KABUL: The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) on Sunday announced the result of university entry tests, declaring some 157,000 participants as successful. MoHE spokesman Faisal Amin told Pajhwok Afghan News the results of the tests were published on the ministry’s website www.mohe.gov.af on Sunday afternoon. Of some 180,000 candidates from all over the country sitting in the exams of 1394 ...

The Afghanistan national cricket will receive another hero’s welcome in Jalalabad city the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province today. A major event has been organized to welcome the Afghan team who won the hearts of the Afghan people with their impressive performance in World Twenty20. The event will include speech by high level government officials, folkloric Atan dance, fireworks ...

An Afghan parliamentarian who has been accused of sexually assaulting a female dancer in Peshawar city of Pakistan said on Sunday that his enemies are spreading propaganda against him. While talking to a press conference in Kabul, Haji Shir Ali Ahmadzai said that certain people are trying to damage his image. Ahmadzai, who represents Kuchis at the Wolesi Jirga or ...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has urged India and Pakistan not to continue moving in the wrong direction as they develop their military doctrines. In his concluding remarks at the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit, Mr Obama said that leaders from across the globe had gathered at the two-day event to discuss “one of the greatest threats to global ...

Brazilian man’s hand was saved from amputation by ingenious surgeons who put it inside a ‘pocket’ in his stomach, it has been reported. The man, Carlos Mariotti, lost two fingers, his index and middle fingers, in accident that put him at risk of a full hand amputation but the surgeons decided to bury his left hand inside his abdomen and ...

KABUL: The ARG Presidential Palace has issued a statement warning the users of social media not to forge the decrees issued by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. According to the statement issued by the Office of the President, some social media users are misusing the modern technologies to forge the text of the decrees issued by the Presidential Palace and use ...

The two actors have previously been co-stars in Rab Ne Bana De Jori and Jab Tak Hai Jaan Shah Rukh will plays a turbaned Sikh tourist, while Anushka stars opposite him in a major role in the upcoming comedy Bollywood fans have their eyes on Imtiaz Ali, as he readies to shoot his next. The Tamasha director is helming a ...

KABUL: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has supported early peace parleys between the Afghan government and the Taliban to the end the 15-year-old conflict in the landlocked country. “We support negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, as the situation in the region depends on their results,” Steinmeier told a joint conference with his Kyrgyz counterpart Erlan Abdydalyev in ...

Tadamichi Yamamoto, the newly appointed head of the UN mission in Afghanistan vows to work for peace between Afghan government and Taliban. Yamamoto who has not yet assumed charges said Afghanistan’s security worsened after the withdrawal of most of the international troops in 2014. He added that it is important for Afghan forces to overcome the challenges with the support ...

By: Emran Feroz Afghanistan is the country most bombed by drones in the world. Nevertheless, it seems that the world is silent on its devastation. The vehicles were completely destroyed. So, too, was the body of one of the passengers, four-year-old Amir. In April 2013, a U.S. drone strike killed the child in Kunar, one of Afghanistan’s eastern provinces, together with 13 other ...