KABUL: The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Afghanistan today, more than a month after a deadly explosion took place close to the embassy of Germany in Kabul. According to the local media reports, Steinmeier headed to Kabul after visiting the German troops stationed in North of Afghanistan. The German leader is expected to hold talks with the Afghan officials, ...

KABUL: The US President Donald Trump has intervened to grant visas for the Afghan female students who were rejected for two times to participate in the international robotics competition. Senior US officials have told the US-based, The Politico, that U.S. officials have reversed course at the urging of President Trump and decided to allow into the United States a group ...

LAHORE: A man shot his sister and her 15-year-old daughter dead for honour in Badami Bagh on Tuesday. Police said Shahzad alias Mocha along with his two unidentified accomplices went to the house of his sister Bushra, 35, in Sadaat Colony. The suspects allegedly tortured the woman and her daughter Noor Fiza and shot them dead. The suspects riding a ...

KABUL: The violations along the Durand Line was on the agenda of the high level defense meeting chaired by President Mohamamd Ashraf Ghani where other issues related the security were discussed. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the meeting of the commander in chief of the armed forces chaired by President Ghani focused on the security situation of ...

KABUL: The 50-overs match between Afghanistan and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has ended in a draw due to rain at Lord’s in London on Tuesday. MCC won the toss and elected to bat first in the encounter, which had to be reduced to 40 overs. The hosts set to the Afghans a target of 217 for the loss of six wickets. ...

Man is quite eccentric creature of the planet: he surpasses other creatures in intelligence and articulation and in physique and beauty; in power and strength he has tamed the monsters and the rocks to move; in patience and forbearance he has surmounted Mount Everest and discovered the unknown planets; he has even subdued the winds and the waters; yet in ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said the regional and international opportunities favor Afghanistan, it’s time for Pakistan to choose an opportunity or it’s opposite. Stable Afghanistan is in the interest of Islamabad and in the region as well. Addressing a press conference here at Presidential Palace, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, said: “There was a time when Pakistan was considering ...

KABUL: A female Afghan pilot who is on the historic course of the solo round-the-world flight, has arrived in Kabul on Monday and received an overwhelming welcome by the people and the government officials. President Ghani met the pilot, Shaesta Waiz in his office on Monday evening and hailed her for the round-the-world tour. He also expressed hopes that all ...

KABUL: Afghanistan under-15 football team on Monday returned home with championship from Central Asia Zone. They warmly welcomed by Afghan people and football federation in Kabul. “Fortunately the Afghanistan under 15 football team has beaten Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kirghizstan in five-nation football tournament or Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) played in Tajikistan,” Said Football Federation Spokesman Sayed Ali Kazemi. He said ...

Islamabad has shown no sign if it is genuinely willing to end support for proxies like the Haqqani network. With the Trump administration considering how to break the stalemate between Taliban-allied groups and the government of Afghanistan, terrorists detonated a car bomb in Kabul on May 31, killing more than 150. Afghan intelligence blamed the violence on Haqqani, a terror ...