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KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with the Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan as the two sides discussed the current situation in the region. The Office of the former President in a statement said the former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai met with the Ambassador of Pakistan Mr. Zahid Nasrullah Khan in his office on Monday. The statement further ...

Afghanistan has been pressing for greater Indian assistance in defence supplies and capacity building for a long time. Rabbani further said that his country’s friendship with India does not mean hostility to any other country and that it is not a zero-sum game. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday asserted that India will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with ...

The film follows the teenaged Nisha as she struggles to accommodate both Norwegian and Pakistani cultures in her life. Pakistani-Norwegian director Iram Haq’s film What People Will Saypremiered at Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) to a positive response from the audience. The film, which takes some of its inspiration from the director’s life, is based on the life of Pakistani-origin teenager Nisha ...

KABUL: Top Afghan and Indian officials are due to meet in New Delhi, the capital city of India, in the aftermath of the new US policy for Afghanistan and South Asia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan in a statement confirmed that the foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani will meet with the Indian officials during his visit to New Delhi. ...

KABUL: Famous writer and poet Saduddin Shpoon has passed away at the age of 85 at a hospital in the United States of America. He had long been living in America, where he was admitted for medical treatment to a hospital. He breathed his last on Sunday. Shpoon, hailed as a renowned Pashto prose writer and critic, penned some novels and composed ...

The Dalai Lama has spoken out for the first time about the Rohingya refugee crisis, saying Buddha would have helped Muslims fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent weeks after violence flared in neighbouring Myanmar, where the stateless Muslim minority has endured decades of persecution. The top Buddhist leader is the latest Nobel peace ...

KABUL: The Afghan history and culture’s historic friend Nancy Dupree, a well known American historian, died at the age of 90 in Kabul. Nancy was admitted to a hospital due to an illness she was suffering from and died late on Saturday night. Born in India to American parents in 1927, Madam Nancy for the first time moved to Afghanistan ...

KABUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate between Afghanistan and Pakistan and help them restore bilateral ties, the Presidential Palace said on Sunday. During a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the Turkish president said he was ready to play his role in rehabilitation between the neighbors. President Ghani thanked his Turkish counterpart for his support in ...

KABUL: Patriotism costs lives of people in the countries likes Afghanistan that comes under target of superpowers, former president, Hamid Karzai said. “Being patriotic is a crime in Afghanistan and the patriotic people are killed,” Karzai addressed a gathering Saturday in Kabul to mark Ahmad Shah Massoud’s death anniversary, saying that Massoud lost his life in this way. “Massoud was ...

“We will take the risk to go to every corner of the country. We want our children to learn how Afghans used to live.” For older Afghans the films would be a reminder of happier times and for the young generation, a glimpse of Afghanistan’s peaceful past that may help raise hope for its future. The Taliban, who banned popular ...