KABUL: A private radio station in Afghanistan has shut down after numerous threats from a suspected Taliban commander who objected to women working as presenters, officials at the radio station said on…
UNITED STATES: Academy Award-winning actress and refugee activist Angelina Jolie pushed for the inclusion of women in peace talks to end the conflict in Afghanistan during an address to ministers and diplomats at…
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in an interview to a local media outlet stated that Pakistan wants the Taliban to settle the 17-year-old conflict with the Afghan government and negotiate. He further…
Pakistan has excluded Afghans from the list of foreign nationals who are offered visa on arrival in the country, according to a media report. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director Immigration Asmatullah Junejo…
KABUL: Two Afghan police officers were gunned down by a fellow policeman in southern Kandahar province, the latest in so-called “insider” attacks in the war-battered country, a spokesman said Saturday. According to…
KABUL: Contenders in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections kicked off their campaigns Friday ahead of next month’s balloting as authorities reported that five candidates were killed in violence in the run-up to the campaigning…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will embark on one-day Kabul trip on September 15. It would be his first foreign visit in the incumbent position following the invitation of his Afghan…
BEIJING: China will train Afghan troops on Chinese soil, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Beijing said, describing the military cooperation as an effort to fight al Qaeda and Islamic State militants bent on attacking…
LANDAU IN DER PFALZ: A German court Monday jailed a failed asylum seeker who claims to be from Afghanistan for stabbing his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend to death, in a case the far-right has…
KABUL/PESHAWAR: The Taliban rejected on Monday an Afghan government offer of a ceasefire and said they would persist with their attacks, militant commanders said, while insurgents ambushed three buses and nearly 200…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed the Afghan government’s declaration of a ceasefire during the upcoming religious festival of Eid -ul-Azha. Pakistan fully supports all such efforts that contribute to achieving durable stability and…
KABUL: Afghan forces were still battling the Taliban in parts of Ghazni on Saturday, a day after the insurgents launched a multi-pronged assault on the eastern city. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who left the country last year amid allegations of sexual abuse and torture, will return home on Sunday after more than a year in…
KABUL: The Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is hosting a two-day conference to encourage peace talks to end Afghanistan’s nearly 17-year war. The OIC, a 57-nation organization based in Jiddah, began the…
KABUL: An Afghan official says a district chief has been killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Ghor province. Abdul Hai Khateby, provincial governor’s spokesman, said Saturday that Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim…
KABUL: Gunmen shot and killed a senior police special forces commander who was known as a dogged anti-Taliban warrior barely 24 hours before President Ashraf Ghani’s unilateral cease-fire was to end at…
KABUL: Hundreds of Afghan peace marchers arrived exhausted in the capital, Kabul, on Monday after spending the fasting month of Ramadan crossing the sun-baked, war-torn country, much of it under Taliban control.…
