KABUL: Kabul on Tuesday welcomed BRICS powers for condemning terrorist attacks and calling for an immediate end to the violence in Afghanistan, but Islamabad rejected the grouping’s claim that militant groups in Pakistan posed a regional security concern. The Afghan government hoped for a collective action against terrorism following the BRICS leaders meeting in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen and welcomed the ...

KABUL: President Mohamamd Ashraf Ghani on Friday said attacks on religious places was attack on Afghanistan and carried out by miscreants. Addressing reporters after the Eid-ul-Adha prayer at the mosque of Presidential Palace the president said he was proud of Afghanistan for having national unity and religious harmony. The president congratulated Eid-ul-Adha to the entire nation special to security forces of the country. “I ...

KABUL: Officials in Islamabad are concerned regarding the possible blocking of the transit route to Central Asia and Europe by the Afghan government, it has been reported. The concerns have been shared by the authorities in Islamabad amid deteriorating diplomatic ties between the two neighbors. Sources within the Pakistani government have said the step could be taken due to the ...

ARG/KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday chaired a high level meeting in ARG Palace amid persistent tense situation along the Durand Line. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the meeting was also attended by the special representative of the UN secretary general to Afghanistan. The statement further added that President Ghani that relentless shelling ...

KABUL: A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed to create transparency in the Afghan security forces funding provided by the United States, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday, Eklil Hakimi, minister of finance and Robin L. Fontes, US Army major general, signed the MoU requiring the combined security transition command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to assist Kabul in strengthening the Afghan forces. ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani through a decree has exempted media outlets, except TV channels, from paying tax fines, an official said on Tuesday. The presidential order was read out by Abdul Subhan Rauf, deputy head of the Administrative Office of the President (AOP), on Tuesday during the president’s meeting with representatives of print, audio, broadcasting agencies and media outlets. He ...

KABUL: Pakistan’s army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said Pakistan cannot bring the Afghan war into Pakistan, apparently gesturing towards Kabul and Washington’s demands to eliminate the safe havens of Taliban and Haqqani network based in the country. Gen. Bajwa made the remarks during a meeting with the Afghan army chief of staff General Sharif Yaftali. “COAS ...

KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmyat has urged the regional countries, specifically the neighboring Pakistan to refrain from efforts aimed at turning Afghanistan into its regional rivalry hub. During a meeting with the Sikh and Hindu Afghan nationals, Hekmatyar said “We want peace in Afghanistan and the region and the neighboring countries should help Afghanistan in bring peace and ...

KABUL: Despite other issues, the new US strategy also did not focused on fundamental financial resources of the insurgents. It is a matter of concern that new US policy on Afghanistan remained silent over the danger posed by illicit drug cultivation and trafficking. Efforts have to be accelerated in eradication of drug cultivation, as the Taliban insurgents, a terrorist group ...

KABUL: At least five people were killed and nine others wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday morning in front of a Kabul Bank branch in Kabul city, police and health officials said. “A suicide attacker detonated his explosives in front of Kabul Bank branch in police district 9 near the US embassy at around 10:00am,” said Kabul ...