AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai condemned with strongest terms a terrorist attack on Wednesday afternoon on an educational center in Kabul that left tens of students killed and injured. The bombing was an explicit example of crime against humanity perpetrated by the enemies of Afghanistan who are frightened by progress these …
Read More »ICRC voices concern over Taliban warning
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday it was concerned about a recent threat of the Taliban against the global panel. The Taliban recently declared an intention to withdraw their security commitment to the International Red Cross, accusing it of negligence towards situation of …
Read More »Amid the rubble, the city returns to pre-war normalcy
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: After almost a week of siege and violent onslaught, Afghan security forces have retaken full control of southern Ghazni as the militant Taliban have been pushed out of the main city and a handful of nearby villages, and a semblance of normalcy has returned there, said the …
Read More »Kabul suicide bomb; 48 martyred, 67 injured
AT-KABUL: In series of terrorist attacks against civilians, 48 civilians were martyred and 67 more injuredafter a terrorist detonated his explosive belt among hundreds of students in an educational center in west of Kabul city. The bomber, on foot and disguised as student, detonated the explosives, attached to his body, …
Read More »Armed forces advance in Ghazni as Taliban positions shrink
AT-KABUL: The battle to retake Ghazni is drawing to a close as Afghan armed forces advanced on Tuesday against Taliban in most of parts of the beleaguered city and militant positions kept shrinking amid a full-scale counterassault that began the day before, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Afghan security forces …
Read More »Bodies of Pakistani fighters coming from Ghazni; Afrasiab Khattak
AT-KABUL: A prominent Pakistani senator Afrasiab Khattak said on Tuesday that the Pakistani government was behind the terrorist rampage and the fighting in Ghazni city, describing Islamabad’s Afghan policy as ‘unmitigated disaster’. “Pakistani government needs to explain reports about the dead bodies of Pakistanis coming in from the war in …
Read More »People face hunger as routes to Ghazni closed
AT-KABUL: People faced shortage of food, water and medicine in southern Ghazni as fighting between the armed forces and the Taliban triggered a closure of routes leading to the city, said UN agency on Tuesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesdayvoiced concerns that the …
Read More »17 drug traffickers sent to prison
AT-KABUL: Some 17 convicted drug traffickers have been sentenced to short and long term in prison over the past week, said the court of criminal justice task force on Tuesday. CJTF in a press statement said the primary and appeal court of CJTF have convicted 17 smugglers to two and …
Read More »Closure of electoral offices, an affront to Constitution: TEFA
AT-KABUL: The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), denounced the closure of electoral offices by protesters in Kabul and Badakhshan as an insult for the constitution. It said that such things would disorder electoral programs and is against the origin of democracy, asking the government to take practical measures to …
Read More »Afghanistan pins hope on U.S.-Taliban talks
AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan is optimistic to the direct talks between Taliban representatives and the US diplomats, because it believes such dialogues would help negotiations between Kabul administration and the militants. Atta Salim, deputy chief of the High Peace Council has told the Guardian that this (US-Taliban talks) was …
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