Kabul, June 3 (Agencies): Three blasts in Kabul on Saturday killed at least 20 people at a funeral for one of the victims of clashes between police and protesters a day before. The explosions continued a wave of violence in the capital since a devastating truck bombing on Wednesday killed 90 and injured hundreds. Twenty […]
Washington, June 3 (Pajhwok): With the Trump Administration in the US looking at other countries to share responsibilities in addressing major global challenges, a prominent Indian defense expert told a Washington audience on Thursday that New Delhi could perhaps be persuaded to send up to a division of Indian troops – around 15,000 — to […]
Kabul, May 31 (AFP): At least 40 people were killed or wounded Wednesday as a massive blast ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, shattering the morning rush hour and bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital. Bodies littered the scene and a huge plume of smoke rose from the area which houses foreign embassies. […]
Kabul, May 20 (Reuters): Afghanistan’ first all-women TV station, Zan TV (“Women’s TV”), goes on air on Sunday ,May 20. The launch has been preceded by a high-profile marketing campaign on billboards in Kabul and on social media. Female newsreaders appear regularly on many Afghan channels, but an entire station for women is a novelty. […]
KABUL (AFP): The Afghan defense minister and his army chief resigned Monday, days after what is believed to be one of the deadliest-ever Taliban attacks on a military base triggered calls for officials to step down. “President Ashraf Ghani has accepted the resignation of the defence minister and army chief of staff,” a one-line statement […]
Washington, April 13 (Reuters): The US military on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal, the GBU-43, in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The apparent target of the air strike was a network of caves used by the militant Islamic State (IS). It was the first time this type of bomb had been used in […]
Islamabad, March 6, (Dawn): Pakistan will temporary open border crossings at Torkham and Chaman for two days to allow stranded Afghan nationals to return to their country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Monday. Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal had earlier said that Afghanistan would make arrangements to airlift thousands of Afghan […]
Islamabad, March 5 (The Express Tribune): Afghanistan’s envoy in Pakistan said here on Saturday, that he will urge his government to arrange special flights to airlift Afghan nationals stranded in Pakistan if the country does not reopen the border within two days. Pakistani authorities closed the border with Afghanistan on February 16 after 88 people […]
Kabul, February 21 (Outlook Afghanistan): The Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah said at the Council of Ministers’ meeting here on Monday, that Afghanistan is a victim of terrorism and it is unfair to accuse the state of supporting terror and violence. “The only solution is to cooperate with our anti-terror campaign and to stop […]
By Sanaa Alimia/Dawn BY expelling millions of Afghans, Pakistan is engaged in one of the world’s “largest unlawful mass forced return of refugees”. From Fortress Europe’s human rights violations on refugees to Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, anti-refugee trends are at a global peak. Yet whilst the Syrian refugee crisis and Trump’s anti-Muslim policies generate moral […]