Afghan’s President Ashraf Ghani address to his nation after he fled to United Arab Emirates: “Dear countrymen I am hopeful that the days of  hopelessness will be faded away soon and Afghanistan will be on the path of freedom, development and prosperity again. My whole attention and struggle is for peaceful Afghanistan, a country without any further bloodshed and this ...

US President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of chaos in Kabul that exposed the limits of US power and plunged him into the worst crisis of his presidency. Breaking his silence on the US pullout after scenes of bedlam dominated television news channels for days, ...

Benjamin Gilmour’s feature film Jirga remedies maladies of guilt with bravery and redemption.   It is fairly cathartic when a war movie takes us far beyond the horror of bullets, bomb and blood into the other sides of the war—emotional incumbrances on the individuals.  With such a characteristic aplomb, Jirga film unveils the depth of the heartache and guilt of an ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the announcement of ceasefire by the Taliban group during the three days of Eid-ul-Fitr. Karzai says he fully supports the decision by the Taliban group leadership to declare a ceasfire and hoped that the step would pave the way for the revival of peace talks. The Taliban group announced on Saturday announced that ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Afghan men and women are participating in an unprecedented protest to push the warring sides in Afghanistan to cease hostilities and conclude peace. Under the banner of the previously unknown People’s Movement, scores of demonstrators took part in the fifth day of a sit-in protest in Lashkar Gah. The dusty city of an estimated ...

The Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khwajah Asif speculates the start of a new cold war between Russia and Moscow as he insists that his country would remain neutral in such an event. Asif made the remarks during a television program hosted by Pakistan’s Geo News recently. “The US has not threatened or put sanctions on any other country as it ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” condemned the recent airstrike on the Dasht-e-Archi district in the northern Kunduz province in which civilians were killed. “The former president calls air raids that target houses, schools and hospitals under the pretext of fight against terrorism as anti Islamic act and against all humanitarian norms,” Karzai’s office said Monday in a statement. He ...

KABUL: Afghanistan’s election authorities have set October 20 as the date for long-delayed legislative and district council elections. Abdul Badi Sayad, chief of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), said on April 1 that the commission was confident the vote could go ahead despite the difficulties in areas controlled by the Taliban. “Afghan security forces have assured us they will carry ...

KABUL: Meshrano Jirga members on Sunday threw their weight behind an ongoing movement for peace in southern Helmand province. A number of youth, including women, have erected tents over the past eight days in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, to demand peace after a suicide attack killed 16 people and injured 55 others. During the sit-ins, a number of protesters went on hunger strike ...

LASHKARGAH: Six hunger strikers have been hospitalized in the capital of southern Helmand province after their condition deteriorated, sources said on Saturday. A number of people have been on hunger strike since Thursday demanding both sides of the warring parties to the Afghanistan conflict to enter a ceasefire. The rare strike began after dozens of people were killed and wounded in a ...