Afghan officials on Monday stopped a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight at Kabul airport, leaving 162 passengers stranded for over 2.5 hours. Reportedly, no reason was disclosed by the Afghan authorities and…
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Faiz Hameed and Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood held talks with Afghan intelligence chief, national security adviser and acting foreign minister in Kabul in a bid…
KABUL: Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul said it was indefinitely closing its consular office in the Afghan capital due to security reasons, amid mounting tensions between the neighbouring countries. Closure of the visa section…
None of the US-backed reintegration programmes enabled any significant number of ex-combatants to socially and economically rejoin the Afghan society, says an official US report sent to Congress this week. The Office…
KABUL: Police and local people searched on Saturday for more bodies in the rubble of a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province after bomb blasts in which at least 69 people were killed during…
At least 30 civilians were killed when the US bombed several drug-making facilities in western Afghanistan in May, a UN agency said in a report Wednesday, though the US military immediately disputed…
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has fired foreign ministry’s spokesman, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, over his comments on Pakistan’s talks with the Taliban, reported Afghan media on Sunday. A 12-member Taliban delegation led by its…
–Questions on transparency of polls would badly destabilise Afghanistan and non-state actors would benefit from chaos ISLAMABAD: All eyes are set on Afghanistan where the presidential election are set to take place…
NEW YORK: The United States has said it is cutting back $160 million worth of aid to Afghanistan, accusing the Kabul government of rampant corruption less than 10 days before a crucial…
KABUL: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a campaign rally by Ashraf Ghani in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, including women and children, officials said. Ghani, seeking…
KABUL: Fighting has picked up in several areas of northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, days after the collapse of talks between the United States and the Taliban aimed at agreeing the…
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad will host a trilateral dialogue between Pakistan, Afghanistan and China on Saturday amid reports that a deal between the United States and Taliban was just round the corner. This would be…
KABUL/PESHAWAR: As U.S. and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, disagreement remains about whether a pact will mean an end to the…
Three people were injured as an improvised explosive device (IED) went off outside the Pakistan Consulate General in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, said Foreign Office (FO) Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal in a tweet on…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday warned the world against isolating the situation in Afghanistan from that on the Indian front, saying both issues are interlinked. He said this while…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s badly stretched police are taking heavy casualties as attempts build to set up peace talks with Taliban militants, prompting a move to pull back from vulnerable outposts across the country.…
KABUL: Every day before dawn, 10-year-old Kamran goes to work with his father and other relatives at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul. Like many children in Afghanistan, school is…
