TEHRAN: The leaders of Afghanistan, India and Iran signed the Chabahr port agreement in Tehran, the capital city of Iran today. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and The Iranian President Hassan Rouani signed the agreement. The Afghan President directly travelled to Tehran today to sign the agreement after concluding a two-day official visit to Qatar. The ...

The foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday agreed to sustain the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan beyond 2016. “Foreign Ministers from the nations participating in Resolute Support agreed today (20 May 2016) to sustain the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan beyond 2016 in a sign of strong commitment to the stability of the country,” a statement by ...

A few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the United States and its NATO allies for taking on the “burden” of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and urged them to “carry it to the end.” But the Kremlin today appears to have embarked on a new policy aimed at turning Afghanistan into a setback or even a quagmire for Washington ...

WASHINGTON: America’s initial assessment of Afghanistan when the Soviet forces invaded the country went wrong, former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Wednesday. He favoured the United States staying the course in Afghanistan and remaining engaged in the nation-building exercise if Washington really desired to prevent major terrorist attacks. Khalilzad told a Washington audience the United States failed in adjusting its ...

Kalash students attend a class at a school in the Brun village of Bumboret valley. ─ AFP   CHITRAL: Pakistan’s smallest religious minority, the Kalash speak their own language and celebrate their gods through music, dance ─ and alcohol, which they brew themselves in Chitral’s plunging verdant valleys. Here, the sexes mingle easily, marriage can be sealed with a dance, ...

More or less, 30 – 40 percent of trade transactions are taking place online world wide in developed economies. This is because; this very important method of buying and selling products and services are much convenient compared to 19th century. Markets have become more intangible and are now spread across the web as virtual market place where consumers and sellers ...

March 30, 2016 | Richard N. Haass The US presidential election is still more than half a year away, and it is impossible to know with any certainty who will be nominated to represent the major parties, much less who will be the 45th occupant of the White House. But it is not too soon to assess the mood of ...

It is not anti-Americanism for Afghans to question the US military presence and the ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan. The Taliban has rejected the Afghan government’s offer for peace talks as “futile” and “misleading”, saying they would be “contradictory” in the face of the fresh deployment of US troops and continued US air strikes and night raids in Afghanistan. Last ...

KABUL: The New Beginning Network launched its second discussion as part of the “Academic Discourse Series 2016” with scholars, intellectuals and members of civil society in Kabul and urged the government to include positive cultural values in its national development strategies for peace, national unity and sustainable economic development. Dr Hassan Makaremi, a psychoanalyst and strategy development expert from Iran ...

PESHAWAR: Men sporting earthy shalwar kameez and pakol caps are accompanied by women in colourful dresses laden with mirrors; they gather on the open floor, making a loose square, then fall into rhythm as they sync their steps to dance the Bragai, or what is known as the combined Attan. The dance is incomplete without the dhol: a double-headed wooden ...