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KABUL: A top US army general conducted the maiden flight of the newly-supplied UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in the presence of the senior defense officials. (Photos: NATO Resolute Support) The maiden flight was conducted by the US army Major General Neil Thurgood. “U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Neil Thurgood flew a UH-60 helicopter, which will soon join the Afghan Air Force ...

NEW DELHI: Afghan Ambassador to India Dr. Shaida Abdali says New Delhi’s relations with Kabul are not a threat to other neighbours but are aimed at the reconstruction of Afghanistan. In an interview with PajhwokNews, Abdali said Afghanistan could not cut ties with its strategic friends who posed no threats to its territory. In response to the Pakistani prime minister’s recent remarks on India’s role ...

Media predictions and polls cannot decide what must happen as this authority only rests in the hands of voters. Germany looks prone to the effects of what did happen in France–the defeat of right wing populists in France and what did occur in the United States, the victory of Donald Trump in the US. The polls result proved all the ...

Uncertainty about the future of constitutional system is growing as the current civilian setup appears to be losing control over both the external and internal dimensions of the governance in Pakistan. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the newly installed Prime Minister who seemed to be quite serious in doing not only the basics in institutional functioning but was also quick in reaching ...

KABUL: The Afghan government’s mission in the United Nations strongly reacted at the allegations of the Pakistani Prime Minister regarding the terror sanctuaries in Afghanistan by raising questions regarding the safe havens and places where the Al-Qaeda and Taliban founds were killed or died as well as the killing of the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. “My delegation ...

KABUL: The Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar strongly condemned an attempt by an individual to hit the leader of the party with a boot during the Friday prayers, calling it a move hatched by the foreign intelligence. The party in a statement said an individual who attempted to throw a boot at Hekmatyar and create an atmosphere of chaos during ...

KABUL: At least two children have been killed, and three others sustained injuries as a result of mortar shelling by Pakistani forces into the eastern Nangarhar province, an official said. The notorious Pakistan forces fired more than 37 mortars into Spinajai, Sapo, Mastal Kandaw, Darosar and Babil villages of Nazyan district. The shelling was continued from 12pm till 6pm yesterday, ...

Afghanistan’s 2017 domestic T-20 Cricket League, Shpageeza, ended peacefully Friday, with     Band-e-Amir Dragons winning the championship in final game by beating the Mis Ainak Knights by 4 runs, with last ball, bowled by oversee player, TL Chatara of Zimbabwe. In the final match, played in Kabul International Cricket Stadium, the Dragons bat first and put a total of 158 in ...

NEW YORK: The Afghan and US Presidents have agreed to boost the development of the rare earth minerals of Afghanistan in a bid to boost economy and national security of the two countries. The issue of the development of the rare earth minerals of Afghanistan was discussed during a meeting between Trump and Ghani in New York on the sidelines ...

NEW YORK: The Indian Mission in the United Nations strongly reacted to the allegations of the Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khan Abbasi during the UN General Assembly in New York city. “It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play the victim,” India’s permanent representative to UN Syed ...