Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: A large number of youngsters from North Waziristan have demanded of the government to early arrange payment of monthly compensation to Temporary Displaced People (TDP’s) and take notice of increasing corruption and corrupt practices in Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) Disaster Management Authority (FDMA). On the call of …
Read More »Disappearance of bloggers: Activists, students, political parties protest in Peshawar
AT-PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa civil society, students and political parties workers arranged demonstration to condemn the disappearance of teacher, writer, human right activist Salman Haider and three other bloggers across Pakistan. The demonstrations had placards and banners to that had slogans to recover the writers and human right activists. While addressing …
Read More »Five Emiratis killed in Afghanistan attack
Five Emiratis were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday. The men were carrying out humanitarian, educational and development work in Afghanistan. The UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, Juma Al Kaabi, was also injured in the explosion, in Kandahar, as previously reported. The dead were named on Wednesday as …
Read More »Karzai backs Trump’s stand for improved ties with Russia
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Twitter that “having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing” KUWAIT CITY: Improved relations between Russia and the United States will be good for peace and stability in Afghanistan, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said. He added that …
Read More »Obama’s toughest decision to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan
“Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan,” says President Barack Obama AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: President Barack Obama in an interview on Sunday said that it was the hardest decision during his two terms of office to nod for a massive troop …
Read More »US to deploy hundreds of Marines to Helmand
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States will deploy a new task force of around 300 soldiers to the southern Helmand province in the spring in order to help train Afghan security forces, a military website reported late Friday. It has been reported that the troops will deployed by the US …
Read More »“First peace, then law”; How to fix failed states
EIGHT years ago Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States”. Now Mr Ghani is in a position to follow his own advice. He is the president of Afghanistan, a state that failed in the 1990s and could fail again. State failure causes untold misery (see …
Read More »Turkey extends its NATO mission in Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Turkish Parliament approved a motion to extend Turkish Armed Forces in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s support mission, a state-run press agency in Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported. Parliament empowered the government to continue Turkish troops’ presence in Afghanistan for two more years under the NATO mission starting …
Read More »US welcomes Moscow moot on Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US State Department Spokesman, John Kirby welcomed a meeting between Russia, China and Pakistan on Afghanistan held on Moscow last week. “What we welcome is any international effort to help Afghanistan become secure and more prosperous, and we continue to support, as we always have, an …
Read More »Pakistan bars citizens from entering Afghanistan without visa
Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: In according to Pakistan government’s decision of management on the Durand Line, no one is allowed to enter Afghanistan without passport at Torkham from Sunday (January 1st 2017). However, tribesmen from Shinwari and Afridi tribes are exempted of passport and visa restrictions and they are allowed to travel between …
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