In a meeting with Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday, former and current government officials urged the leaders to implement the agreement as foundation of the National Unity Government (NUG). President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah signed a political deal in 2014 to establish the NUG. According to the deal, the government had to meet two basic conditions: convening constitutional Loya ...

Around 173,000 people killed and more than 183,000 seriously wounded since the US invasion in 2001, revealed the research Costs of War. According to the research paper which focuses on the wars’ deaths and injuries, the cost in human lives and health has been enormous in the two countries. A research report of the Watson Institute for International and Public ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban militants have released the crew of a Pakistani helicopter which crash-landed in central Logar province of Afghanistan earlier this month. The Pakistani intelligence officials have confirmed to Radio Free Europe that the crew members were handed over to the authorities in Kurram Agency on Friday. The officials have further added that seven people were taken hostage by ...

AFGHANISTAN: Members of Khudai Khidmatgar and Loy Afghanistan Movement observed Babra Massacre of Pashtuns today on 12 August in memory of 673 Khudai Khidmatgars killed by Pakistani forces on 12 August, 1948. The commemoration was held in Khas Kunar district of Kunar province where elders condemned the atrocities of the British and Pakistani forces on Pashtuns in general and especially the ...

KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah, reacting to Pakistan’s accusations on Thursday, said the recent attack in Quetta City was a result of the country’s own policies. Abdullah was addressing the second death anniversary of Hashmat Khalil Karzai, brother of former president Hamid Karzai, in Kabul. The CEO strongly reacted to Pakistan’s military authorities over accusing Afghanistan and India ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday conferred Shaheed-i-Millat title on late Hashmat Khalil Khalil Karzai, former member of Kandahar provincial council and cousin of former president Hamid Karzai during an official ceremony held in his honour at the Presidential Palace here. The title was conferred on Hashmat Karzai on the occasion of his second death anniversary which was officially commemorated ...

The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has welcomed India’s support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), specifically with the last year’s delivery of Mi-25 gunship helicopters. Gen. Nicholson is on an official visit to India and has met with several senior Indian officials, including national security adviser Ajit Doval, according to local media reports. ...

KABUL: The Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) has claimed the Afghan government had assured them that the peace deal would be finalised this time. A statement issued by the HIA’s political wing said peace talks with the Afghan government had been finalised, the draft agreement was also final and ready for signature but it had to be delayed for some ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Envoy and Ambassador to Pakistan Dr. Omar Zakhelwal on Saturday said the repatriation of Afghan refugees had political, economic and security advantages for Afghanistan. During an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, he said tension between Kabul and Islamabad could not be reduced until the later brought changes to its policy toward the war-devastated country.. He claimed ...

KABUL: At least five policemen lost their lives in an explosion in the outskirts of Kabul province late on Friday, local officials in Logar province said Saturday. Provincial governor’s spokesman Salim Saleh said a commander of the Public Order Police Forces lost his life along with 4 policemen in Khak Jabar district. He said Gen. Abdul Satar Hashemi was killed ...