The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has reacted to the death of the UAE Ambassador who was injured in an explosion in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani was saddened by the death of Juma Al Kaabi who sustained injuries while during an attack while he was on a humanitarian mission ...

KABUL: The NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance is firmly committed to its Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. The NATO decided to stay in Afghanistan with 13,000 troops to train, assist and advise Afghan security force to defeat terrorism and stabilize the war-torn country. Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance secretary-general, reiterated the commitment during a question-answer session at ...

KABUL: 52 farmers have been kidnapped by Taliban militants in Northern Jawzjan province, said officials Wednesday. “Armed Taliban have Kidnapped 52 famers in Darzab district today,” said Provincial Governor Spokesman Reza Rezai. He said that the farmers went to Chehl Tapa, Chaharband and Chaharsir areas for collecting firewood, when ere abducted by Taliban militant. Taliban took the farmer to Dasht-e-Laili ...

Lahore: A positive vibration may be going through conservative elements of the country as a day after the Islamabad High Court banned Valentine’s Day, a man has been arrested in Lahore for selling sex toys. People in the bustling Chauburji area were ‘bemused’ to see the man waving about his wares in broad daylight. In his own words, Farmanul Haq, 25, ...

German police, in a press release, have refuted reports that a ‘sex mob’ assaulted women in Frankfurt on New Year’s Eve, saying the allegations are “without foundation”. On February 6, Bild, Germany’s most-read newspaper reported that dozens of Arab men – presumed to be refugees – had rampaged through Frankfurt. The paper dubbed them the Fressgass ‘sex mob’. The report ...

After the New York Times published an article regarding the teaming of Muslim, Christian and Jewish Facebook friends to save the life of an Afghan baby born with a terminal heart defect, many people sent requests and appreciation messages to Farhad Zaheer, the instrumental, heroic Afghan who overcame all obstacles and hardships to facilitate this. Through his Facebook contacts with ...

The Afghan government approved three contracts worth 1.5 billion AFN during a meeting which was chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the contracts were approved during the National Procurement Commission (NPC) meeting. The contracts include construction of a road in Zaranj city of western Nimroz province having a length of 10.8 kilometers. ...

KABUL: Among the concerns that the upcoming spring would be a bloody one with serious fighting, president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, on Tuesday warned that the country’s security forces will “defeat” the militants and will “chase them in every valley and mountain” of the country in coming spring. President, while taking to a gathering in the presidential palace in Kabul, organized ...

At least three personnel of the Levies Force and a civilian were killed, and three people were injured in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency’s Ghalanai tehsil on Wednesday, sources in the political administration said. A suicide bomber tried to enter a housing colony of the local political administration. When he was stopped in this attempt by Levies personnel, the ...

India successfully launched 104 satellites in a single mission on Wednesday, setting what its space agency says is a world record of launching the most satellites at one go. Of the 104, 101 are foreign satellites to serve international customers as the South Asian nation seeks a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry. “This is a great ...