An Afghan parliamentarian who has been accused of sexually assaulting a female dancer in Peshawar city of Pakistan said on Sunday that his enemies are spreading propaganda against him. While talking to a press conference in Kabul, Haji Shir Ali Ahmadzai said that certain people are trying to damage his image. Ahmadzai, who represents Kuchis at the Wolesi Jirga or ...

KABUL: The ARG Presidential Palace has issued a statement warning the users of social media not to forge the decrees issued by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. According to the statement issued by the Office of the President, some social media users are misusing the modern technologies to forge the text of the decrees issued by the Presidential Palace and use ...

KABUL: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has supported early peace parleys between the Afghan government and the Taliban to the end the 15-year-old conflict in the landlocked country. “We support negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, as the situation in the region depends on their results,” Steinmeier told a joint conference with his Kyrgyz counterpart Erlan Abdydalyev in ...

Tadamichi Yamamoto, the newly appointed head of the UN mission in Afghanistan vows to work for peace between Afghan government and Taliban. Yamamoto who has not yet assumed charges said Afghanistan’s security worsened after the withdrawal of most of the international troops in 2014. He added that it is important for Afghan forces to overcome the challenges with the support ...

By: Emran Feroz Afghanistan is the country most bombed by drones in the world. Nevertheless, it seems that the world is silent on its devastation. The vehicles were completely destroyed. So, too, was the body of one of the passengers, four-year-old Amir. In April 2013, a U.S. drone strike killed the child in Kunar, one of Afghanistan’s eastern provinces, together with 13 other ...

AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan prisoner has been impressed by Hillary Clinton’s hopes-giving speeches and statements during her presidential campaign. Shir Hussain Hoaida, a 34-year-old man who has been serving third year of his six-year sentence in central Afghanistan told Voice of America (VOA) that the Democratic presidential front-runner’s plea for friendship and brotherhood between Christians and Muslims moved him to make ...

The former Afghan interior minister Mohammad Omar Daudzai has said Pakistan is against peace and stability in Afghanistan, insisting that the Afghan government should not expect the country to help in bring peace in Afghanistan. In his speech during a ceremony to mark the death anniversary of a senior police official Hekmatullah Haqmal, Daudzai said Pakistan was never in favor ...

AFGHANISTAN: The former Afghan defense minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi slammed the Taliban group for assassinating the Afghan security officials on the orders of Pakistan’s military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). He was speaking during a gathering to commemorate the first death anniversary of Hekmatullah Haqmal who was assassinated in Helmand province a year ago. Mohammadi hailed the Afghan security forces ...

KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday met with Chief of the Feroz Koh Foundation (Turquoise Mountain). Head of the Feroz Koh Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture, Waheed Khalili and teachers of the institute were also present on the occasion. Hamid Karzai commended the institute for creating exquisite pieces of arts. He also thanked Britain’s Prince Charles for establishment ...

Afghanistan has opposed deportation of Afghan asylum seekers and refugees in large number from Europe. “For now the Afghan Government is opposite [sic] for the forcible deportation because the situation is not good in Afghanistan,” said Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel, media advisor to the ministry. “Most of the Afghans leave the country because of the insecurity, some districts are under the ...