By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Experts participating in the Rana Think Tank monthly session on Monday expressed concerns over current crisis, calling social integration the only remedy to lead the country toward stability and development. Political and social experts who participated in the Think Tank monthly session, said that discord, nepotism and …
Read More »Masoud condemns MOAB strike: ‘There is other proper way to eliminate Daesh’
AT-KABUL: Political expert and Ex-president Karzai’s advisor Shahzada Masoud on Tuesday condemned the use of mother of bombs by US forces on Daesh tunnels in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province. He said that there was other proper ways to target Daesh fighters. The US forces Afghanistan conducted an …
Read More »No forgiveness for Nangarhar attack: Karzai
“Regional countries should join hands to save Afghanistan from current situation” AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai lambasted Washington for dropping a BGU-43/B ‘mother of all bombs” the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal – on Nangarhar province as an action that could never be forgiven, and said the US should …
Read More »Taliban’s gains, loss since 2006
AT-KABUL: Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi in an email calculating statistics and figures of Taliban’s fight over the past ten years has said, since 2006 till 2017, the Taliban insurgent groups have carried out 103,927 operational activities against Afghan government personnel and foreign troops. This includes 1,075 suicide attacks. These …
Read More »Karzai calls recent US bombing ‘an immense atrocity’
KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people.” Last week, U.S. forces dropped the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb in eastern …
Read More »Editorial: Pride or shame?
It is very shameful act that one Afghan to be killed by another, and the most disgraceful is to claim responsibility for the killing in a manner of pride instead of shame. The Afghan masses during more than three decades of war have gone through many ups and downs. But …
Read More »Kapisa officials detained on corruption charges
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local provincial authorities on Tuesday said that ten military and civilian officials have been detained in central Kapisa provinces on charges of corruption. Police Spokesperson Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that the individuals were detained on Monday by Ministry of Interior’s Heinous Crime Department Personnel. …
Read More »MOAB ‘brutal act against innocent people’: Karzai
Ex-Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells Al Jazeera US bomb reportedly targeting ISIL is a threat to Afghan sovereignty KABUL: An attack that saw the United States drop the largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan was a “brutal act” against Afghan people, the environment and the country’s sovereignty, Hamid Karzai, former president, …
Read More »Editorial: Negligence is not acceptable
It is impossible to simply praise the efforts of the Afghan security forces with only expressing some words. They are making indefatigable efforts in maintaining security in the war-hit country. They are safeguarding the national values, thwarting anti-Afghan conspiracies, bravery resistance against foreign mercenaries, and always situated their chest in …
Read More »“Hideouts of terrorists are outside”
National Movement of Afghanistan reacts over use of ‘mother of all bombs’ on Achin AT-KABUL: Since the US-led international coalition started bombardment Afghan villages, Afghan nation has been shouting that the roots of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are outside Afghanistan, but the international troops are not listening to the …
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