KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has opposed with the bid to close the Taliban office in Qatar as he insisted that his party supports the legitimate demands of the group. Hekmatyar made the remark during a meeting with the trial elders of Hood Khel in his office on Sunday. He said we want t the government that the ...
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Post-US-strategy-environment offers new opportunities for Afghanistan: Ghani
KABUL: In the wake of new US strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia the environment has changed and new opportunities have come into existence for Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani told a high-level British official on Monday. British Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth, Mark Field, and his accompanying delegation called upon President Ghani at the Presidential Palac, according to a statement. Both ...
Read More »‘Bajwa’s visit to Kabul a deceive move’
KABUL: Former Heads of National Directorate of Security (NDS), Amrullah Saleh, and Rahmatullah Nabil reacted to the recent visit of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Qamar Javed Bajwa, calling on the government to stay vigilant as Pakistan duplicity is known to all. Amrullah Saleh called Bajwa’s visit a deceive act, calling on the government not to magnify this journey as ...
Read More »وزیر داخلہ کا داخلہ منع ہے / طارق افغان
آج صبح اسلام آباد میں احتساب عدالت کے باہر جو کچھ ہوا یہ عام عوام کیلئے کوئی نئی بات نہیں البتہ خواص کیلئے یہ ایک غیر معمولی واقعہ ہے۔ رینجرز نے اپنے ہی اعلی حکام کو روک کر اس پات پر مہر ثبت کی ہے کہ یہ ملک عوام کے منتخب نمائندے نہیں بلکہ تھرڈ امپائر چلا رہے ہیں۔ واقعے ...
Read More »50 dead, 200 injured in Las Vegas concert shooting, IS claims responsibility
People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard. ─ AP A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers ...
Read More »پاکستانی آرمی چیف کا دورہ کابل : توقعات اور خدشات / ایمل خٹک
پاکستانی فوج کے سربراہ جنرل قمر جاوید باجوہ کے دورہ کابل کے حوالے سے دونوں ممالک میں کافی تبصرے اور بات چیت کی کامیابی کے حوالے سے قیاس آرائیاں ھورہی ہے ۔قطع نظر اس بات کہ فریقین نے اس موقع پر کیا بیانات دئیے مگر بنیادی بات عمل کی ہے ۔ اس سے قبل سابق آرمی چیف نے فروری 2015 ...
Read More »Austria’s Burqa Ban law comes into force
Violations carry a possible fine of nearly $180. Police are authorised to use force if people resist showing their faces. HEIDELBERG: A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria. Starting on Sunday, wearing a ski mask off the slopes, a surgical mask outside ...
Read More »Iran recruited Afghan boys as young as 14 for the Syria conflict: HRW
KABUL: The Human Rights Watch in its latest report has revealed that young Afghan boys as young as fourteen years old have been recruited by Iran to fight in Syria. According to a new report by the Human Right Watch, the children have been recruited y the Revolutionary Guard of Iran and several of them have been killed and buried ...
Read More »Pakistanis among 4 detained on charges of supplying weapons to Afghan militants
KABUL: At least four people including two Pakistanis have been arrested on charges of supplying weapons and ammunition to the anti-government armed militant groups in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The provincial government in a statement said the men were arrested during an operation from Momand Dara district. The statement further added that the suspects had placed eight rounds of ...
Read More »Enemy’s agenda to divide Afghans will fail: President
KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says Afghans are one nation and believed in one creed, a fact the enemy of Afghanistan should know and believed that they will never be able to divide this nation. The president expressed the view in a gathering marking 10th Muharramul Haram or Ashura Day at Imam Zaman Mosque here. He said: “our enemy should know that effort to divide us will fail. We ...
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