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AT-KABUL: Scores of people staged demonstration Wednesday in Kabul to protest government over the growing insecurity in the eastern Nangarhar province. Protesters said insecurity had a significant increase in Nangarhar, threatening people’s lives. Mirwais Amarkhel, a protester said that people were cruelly killed by armed insurgents while the government officials …

AT-KABUL: President of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan claimed Wednesday that foreign intervention was the main reason of terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that the exploitation of the establishments of the two countries were part of foreign agenda. In a statement,Khan said that the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During a media interaction at the Pentagon, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Brigadier General Wilson Shoffner, had praised the capability of Afghan security forces. Taliban were unable to hold ground in Afghanistan as Afghan security forces got better in their performances …

AT-KABUL: Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has strongly condemned the terror attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. Denouncing the attack in strongest possible terms, Hamid Karzai said that such attacks are against Islamic teachings and human values, adding that attacks on people living on both sides of the …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan strongly condemned the terror attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda (BKUC) on Wednesday. In a telephonic conversation, both Hamid Karzai and Asfandyar Wali Khan termed attack on the university an attack on …

KABUL: Across the Durand Line and in other parts of the world, on Wednesday Afghans have observed the 28th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also widely known as Bacha Khan. Born in 1890, in the town of Utmanzai in what was formerly known as the ‘North West Frontier …

“The non-violent soldier of Islam died 28 years ago, but the terrorists continue to attack his legacy” AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A group of militants stormed Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkha on Wednesday morning and opened fire on students and faculty members. At least 21 people were …

Taliban gunmen attacked a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday morning, killing 20 people and injuring at least 60 others, and are still on the rampage, according to police and people still trapped in the varsity premises. Shaukat Yousafzai, a minister in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhaw provincial government, told media the death …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Obama administration on Tuesday commended Australia’s support to stay beside the United States in its mission in Afghanistan to train and advice Afghan security forces. US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had shed lights on the need of close cooperation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Special Advisor to the Pakistani premier on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, Sartaj Aziz, has said that policy of non-interference in the matter of other countries would help to improve relations with Kabul and New Delhi. Addressing his country’s National Assembly, he said that Pakistan government had taken …