ISLAMABAD: India on Wednesday praised the role of Afghan forces and people in fighting against the scourge of terrorism and for the country’s economic development. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj believed that landlocked Afghanistan, wrecked by more than three decades of conflict,could achieve progress only through economic development. Addressing the Heart of Asia Conference in Islamabad, she called for all regional powers to ...

AFGHANISTAN: At least 37 civilians have been killed and 35 others were wounded in a group attack of the Taliban on residential apartments near Kandahar International Airport, said officials. The attack began late yesterday afternoon when a group of 10 to 14 suicide bombers entered to a township near Kandahar airport and started fighting against Afghan security forces. All 14 ...

KABUL – President Ashraf Ghani on Monday confirmed he will be attending the heart of Asia-Istanbul Process conference in Islamabad on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Ghani said the summit is an Afghan conference, not a Pakistan conference. He said Pakistan has been in an undeclared war with Afghanistan for 14 years now and that peace needs to ...

The Afghan government is once again attempting to improve relations with Pakistan and, with Pakistan’s help, revive the stalled peace efforts to bring the Taliban on negotiation table and end the bloody conflict in the country. According to reports, President Ashraf Ghani has met Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate change summit to discuss ...

Local media reported Saturday about treatment of Mullah Mansoor in a Karachi hospital, the port city of Pakistan. Though the reports could not be confirmed independently but had sent a wave of suspicion over motives of Pakistan. The so-called Taliban’s commander-in-chief Mullah Muhammad Akhtar Mansoor has been in the headlines after the death reports of Mullah Omar, because his appointment ...

QUETTA PAKISTAN: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been wounded in Pakistan in a shootout between senior members of the outlawed movement, Taliban sources said on Wednesday, while the group’s main spokesman denied it. Mansour, whose authority is disputed by rival factions, was wounded when fighting broke out over strategic issues in the house of senior leader called Mullah Abdullah ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday said Taliban and Daesh fighters are being trained in Pakistan and then sent to Afghanistan to fight security forces. Interior Minister Noorulhaq Olomi said insurgents are recruiting the youth and are continuing their attacks on Afghanistan while giving orders from Pakistan. Speaking at an event on Tuesday which saw security forces destroy 19,000 ...

Efforts related to talks between the Afghan government and Taliban with the help of Pakistan have been observed recently again after news of the death of Mulla Umar in July had delayed its second round. In the last few months Pakistan has been trying to bring the Afghan government to talks but Kabul instead wants that Pakistan should rather take ...

Germany is to maintain its military presence in northern Afghanistan in 2016 in cooperation with its NATO partners, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday. “We have agreed – and this is very good news – that we are going to go ahead with our contribution in the mission of strengthening the security architecture in Afghanistan. That ...

AFGHANISTAN: Up to 12 Daesh (ISIS) militants were killed in a clash with security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said. The district chief of Achin, Haji Ghalib, said that the insurgents attacked security check post in Abdul Khel area. In retaliation, security forces killed a dozen Daesh militants and wounded several others. He said the clash lasted for several ...