KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and US President Donald Trump discussed issues of mutual interest during a phone conversation earlier tonight. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the two leaders discussed counter-terrorism and other issues, including Afghanistan and regional security as well economy. “President Ashraf Ghani and President Donald Trump discussed counter terrorism, Afghanistan and regional security, economy ...

KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the former president, “strongly” condemned Tuesday’s suicide attack in Kabul, calling it against all human and Islamic principle carried out by the enemies of Afghanistan. A man on foot detonated his explosives at the car park of the Supreme Court in a rush hour when the officials were leaving. More than 20 people all reportedly civilians were ...

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan has warned that his party will stage a sit-in in Islamabad if Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) is not merged with Khyber Pakht­unkhwa province before March 12. Speaking at a public gathering here on Tuesday, he demanded that the federal government announce a decision on the merger of Fata with KP ...

Saudi police arrested an apparently “mentally disturbed” man who tried to set himself on fire at Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. The man, in his 40s and a Saudi citizen, “poured petrol on himself and tried to set it alight,” Grand Mosque police spokesman Major Sameh al-Salami said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YECyoS7E0s “His behaviour ...

Ajmal Khattak, the veteran Pashtun politician, poet, writer and former president of Awami National Party, died in penury on 7 February 2010, after six decades of unremitting political struggle in Pakistan for the political and economic autonomy of the Pashtun people, sliced off by the British-Indian Empire in 1893 from Afghanistan.  Ajmal Khattak was politically active during his student life. ...

WASHINGTON: Urging the Trump Administration to remain open to restart talks with the Taliban, a group of eminent South Asian experts from top US think tanks Monday urged the White House to take tough measures against Pakistan and send a strong signal to Islamabad that it will not be business as usual. “Washington should remain open to attempts to restart ...

New Delhi. With regional powers forging new links and trying to outdo each other in what is being seen as a new ‘Great Game’, Afghanistan Ambassador to India Dr Shaida Mohammad Abdali said that the peace in Afghanistan is crucial for regional stability. Dr Abdali was delivering a talk on ‘Afghanistan at the Crossroads: Implications for Regional Security’ at the ...

KABUL: At least 20 people were killed and 41 wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the Supreme Court’s car park on Tuesday, officials said. The target was employees of the Supreme Court, and the number of casualties is feared to rise. “20 people including three women and one child were killed in the today’s suicide attack,” Wahidullah ...

KABUL: Scores of people have been killed and received injures due to heavy snow and avalanches that hit almost all parts of the country, officials said on Monday. ‏State Minister for Disaster Management, Wais Barmak said that 119 people killed and 89 others were wounded due to heavy snowfalls and avalanches in 22 provinces across the country in the past ...

CHENNAI: A former video cassette seller with close ties to Tamil Nadu’s late leader will become the next chief minister of the Indian state, capping a remarkable rise for the political novice. The ruling party in the southern state announced on Sunday that VK Sasikala would become the next leader following the resignation of the acting chief minister. Her rise ...