Tag: Kabul

Kabul’s presence a must in peace talks: Khar

Pakistan will not support a US-driven initiative to start Afghan peace talks in Qatar until it is clear that the negotiations have the backing...

Kabul to press Islamabad for access to Taliban

Afghanistan will press Pakistan for access to Taliban leaders during a one-day visit to Kabul by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, with Afghan officials...

US envoy in Kabul for talks with Karzai on peace

US envoy Marc Grossman arrived in Kabul Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai on preliminary peace negotiations with Taliban insurgents. "The United States stands...

Kabul shrine bomb death toll reaches 80: Karzai

The death toll from a shrine bombing in Kabul on Tuesday which targeted a key Shiite Muslim holiday has reached 80, Afghan President Hamid...

Pakistan asks Kabul to share blast evidence

Pakistan on Wednesday asked Afghanistan to provide evidence to support accusations that Pakistani group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi killed 55 people in an unprecedented attack on Shiite...

Karzai back in Kabul to meet shrine bomb victims

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived back in Kabul on Wednesday after cancelling a planned trip to Britain to visit victims of a bombing which...

Kabul shares info about Rabbani murder

The Afghan delegation on Wednesday shared information with Pakistani officials about the assassination of Afghan High Peace Council chief and former President Professor Burhanuddin...

‘Right time to discuss water treaty with Kabul’

The time has come to chalk out a plan to help agree a water treaty between Afghanistan and Pakistan to allow the two countries...

Haqqani network may be linked to Kabul suicide attack

The Haqqani network, which Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan, may have been involved in a weekend bombing in Kabul...

13 US troops among 17 dead in Kabul convoy attack

At least 17 people, mostly foreign forces, were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a US-run NATO convoy travelling through the Afghan capital...

10 NATO dead in Kabul attack

At least 10 foreign troops were among those killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO convoy travelling through the Afghan capital...

WikiLeaks Pakistan to allow Delhi exports to Kabul

Pakistani chief transit trade negotiator had, in private, committed to his Afghan counterpart that under a five-year transitional period, Afghanistan will be given unimpeded...

Terrorism is threat to Kabul, Islamabad, says Grossman

Recognising the sacrifices rendered by Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman said on Sunday that...

Islamabad, Kabul spar over Rabbani murder probe

A top Afghan intelligence official on Tuesday accused the Pakistani embassy of refusing to cooperate with a probe into the assassination of Afghan peace...

US citizen killed at Kabul ‘CIA compound’

A United States citizen has been shot dead by an Afghan employee at an annex to the US embassy in Kabul used by the...

Rabbani buried amid chaotic scenes in Kabul

Murdered peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani was buried in Kabul on Friday, mourned by thousands of angry Afghans including some who were forced back by...

US blames ISI for Kabul attack, Senate aims to restrict aid

US officials said there was mounting evidence that Inter Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) had encouraged a guerrilla network to attack U.S. targets, while a...