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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Aimed at accelerating the clearance operation, Ministry of Interior said on Saturday that it would offer cash in rewards for information about foreign terrorists and Afghan insurgents hiding in Kunduz city. Spokesman to the interior ministry Seddiq Seddiqi said that in order to speed up clearance operation …

With the Taliban threatening to overrun large parts of Afghanistan, First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum is seeking help from an old ally — Russia. A graduate of the Soviet Military Academy and a general in the Soviet-backed Afghan army, Dostum is hoping his old links to Moscow will help …

AT-KABUL: Former National Security Advisor (NSA), Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said that the National Unity Government (NUG) has wasted one year of its term and failed to bring prosperity and give hope to Afghans. “It has been one year since formation of the National Unity Government (NUG). One year is not …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salahuddin Rabbani, said that Afghans have been mobilized against terrorists. He added that Afghans would not allow any country to interfere in Afghanistan’s affairs and rule their country. The minister has recently paid a visit to Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least one person has been killed and three others injured in a series of explosions in Kabul city on Friday, security officials said. The deputy police chief of Kabul, Sayed Gul Aqa Rohani, said that three magnetic bombs went off near a Shiite Muslim’s congregation hall …

“Government of India is committed to support the Afghan civil employees through its technical facilities as this country tried its best in the last one decade for training of Afghans,” says Deputy Chief of Mission   By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Embassy of India in Kabul celebrated the Indian Technical and …

About 60 to 70 percent of the Taliban would end up reconciling with the Afghan government, General John Campbell told lawmakers here on Thursday. The US and NATO top commander in Afghanistan said he did not expect the Haqqani network, members of Al Qaeda and a section of the Taliban …

KABUL: Pakistan has once again offered facilitating another round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Pakistan reiterated the offer on Thursday amid the recent events in Afghanistan, where the Taliban captured and controlled for several days the northern city of Kunduz. Pakistan had earlier arranged the …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) foiled a major terror attack on the Ministry of Defense (MoD). According to a media statement issued by the NDS on Thursday, the spy agency foiled the coordinated terror attack by arresting five suicide bombers linked with Haqqani Network. The would-be bombers were …

By Farhard Naibkhel-KABUL: Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières MSF) sought independent investigation in the US airstrikes on its hospital in Kunduz on October 3, which claimed lives of 22 people, including 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients. General Director MSF, Christopher Stokes, said that they could not rely …