Tag: Kabul
IMF unlocks aid after Afghan govt pledges reforms
The Afghan government has welcomed the IMF's move to reopen credit lines to Afghanistan two years after corruption fears surrounding the Kabul Bank crisis...
The poppy palaces
‘Just look at this view,” said my guide, as he waved his arm expansively from right to left. We had just emerged onto the...
Suicide bombing in Kabul
A suicide attack was launched on a traffic police building in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said on Monday.
A car bomb...
Suicide attack targets Afghan intel HQ in Kabul
A suicide attack targeted the Afghan intelligence agency headquarters on Wednesday, followed by sounds of gunfire in a tightly-secured area of Kabul housing key...
Winter’s deadly bite returns to refugee camps of Kabul
The snow that fell on a refugee camp in Kabul last week left thick powder piled voluptuously on the sagging roofs of huts and...
Govt consent a must for peace talks: Kabul
Direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban may take place outside the country through official processes, including creation of the rebel movement’s...
Afghan intelligence chief hurt in Kabul bombing
The head of Afghanistan’s intelligence service has been wounded in a suspected suicide bombing in Kabul, interior ministry officials said. They said that Asadullah...
Pakistan backs Ulema conference: Khar
Pakistan has expressed full support for the Ulema conference to be held in Kabul in January next.
This assurance was given by Foreign Minister Hina...
Taliban storm Afghan bazaar, kill five, lose 25
A senior Taliban commander and 24 of his fighters were killed in a battle with Afghan security forces in a northern village which also...
Pakistan made industrial exhibition opens in Kabul
The first-ever Pakistani industrial exhibition opened at International Hotel here with the participation of more than 85 Pakistani companies.
In his opening remarks, the deputy...
Kabul to move UNSC against ‘Pakistan cross-border attacks’
Afghan Foreign Ministry officials on Thursday announced that the ministry would lodge a complaint in the UN Security Council against cross-border incursion by the...
Female car bomber kills 12 in Kabul
A female suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in an assault insurgents said...
Female car bomber kills 12 in Kabul: officials
A female suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in an assault insurgents said was...
Violent film protests erupt in Kabul and Jakarta
Protests Monday turned violent for the first time in Afghanistan and Indonesia over an American film mocking Islam as hundreds of angry men clashed...
Bomber kills six teens in Kabul
A suicide bomber struck outside NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six street children a day after the United States moved to blacklist...
Taliban say Badar Haqqani alive, Afghans confirm he is dead
The Afghan intelligence authorities on Sunday confirmed the killing of Badarud Din Haqqani, son of the founder of Haqqani network, in a recent US...
US reacts cautiously to Kabul’s foreign hand claim on ‘insider attacks’
Reacting cautiously to Kabul’s claim that foreign intelligence services were mainly responsible for the “insider attacks” by Afghan uniformed personnel against their US mentors,...
