Pakistani diplomats in Kabul have angrily reacted to suggestions by a senior Afghan official to interfere in the Pakistani visa operations. Afghan First Vice-President Amrullah Saleh has recently embarked on a “dangerous trend” by raking a debate around issuance of Pakistani visa and deliberately take the matter into controversies, a Pakistani official at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul told Daily […]

At least four security force members were killed in two separate attacks in Kabul in the last 12 hours, police said.

A veteran Pakistani jihadist who rose to the highest levels of leadership within Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was killed by Afghan security forces in a recent raid in Farah province. The Al Qaeda leader, known as Mohammad Hanif, was involved in the 2002 assassination attempt on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and the suicide attack on the U.S. Consulate […]

At least seven people, including security force members and civilians, were killed in three separate incidents in the city of Kabul in the last 24 hours, according to police. One of the incidents happened in Lab-e-Jar area in the north of Kabul on Wednesday morning in which an IED blast targeted a police vehicle and killed three policemen and a […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday said that Afghanistan remains the deadliest country for civilians, with the Afghan women and children make up half of the fatalities. Robert Mardini, Director General of the ICRC who is currently visiting Afghanistan said that the escalation of violence in Afghanistan in recent months has worsened the humanitarian situation in […]

Afghanistan security forces have killed a Pakistani bomb-maker who trained Taliban militants before switching allegiance to Al-Qaeda in western Farah province, the country’s intelligence agency said Wednesday.

In a meeting held in Islamabad on Wednesday, Iran’s top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa conferred on important issues, including the fight against terrorism and strengthening border security cooperation, as well as the expansion of military relations between the two neighboring countries.

Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov in a meeting with Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Wednesday, said his country supports an Afghan-own and Afghan-led peace process and is ready to help in this respect, Abdullah’s office said in a statement.

At least two security force members were killed and two wounded in an MI-17 helicopter crash in Nangarhar province on Tuesday night, the Ministry of Defense claims.

The Lower House of the Afghan Parliament (Wolesi Jirga) will put a poll box for voting for 10 of the government’s ministerial nominees next week, the MPs said Wednesday. According to MPs, the documents of these ministerial nominees have been assessed and they will face a confidence vote in parliament next Monday.