Head of pro-Iran Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami party will meet Pakistani premier, top diplomat An Afghan political party leader will pay a three-day visit to Islamabad on Monday to discuss the ongoing intra-Afghan dialogue with the Pakistani leadership, officials said on Sunday.

The blast occurred around 8:30am local time in the Kart-e-Naw area in PD8 of Kabul city, Kabul police said. Three people were killed–including Zia Wadan, a spokesman for the Public Protection Force–in an explosion in Kabul city on Sunday morning, the Interior Ministry confirmed.

The airstrike took place in Munazari village in Khashrod district on Saturday night. An airstrike in the western province of Nimroz on Saturday night left 18 people dead, all members of one family, said Baz Mohammad Nasir, head of the provincial council in the province.

Protests over the killing of 11 Shi’ite Hazara minority coal miners by Islamic State militants on Sunday have spread to other cities in Pakistan, including the economic powerhouse of Karachi.

Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police and the country’s intelligence agency raided hideouts of an outlawed Shiite militant group in the eastern Punjab province and arrested seven suspects who allegedly wanted to attack leaders of rival Sunni Muslims’ groups, a spokesman said Thursday.

Attacks in Afghanistan left at least 23 civilians and security forces dead, officials said Thursday, even as Afghan negotiators were in Qatar to resume talks with the Taliban aimed at finding an end to decades of conflict.

Pakistan’s decision to join the global war on terrorism (GWOT) was the result of geostrategic imperatives and the international community’s call. Although the international community has always calculated Pakistan’s counterterrorism role through the Afghanistan angle, they have failed to recognize the deterioration of Pakistan’s internal security and economic conditions due to the GWOT. Pakistan’s interior security had begun to break […]

The Ministry of Interior says there are so many madrassas that are not registered. The Ministry of Interior Affairs says the government plans to take control of a network of over 5,000 madrassas as part of a drive to mainstream religious schools by putting them under the control of the state.

A Kandahar security official says the Taliban has been “heavily defeated” in Kandahar. The Taliban attacks on various parts of Kandahar over the last few weeks that were aimed at overrunning the center of its districts have been pushed back and the group has suffered heavy casualties, a senior security official in the province said.

Gen. Haibatullah Alizai was appointed as commander of the Special Operations Corps, replacing Gen. Farid Ahmadi. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has appointed new commanders for at least three Army corps as part of the government’s reforms agenda in the security sector and preparations for the fight against militants, officials said on Friday.