KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said Afghanistan remained their largest operation and the alliance was committed to assisting Afghan forces to secure their country. Speaking at a press conference ahead of the alliance summit in Warsaw, Stoltenberg said they would support the Afghan forces to ensure Afghanistan never again became a safe haven for international terrorism. “We will ...

KABUL: Afghan government will call on Warsaw summit to bring pressure on Pakistan to take right decision in anti-terror war in the country. The upcoming NATO summit is to be held in early July in Warsaw. “It will be impossible not to point at Pakistan’s role when you talk about the war in Afghanistan or the region,” said Hanif Atmar, ...

KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has asked his fighters to abandon insurgency against the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). Hekmatyar’s instructions to renounce violence is yet another gesture by the group to join peace process which comes days after he declared the peace talks with the Afghan government is effectively dead. He has conveyed the message ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani traveled to Saudi Arabiaat on the head of a high-level delegation and performed Umrah, his office said on Saturday. Ghani and his delegation landed late on Friday in Jeddah, from where they went to Makkah and offered the Islamic ritual at Masjid Al Haram, a statement from Presidential Palace. They offered prayers at the holy ...

PESHAWAR: The Afghan ambassador to Pakistan has apprised the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister of the problems being faced by refugees in the northwestern province. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal said he himself wanted all Afghan refugees to return to their homeland with honouras soon as possible. But insecurity in Afghanistan forced them to come back to Pakistan, he said. At a meeting ...

KABUL: Leading astrologer Abdullah  Kandahari on Thursday hinted the Eidul Fitr festival would be celebrated on Wednesday (July 6). He told media the Ramadan moon could still be visible on Monday for 20 minutes in Morocco and for eight minutes in Saudi Arabia. Kandahari said the moon might be visible in European countries, the United States and other parts of the ...

KABUL: Twins explosions rocked capital Kabul this afternoon with the preliminary reports suggesting scores of police cadets have lost their lives in the attack. An official in the Ministry of Interior has said at least 27 people were killed and 40 others were wounded in the back to back explosions in the vicinity of Company area. A security official confirmed that a ...

KABUL: At least 4,000 more visas have been granted to the Afghans who have supported the US-led coalition in Afghanistan in a bid to help relocate those who are in fear of persecution. The decision to grant more visas to the Afghans was taken by a Senate panel, Appropriations Committee on Wednesday with the members of the panel unanimously voting ...

KABUL: The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has condemned a terrorist attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport that left scores of people dead and dozens of others wounded. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said “President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani was deeply saddened by the terrorist attack at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey ...

KABUL: The leader of Hezb-e-Islami party Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has said peace deal between his group and the Afghan government is effectively dead days after issuing impossible-to-meet demands. In an article published in Daily Shahadat magazine belonging to the group, Hekmatyar has said the Afghan government must be dissolved, claiming that the majority does not accept it. Earlier, an official of ...