Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, praised President Trump on Monday for challenging Pakistan to increase its cooperation on anti-terrorism measures. “President @realDonaldTrump tweet on Pakistan’s duplicitous position over the past 15 years is vindication that the war on terror is not in bombing Afghan villages and homes but …
Read More »NDS detains 13 Daesh militants ‘plotting big attacks’ in Kabul
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Wednesday that its operatives have detained 13 loyalists terrorist of Daesh (Islamic State), who were attempting to plot big attacks in Kabul, the capital city. “A vast Daesh Network, having internal and external links, has been arrested by intelligence operatives,” NDS …
Read More »White House to announce further action against Pakistan within two days
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The White House Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has said that US wants Pakistan to do more in the fight against terrorism and it will continue to increase pressure on Islamabad within days. She said this on Tuesday while talking to media persons at White House. She added that …
Read More »Editorial: Mega-regional projects this year
2018 will be a year of opportunity, and transparency. We hope that, and taking it as a year toward having a better tomorrow from what we are suffering today. 2017 was a real roller coaster, serving up optimism and pessimism in equal measures. We have witnessed deadly attacks, with martyring …
Read More »Nine drug traffickers detained
AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), on Wednesday said that nine drug trafficker arrested in the past one week. CJTF in a press statement, said that nine smugglers were apprehended by Counter Narcotics Police through different crackdown in various provinces and were handed over to CJTF for …
Read More »Trump’s assail on Pakistan, a promising message to Afghanistan
“Trump tweet on Pakistan’s duplicitous position over the past 15 years is vindication that the war on terror is not in bombing Afghan villages and homes but in the sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan,” Hamid Karzai By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: Donald Trump, the US president in his first tweet of the year …
Read More »Editorial: Boom Boom Donald Trump
The US President Donald Trump by acknowledging the very obvious truth has taken realistic and widely popular approach on Pakistan in the beginning of the New Year, 2018. Slamming Pakistan for its lies and duplicity with no end in sight, President Trump in his first tweet of the year said, …
Read More »E-ID cards rollout ‘pending presidential order’
AT-KABUL: There is no issue, only waiting for Presidential Palace order to rollout Electronic Identity Cards (E-ID), the spokesman for the Afghanistan Central Civil Registration Authority (ACCRA), Rohullah Ahmadzai said on Tuesday. The E-ID cards rollout is pending order from President Ashraf Ghani, he said, adding there are no technical …
Read More »Senate terms Iranian troops’ operation in Nimroz as “big shame”
AT-KABUL: Senators called an operation carried out by Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the bordering province of Nimroz a “big shame” as the international coalition has military presence in Afghanistan. “The operation that was launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Nimroz is a big shame in …
Read More »French, Uzbek Daesh militants killed in Jawzjan
AT-KABUL: Three French and four Uzbekistan fighters loyal to the Daesh extremist group have been killed in an airstrike carried out in the Darzab district of northern Faryab province, official said on Tuesday. According to the officials, the strike was conducted on Monday evening when Daesh militants were gathered in …
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