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Politicians, senior government functionaries and former Jihadi leaders who attended a ceremony on seventh death anniversary of ex-chief of the High Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani called for fair and transparent legislative elections. The participants spoke about the country’s political and security situation and issues pertaining elections, underlining the importance of …

KABUL: National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib in his US tour met with his American counterpart John Bolton at the White House and discussed political and security status quo in Afghanistan and the region. Both sides discussed the effectiveness of the US Strategy for South Asia and Afghanistan. Peace negotiations …

“I hope Imran Khan would be a great visionary in putting forward a policy of friendship with India and Afghanistan,” Hamid Karzai said. Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said he has high hopes from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on that country’s relationship with India and Afghanistan for …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The opposition will deploy ‘all possible means’ to bring electoral reforms, said Ahmad Zia Massoud on Tuesday, taking umbrage at the government for surreptitiously ‘orchestrating fraud’ in the coming parliamentary elections. “We don’t want to go for a fraudulent vote, and rather we will deploy all possible …

AT-KABUL: The ongoing fiscal year saw exports rise by 32pc compared to same stint in the preceding year, said Minister of Commerce and Industries on Tuesday, thanks to cutting-edge trade and financial initiatives of considerable scale. Addressing a press conference, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industries Ajmal Hamid Abdul Rahimzaisaid …

AT-KABUL: More than 26 terrorists belonging to the Islamic State terror group have been arrested in raids conducted by intelligence operatives in Kabul, foiling plots of disrupting the coming Ashura rituals, said National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday. They had come to Kabul from across Afghanistan and were preparing …

AT-KABUL: A large number of religious scholars called for the pullout of the alien soldiers from Afghanistan, claiming that their presence had deteriorated the country’s security situation. They said in a large gathering Tuesday in Kabul that it was impossible to reach peace at the presence of foreign forces in …

AT-KABUL: The High Peace Council refuses Taliban’s demands for holding peace talks as preconditions that would “make trouble” ahead of the dialogues. Mohammad Ismael Qasemyar, an official of the council said Monday that no condition should be offered before the talks, asking the government to contemplate this. “The principle we …

AT-Kabul: Afghanistan Land Authority – ARAZI – has surveyed over 1.2 acres of state-owned land through the State Land Bank in 28 provinces of the country. A statement said the survey began on late April based on a president’s decree, and more than one million and two hundred thousand acres …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Lawmakers on Monday once again urged the administration of President Ghani to reassess the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States, a pact they believe has failed in bringing about stability in the conflict-ridden country. Legislators argued that they had sanctioned the bilateral pact in hope …