KABUL: Several members of the Harakat-e-Inqelab-e-Islami (Movement of Islamic Revolution), a former jihadi party, met the former president Hamid Karzai, and commended him for his 13 years long services as the president of the country, the ex-president’s office said on Saturday. “They offered Karzai a letter of appreciation for his services,” it added. The members of the former jihadi party ...

KABUL: The number of terrorist attacks is on the rise in Afghanistan, and security situation in Afghanistan remained a challenging, Russian officials said. “We urge the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and to take urgent action to launch intra-Afghan dialogue,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told newsmen in Moscow. Hinting ...

KABUL: Scores of protesters gathered outside the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on Friday to demonstrate against Pakistan’s alleged support for insurgents. The demonstrators also raised slogans against Pakistan Army’s intelligence arm, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Afghan media reported. A number of Afghanistan Green Trend (AGT) members held a demonstration outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul in protest over Islamabad’s perceived role ...

The US Embassy in Kabul has issued a security alert to citizens in capital Kabul following a series of deadly attacks in the main cities of the country, including capital Kabul that left scores of people dead or wounded. “The U.S. Embassy in Kabul reminds U.S. citizens that serious threats to safety and security exist in the city of Kabul and ...

KABUL: A report, released by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), underlined inflexibility in stance of the warring parties difficult conditions for dialogue and lack of will as main obstacles in the Afghan peace process. The report titled “Peace negotiation assessment in Afghanistan in the past four decades” is a grounded methodology report drafted after interviewing different politicians and ...

More than 9,400 undocumented Afghans have returned home from Iran and Pakistan in the first week of 2017, raising concerns over how the war-torn Asian nation will cope with the rising influx, the United Nations said Wednesday. The vast majority were young men crossing the border from Iran. Although repatriation is not compulsory, the Pakistani government has stepped up pressure ...

KABUL: The Taliban militants group has released the video of an American and an Australian professor who were kidnapped by the group last year. The 13-minute video purportedly shows the making desperate pleas for their lives. The hostages have been identified as Timothy Weekes, an English teacher from Sydney, and Kevin King, a professor from the United States. The video ...

KABUL: The provincial governor of southern Kandahar province Humayoun Azizi will be sent to Germany for further treatment of the injuries he sustained in the attack on Tuesday. Local government officials said Azizi is currently receiving treatment in foreign forces hospital in Kandahar. Provincial governor’s spokesman Samim Khpolwak said the governor has received injuries in his hand some parts of ...

KABUL: The provincial police chief of the southern Kandahar province General Abdul Raziq has said notorious Haqqani terrorist network with the support of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) were behind the deadly attack on governor’s compound. Speaking during a press conference, Gen. Raziq said the Haqqani network and ISI were working since a long period of time to target the ...

KABUL: At least nine people were killed in an explosion in the governor’s compound in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Tuesday during a visit by the UAE ambassador, local media reported. The UAE’s Foreign Ministry made the statement Tuesday night, describing the attack as “heinous.” It identified the wounded ambassador as Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi. Afghanistan’s Tolo News said the ...