High on the agenda is the continuing peace process between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban. A prominent Afghan Shia Muslim leader has held talks with Pakistan’s foreign minister, as that country continues to reel from the brutal killing of 10 Shia coal miners in a targeted attack in the southwest earlier this month.

“The Foreign Minister reiterated Pakistan’s consistent support for a peaceful, stable and prosperous Afghanistan,” Pakistan said. Mohammad Karim Khalili, the leader of Hizb-e-Wahdat-e Islami and the former head of the High Peace Council, during a trip to Pakistan met with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday.

The attack happened in PD5 of Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh province. At least two female ANA soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in a gunmen attack on an army vehicle in Balkh province on Tuesday morning, local officials said.

Islamabad however does not blame Kabul for growing Daesh/ISIS activities, says army spokesman The Pakistan army on Monday alleged that the terrorist organization Daesh/ISIS is using the Afghan territories to operate against Pakistan with India’s backing.

Pakistan’s military said Monday it has nearly completed a fence along the border with Afghanistan, which Islamabad says is necessary to prevent militant attacks from both sides.

A day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan accused India of backing Daesh/ISIS in South Asia, Islamabad charged New Delhi of hindering the ongoing peace process in war-torn Afghanistan.

The Ghani administration and the Taliban are fighting a public-relations battle, with the government taking more drastic measures to control the flow of information. After Ahmad Jawad Hijri saw the wounded children in the hospital and learned of the Afghan airstrike that put them there, killing nine others around their age in northern Afghanistan, he never expected that his response […]

The Taliban was extorting people on the highway, “earning millions of afghanis” a day, army forces said. Afghan commando forces in an operation have cleared the Baghlan-Balkh highway from Taliban “checkpoints” during an operation this week, security officials said on Sunday.

One of those killed was Paghman elder Malik Murtaza, whose two bodyguards were also killed in an attack by armed men in Kabul. One of those killed was Paghman elder Malik Murtaza, whose two bodyguards were also killed in an attack by armed men in Kabul’s Qargha area on Sunday evening. His family called on the government to find the […]

Ustad Karim Khalili, leader of Hezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami and former vice president of Afghanistan, is expected to arrive in Islamabad Monday for a three day visit. Leading a delegation, Khalili will meet with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan; foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi; Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaisar, and other dignitaries, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson said in a […]