KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the former president called on the Islamic Republic of Iran to help the Afghan-led peace process along other regional countries. In a meeting with Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Karzai on Sunday welcomed Zarif to Kabul, asking the Islamic Republic to cooperate with Afghanistan in certain fields as it was doing in the past, according to ...

KANDAHAR: Abdul Ghafoor Feroz, a media advisor and Islamic scholar in the governor’s house of southern Kandahar province was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday, an official said. Feroz came under attack while heading to his office in the capital of Kandahar province this morning. Zubair, brother of Feroz, told media that his brother was shot dead near his ...

Provincial council member states the Kunduz district has fallen to the Taliban following two days of heavy clashes. Sayed Asad Sadat, a Kunduz provincial council member said Qala-e-Zal district collapsed on Saturday morning to the Taliban after two days of heavy clashes between the insurgent group and security forces. He said however that as yet there are no reports of ...

KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Pakistan’s charge d’ affaires over Pakistani troops’ entry into Afghan territory that resulted in conflict with Afghan forces at Spin Boldak area. The ministry said in a statement that Pakistan’s attack on Afghan forces is a clear violation of regulations which compels us to share the Afghan government’s concern over the incident with ...

KABUL: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has said the upcoming meeting of NATO leaders, including US President Donald Trump, will discuss issues like Afghanistan. “It will be a very short meeting but it will be an important meeting because it will be the first visit of the new US President to NATO and to meet allies,” Stoltenberg told a joint ...

KANDAHAR CITY: A fierce clash that broke out early on Friday morning between Afghan and Pakistani border guards along the Durand Line was still ongoing, officials said. The clash continued between the two sides in Luqman village that falls in the zero point area of the border between the two countries, Kandahar police official Ghorzang Afridi told media. He said ...

KABUL: Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar on Thursday stressed the need for national unity in prevention of foreign interferences in Afghanistan and asked the Taliban to reconcile with the government. Hekmatyar, who arrived in Kabul in a large convoy of vehicles, told a ceremony welcoming him at the Presidential Palace, that his party, the HIA, believed in freedom of expression ...

ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has declined invitations extended by top civil and military officials to visit Pakistan, BBC Urdu reported on Wednesday. Quoting the president’s Deputy Spokesman Dawa Khan Minapal, BBC Urdu reported that Ghani, who met with Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Naveed Mukhtar and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq over the past week, had rejected their invitations, ...

KABUL: On the head of a long convoy, Amir of the Hezb-I-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) with his supporter on Thursday arrived in capital Kabul after decades in hiding.  Earlier, Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for Nangarhar governor, told media that Hekmatyar left Jalalabad for Kabul early in the morning and traveled by road. A large number of People standing both sides of Kabul-Jalalabad ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has categorically told the Pakistan’s spymaster that Afghanistan would not trust the neighbour until it takes action against the Taliban and other terrorist groups. A well-placed government source confided to local Afghan news Afghanistan handed ISI chief, Naveed Mukhtar, enough evidence of the presence of Taliban and other rebel insurgents in Pakistan. During his day-long visit ...