AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai condemned with strongest terms a terrorist attack on Wednesday afternoon on an educational center in Kabul that left tens of students killed and injured. The bombing was an explicit example of crime against humanity perpetrated by the enemies of Afghanistan who are frightened by progress these …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday it was concerned about a recent threat of the Taliban against the global panel. The Taliban recently declared an intention to withdraw their security commitment to the International Red Cross, accusing it of negligence towards situation of …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: After almost a week of siege and violent onslaught, Afghan security forces have retaken full control of southern Ghazni as the militant Taliban have been pushed out of the main city and a handful of nearby villages, and a semblance of normalcy has returned there, said the …

AT-KABUL: In series of terrorist attacks against civilians, 48 civilians were martyred and 67 more injuredafter a terrorist detonated his explosive belt among hundreds of students in an educational center in west of Kabul city. The bomber, on foot and disguised as student, detonated the explosives, attached to his body, …

Afghanistan is not a secure place either to live or to work in. This is what the sworn enemies are trying to inject in our mind. This is our motherland and we will make it secure with our blood. We will never abandon our garden with different flowers such as …

AT-KABUL: The battle to retake Ghazni is drawing to a close as Afghan armed forces advanced on Tuesday against Taliban in most of parts of the beleaguered city and militant positions kept shrinking amid a full-scale counterassault that began the day before, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Afghan security forces …

AT-KABUL: A prominent Pakistani senator Afrasiab Khattak said on Tuesday that the Pakistani government was behind the terrorist rampage and the fighting in Ghazni city, describing Islamabad’s Afghan policy as ‘unmitigated disaster’. “Pakistani government needs to explain reports about the dead bodies of Pakistanis coming in from the war in …

The recent intensive fighting in Ghazni city, a strategic urban center less than 100 miles from the capital, Kabul, besides martyring of dozens of Afghan soldiers and police officers, it has also heavily punched people in embattled city by scarcity of food. It also cut communications and severing the main …

AT-KABUL: People faced shortage of food, water and medicine in southern Ghazni as fighting between the armed forces and the Taliban triggered a closure of routes leading to the city, said UN agency on Tuesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Tuesdayvoiced concerns that the …

AT-KABUL: Some 17 convicted drug traffickers have been sentenced to short and long term in prison over the past week, said the court of criminal justice task force on Tuesday. CJTF in a press statement said the primary and appeal court of CJTF have convicted 17 smugglers to two and …