan annually. According to the report, tourism sector generates one billion afghani ($14.5 million) a year. Spokesman for Ministry of Information and Culture, Haroon Hakimi, said the tourists visit 200 sites in 12 provinces of …

KABUL: An airstrike targeting Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Daesh, was conducted yesterday in the eastern district of Achin in which at least 15 civilians were killed and 13 injured. “UNAMA condemns the killing of at least 15 civilian men and the injuring of …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan’s leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday formally signed peace agreement. Long-awaited peace deal will be implemented now after the two leaders signed it. Peace talks with Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) started two years ago. “Ending war, rescuing Afghans from dependency on strangers and …