KABUL: Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani says that Pakistan’s efforts in Afghan peace process are crucial and trust building. He expressed these comments while opening the 4th round of Quadrilateral Committee Group meeting in Kabul on Tuesday. Rabbani said peace in Afghanistan is hope of Afghan nation and no one would be allowed to fail the reconciliation process. He ...

KABUL: Renowned spiritual leader Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani has been appointed as new Afghan High Peace Council  chairman, a well-placed source said on Sunday. Salahuddin Rabbani resigned the slot after his appointment as foreign minister. The key post had been vacant for nearly a year, irking major international donors. An official privy to discussions on the appointmnts told Pajhwok Afghan News ex-vice ...

An Afghan photo journalist has drowned off Turkish coast along with his family members as they tried to reach Europe, putting the number of journalists to 9 died since the start of the year. An organization supporting open media in Afghanistan, NAI, reported that the photo journalist, Feroz Muzafari’s boat capsized as he was on his way to Europe. Calling ...

PESHAWAR : Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed on a pilot run of Afghan trucks from Torkham and Chaman border crossings to Wagah — a longstanding demand of Kabul to boost trade with India. The decision came at the 6th meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Coordination Authority (APTTCA) in Islamabad on Wednesday, a senior official told Pajhwok Afghan News. Deputy Minister of Ministry of ...

KABUL – Pajhwok Afghan News has learned that as many as 108 Afghan journalists and media workers had left Afghanistan to seek asylum in foreign countries during the past one year. These individuals mainly worked in information technology and translation sections at different media outlets in Afghanistan before leaving the country. Since early 2015, five workers of Shamshad TV, 21 ...

AFGHANISTAN: Deadly clashes have been erupting between two rival groups of Taliban in central Ghazni province of Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The provincial governor said that one group belongs to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour and the other one to Mullah Mohammad Rasoul. According to Mohammad Aman Hamim, the clashes which started in the jurisdiction of Nawa District earlier this morning ...

KABUL – Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullahon Monday asked the Taliban to stop using children as soldiers in the ongoing conflict in the country. The national unity government was pursuing a zero-tolerance policy on child soldiers, he told a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan. While asking the insurgent movement to join the ...

AFGHANISTAN: A patriot Afghan national who lives in a foreign country but still holds love for his country has spent $125,000 of his ‘hardly-earned’ money to build a library and conference hall for students of Medical Faculty in Nangarhar University. Professor Sharifullah while inaugurating the two-storey building, being constructed with his funds, urged students to concentrate on their studies. He ...

KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan over the abduction of Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi in Islamabad. “Mindful of this that Mr. Wahidi is a prominent personality of Afghanistan and this incident took place in a peaceful area and capital of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan asks the Islamic Republic ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said he had warned the world regarding the threat posed by Daesh, a an extremist group that had been defeated in Afghanistan. Addressing participants the 52nd Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Afghan leaders accused the world of paying no attention to his warnings regarding the Islamic Sate (IS). He said many of Afghanistan’s ...