KABUL: The sources in the Afghan government have confirmed that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has turned down a request by the Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to hold talks over the phone. Sources further added that the Prime Minister of Pakistan wanted to hold with President Ghani apparently to discuss the recent deadly attacks. However, they said the request ...

ISLAMABAD: Top Afghan security officials have arrived in Islamabad the capital of Pakistan after a series of deadly attacks in Kabul and other parts of the country left scores of people dead. The two senior security officials, including the intelligence chief Masoom Stanikzai and minister of interior Wais Ahmad Barmak are expected to hold talks with the Pakistani officials. The ...

“My Life With The Taliban” A Book Review by Zahid Khattak Abdus Salam Zaeef, a former Taliban envoy to Pakistan, offers a unique contribution to the literature written on the conflict in Afghanistan along with his autobiography. He presents an un-apologetic Taliban attitude on the events in Afghanistan and as such give his perspective on different issues. For instance, his ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has urged Afghanistan’s international friends to adopt a united front against countries supporting and equipping terrorists. In a joint press conference with visiting Indonesian counterparty Joko Widodo, Ghani lambasted the Taliban for claiming barbaric incidents of violence in the country and asked the global community to put pressure on supporters of terrorism for ending the decades old conflict in ...

KABUL: The death toll from a suicide bombing carried out through an ambulance has risen to 95, with 151 others wounded near the Jamuriat Hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said. Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majrooh told the media the toll might still rise because many of the wounded were said to be in critical condition. Baryali Helali, head of Afghanistan Government Media and Information ...

KABUL:  The war affected families from Waziristan organized a big rally in Khost province against the ongoing Pashtun genocide in Pakistan, human rights violations in FATA and the extra judicial killing of Naqib Mahsood in a fake police encounter in Karachi. A large number of Pashtuns from Waziristan participated in the rally and demanded justice for Pashtuns in Pakistan and ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has said he would not be against the United States, but “what the US government is doing in Afghanistan, is unacceptable”. “The presence of the foreign troops has caused the increase of corruption and drug production in Afghanistan,” Karzai addressed a gathering in a literature festival held Friday in India’s city of Jaipur. He pointed ...

National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday announced that initial investigations show that the explosives used by Taliban insurgents in the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul on Saturday came from Pakistan.  The NDS also recovered the vehicle that attackers  used to enter the hotel compound. “The explosive materials seized in the vehicle shows that the material is made ...

KABUL: The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), released its initial findings regarding the deadly attack on Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul city. The NDS in a statement said the intelligence operatives have confiscated explosives from a vehicle from the vicinity of the hotel. The statement further added that the explosives seized from the vehicle carries sign of Biafos Company ...

PESHAWAR: Karachi-based Afghanistan Consul General Dr. Abdullah Waheed Poyan was among five people killed in the latest terrorist attack at Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul. Afghan Special Forces ended an overnight siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday, killing the last gunman from a group of three attackers who stormed the hotel, taking hostages and battling security forces for hours. Two ...