Nation

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Fifty-three per cent of the female journalists and media workers say that their families are unhappy and even against their work with the media, a survey released by a media watchdog, said. The survey launched by the Afghanistan Journalists Safety Committee, has interviewed 100 female journalists and …

AT-KABUL: Army Chief of Staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem on Wednesday termed announcement of the Taliban spring offensive as mere propaganda and said that they group would be defeated as last years. “Army and police forces including intelligence personals are well prepared to defend the Afghans in ever hooks of …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) asked the Afghan government to provide necessary trade facilities in order to invest in Afghanistan. Speaking at the joint press conference with Atiqullah Nusrat, Chief Executive Officer of the Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI), Chief of …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces in different crackdowns against Taliban insurgents during 24 hours, had killed at least thirty-one Taliban fighters. In addition thirty rebels received injures during operations. Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a press statement, said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) …

AT-KABUL: Two school students were killed and four others injured after a rocket landed on a school in Mehtarlam city, in the eastern Laghman province, education ministry said Tuesday. “The rocket landed at the vicinity of Shahid Maulavi Habib-ur-Rehman high school this morning,” the ministry said in a statement. It …

AT-KABUL: Taliban on Tuesday announced its spring offensive entitled “Operation Omari” across the country, saying that Afghan and foreign troops would be their most targets. In a statement the group said that operation began at 05:00 am on April 12. The statement said that the operation would employ large scale …

KABUL: Prominent diplomat and former foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta in an article published in the Hasht-e-Sobh daily, has analyzed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remarks about the serving government in Afghanistan, saying that political power in the country is not structured by the people’s intention via a …

AT-KABUL: In protest to the education ministry’s decision to omit 11th, 12th degrees in a number of Bagrami district high schools, hundreds of people staged demonstration. The ministry of education says the decision has been taken due to dozens of problems such as lack of professional teachers, text books and …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that an ammunition cache of the Haqqani terrorist network was discovered and confiscated in Kabul. In a statement the NDS said that its operatives managed to discover and confiscate an ammunition cache belonged to the Haqqani terrorist network in Tarakhil …

AT-KABUL: The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) agency, a body monitoring the Central Asia’s investments, granted the best investment award for 2015 to the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA). The AIM is launched by United Arab Emirates every year with the aim to improve investment ties and discussion over trade issues …