KABUL: Thirty-four people have been killed and 58 others wounded in a car bomb outside a bank in the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s office said. Local officials said the bomb was detonated on June 22 outside the New Kabul Bank branch in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, causing casualties among civilians, staff of the New Kabul Bank ...

Jingoism is an extreme and aggressive patriotism. Its a pride in anything that belongs to one’s own state and hatred against anything foreign. This is exactly that is going on between India and Pakistan. Extreme hatred between the two is the result of the lies spread on media. Just one case of irrationality in India and our media will present ...

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Tuesday said Pakistan was ‘the most influential’ external actor affecting Afghan stability and the military alliance’s mission. “Pakistan views the outcome of Afghanistan to be in its vital national interest and thus remains driven by its India-centric regional policy objectives,” the Pentagon said in its six monthly report to the Congress. It said the Afghan-oriented militant groups, including the ...

The people and the governments of Afghanistan had never accepted the Durand Line as an international border since it was drawn in 1893: Afghanistan KABUL: The Afghan government on Wednesday said it would not allow Pakistan to fence the Durand Line and would hold talks on the issue soon with Islamabad. In a video clip sent to Pajhwok Afghan News, the deputy presidential ...

KABUL: The United States Department of Defense has said the refurbishment work of 53 UH-60 or Blackhawk helicopters for the Afghan security forces has commenced. According to a new Pentagon report on Afghanistan “Under the ANDSF Road Map, the SMW will also expand to provide additional helicopter crews, consolidate the PC-12 aircraft into a new fixed-wing kandak, and create an ...

KABUL: China is a supporter to the reconstruction and development of new Afghanistan, and would always stand beside the country, Chinese foreign ministry said. “Since longtime, China has been providing ground assistant to Afghanistan—built some hospitals, schools and other infrastructures, and would continue doing that,” Chen Feng, Counselor and Division Director of Chinese Foreign Affairs said. He said this during ...

The recent ghastly terror attacks in Kabul and London makes me wonder whether such acts of violence are fast becoming the new normal in our lives. Over the last few years, we, as citizens of this world, have grieved for hundreds of innocent lives lost in Boston, Brussels, Paris, Nice, Ankara and many other cities, and have held numerous international ...

ANP has owned Mashal Khan and has stood up to the extremists’ violent narrative Academia and political analysts throughout the world use framework of hegemony constructed by Antonio Gramsci and analysis of the culture of silence by Paulo Frere to understand silencing of voices raised for the aspirations of masses who claim nationhood. Seen in this context, one is not ...

ISLAMABAD/DAWN: Fencing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has commenced in an effort to improve the security situation along the international boundary, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Army’s media wing, said Tuesday. The construction of the fence will take place in two phases. In the first phase, the ‘high-infiltration prone’ border areas in Bajaur, Mohmand and Khyber Agencies will be sealed off; ...

KABUL: Renowned astrologer Abdullah Kandahari has predicted that Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated in Afghanistan on Sunday (June 25). He told Pajhwok Afghan News the month of Ramazan would be of 29 days and the moon of Shawal could be sighted at sunset in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province. The final and formal announcement of Eid-ul-Fitr would be made ...