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By Farhad Naibkhel-ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday termed Daesh a foreign project, asking Central Asia countries to jointly work to foil the terrorist group’s threats in the region. “Daesh is entirely foreign and it created to cause challenges in Afghanistan and in the region and surly if …

Afghan peace process is continuously dragged on by the international and regional players. Giving length to the reconciliation drive is in their larger interests, but costs lives and properties of Afghan people.  Lives of the Afghan masses are of little value for them as the key players are in the …

By Farhad Naibkhel-ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Former President Hamid Karzai calls “bad policies and wrong definition of the national interest” as the main factors behind terrorism and extremism. “I don’t believe that extremism, radicalism and terrorism are only because of social condition or religion,” Karzai stated in a speech at the Eurasian …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours killed at least 48 militants during several military operations across the country, the Ministry of Defense on Friday said in a media statement. The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces in past 24 hours launched several crackdowns against insurgents in Nangarhar, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Acting defense minister Masoom Stanikzai in a visit to Kunduz province on Friday, said that Afghanistan is facing an imposed war. He added that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces would not remain silent against the conspiracies of enemies of the country. Stanikza was accompanied by …

KABUL: After deadly Kabul suicide attack, Afghan government ordered the Afghan National Security Forces for the ‘no mercy policy’ against militants to eliminate “the enemy everywhere they are spotted”, officials said in a press conference on Thursday. “President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the Afghan National Security Forces to repress the …

Thousands of acres of agricultural lands are destroyed or damaged annually in the spring floods across Afghanistan, particularly in the central, north, east and west north provinces. Human casualties are other calamity of this natural disaster. The flood makes a border problem as well, as it damages the Afghanistan side …

AT-KABUL: The Civil society bodies condemned the recent suicide attack in Kabul in a strongest and possible terms, asking the National Unity Government to introduce new nominees for the Ministry of Defense and also for the National Directorate of Security to the parliament for vote of confidence as soon as …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The night before Kabul’s suicide attack, President Ashraf Ghani met some members of the parliament to discuss security situation, the lawmakers said Wednesday. “President Ghani marked the next six months bloody for Afghanistan as militants intensified attacks,” the lawmakers who met Ghani, told parliament session. A …

AT-KABUL: An analysis session held by the Rana Think Tank, called the current government weaker comparing the past administrations, saying that mistakes in the serving government are much more than experienced in the monarchy and the administrations after that. Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, former Kabul provincial governor who now heads the …