President Ashraf Ghani opened the 4th G7+ ministerial conference in Kabul on Wednesday. The group which is built up by countries having recent experience of conflict will discuss peace and reconciliation efforts pursued in member countries, economic resilience, New Deal implementation and localizing the SDGs. Tight security measures have been taken for the two-day forum in Kabul. During his inaugural ...

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KABUL – President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday vowed to boost education and literacy rate in Afghanistan. “The government is determined to utilize all ways and means to boot education, improve education system and increase the rate of literacy in Afghanistan,” said President Ghani in his address to inaugurate new educational year. Both the government entities and citizens should work ...

BRUSSELS – The latest attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station mark another low by terrorists, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, following the explosions which caused at least 13 death in the morning. “I am appalled by the bombings this morning at Zavantem airport and the European district in Brussels which have cost several innocent lives ...

KABUL – The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologised on Tuesday for the American bombing of a hospital last year that killed 42 people and wounded 37 more. General John W. Nicholson met family members of victims and the staff of the now-closed Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, which was captured by Taliban insurgents for ...

KABUL: Criticizing the American authorities for not responding to the cross-Durand Line aggression, the former president Hamid Karzai said that the United States must implement the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) in letter and spirit. In his message on Nawroz, the ex-president said that violation of Afghan soil should be responded by the US government as it was duty of Washington to ...

Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, according to public broadcaster VRT, triggering security alerts across Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels ...

PESHAWAR: A dissident Taliban leader, who refused pledging allegiance to the movement’s new head, has been detained by Pakistani security personnel. Mullah Muhammad Rasool was chosen as head of the breakaway faction in early November by the Taliban opposed to Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s appointment as the group’s supremo. Rasool was arrested after he had fled recent infighting in southern Zabul ...

Transgender community to protested against police transphobia following claims S.H.O. Ghazi attacked a transgender function, looted Rs. 1500,000 and sexually harassed two transgender A newly formed  provincial alliance of transgender called TransAction hold a peaceful protest against police trans-phobia, outside Peshawar Press Club and organized a media briefing. President of the TransAction Alliance  Farzana told media that S.H.O. Ghazi named ...

BY WAKEEL KHAN | “Nowruz” is actually a Bronze Age, pre-Zoroastrian, proto-Iranian festival. In the beginning of the Iron Age, owing to a huge socio-economic change with the onset of Iron technology, Zoroastrianism emerged during 9th-7th centuries B.C. in East Iranian pastoral tribes, living along the rivers of Hilmand and Hari Rud (Tedzhen). Zoroastrianism was only a philosophical advancement on the ...