KABUL: Kabul has reacted towards the visit by a delegation of Taliban group leaders to Pakistan shortly after the group announced the delegation will hold talks on refugees and border issues with the Pakistani authorities. A statement by ARG Palace said the visit by Taliban delegation from Qatar to Pakistan is totally vague since the terror groups are not allowed ...

The Afghan and Russian defense officials have agreed to establish a military-technical cooperation committee in a bid to jointly combat international terrorism. According to reports, the agreement was reached during a meeting between the acting Afghan defense minister Masoom Stanikzai and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu. “A number of specific steps and issues have been discussed, such as further training ...

Two key Taliban group militants were arrested as they were escaping from Dahana-e-Ghori district in northern Baghlan province, disguised as married couple. According to the local security officials, the two Taliban militants were identified as Mawlavi Jumadin and Qari Juma Khan. Provincial security chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Nazari confirmed that the two militants were involved in insurgency activities and were ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the US-led war on terror failed because the extremists’ sanctuaries remained intact in Pakistan. During an interview with the Russia Today television network, Karzai said Washington should focus on cutting down extremists’ financial sources and training grounds if the country remains sincerely determined to fight terror in all its forms, and its ...

The Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) over heavy artillery shelling by Pakistan in eastern Nangarhar province. According to a statement by MoFA, a formal protest was lodged regarding the shelling by handing over an official Memo of the Afghan government to the Pakistani Ambassador. The statement further ...

An Afghan Taliban delegation based in Qatar is in Karachi for direct talks with the Afghan government, BBC Urdu reported, citing diplomatic sources in Islamabad. The Foreign Office has denied knowledge of the delegation’s visit. Following a deadly insurgent attack targeting a security services office in the heart of Kabul ─ one of the deadliest attacks in the Afghan capital ...

The United States has reportedly denied to issue a visa to the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum to visit New York and Washington to discuss the situation of the country with the American officials, it has been reported. The step was reportedly taken for Gen. Dostum’s alleged involvement in the mass killing of the Taliban insurgents in late ...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Monday that the government of Afghanistan is not expecting Pakistan to bring Taliban group to negotiations table, urging Islamabad to take actions against the militant groups acting Afghanistan using the Pakistani soil. He was speaking during a gathering in Afghan Parliament following a deadly attack in Kabul last week which left over 400 people dead ...

WASHINGTON: The biggest failure of the United States in Afghanistan is its inability to persuade Afgha­n­­­­istan and Pakistan to cooperate, says the former US ambassador to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad. In an interview to Voice of America, broadcast this weekend, Mr Khalilzad described the Pak-Afghan tension as “the mother of all problems” in the Pak-Afghan region. “The two countries need each ...

JALALABAD: At least 31 Nangarhar University students accused of insulting the national flag have been awarded jail terms, an official said on Sunday. Some months back, hundreds of Nangarhar University students staged a protest in support of militants and insulted Afghanistan’s national flag. After the protest, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested dozens of students and referred them to ...