NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on the eve of the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday that the alliance will “closely consult” on the way forward in Afghanistan.

On January 11, 2021, a four-year-old Christian girl Eshal was abducted, raped and killed in Malkhanwala village in Waras Pura tehsil (revenue unit) of Faisalabad District. On January 9, 2021, the dead bodies of two Christian girls were found in a sewer near Makhan Colony in the Kahna area of Lahore. They were abducted and killed by Muhammad Mumtaz and […]

Some Afghan diplomats continued to serve in some of Afghanistan’s foreign missions beyond the legal period of three years in violation of the relevant law, Pajhwok Afghan News reliably learned on Wednesday.

Six security personnel in a check-post have been killed and four others wounded in an in insider attack on Zabul-Kandahar highway while a National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel was killed and two other were wounded in southwestern Daikundi province, officials said Monday.

Five police force members were killed in an explosion on their vehicle in Chapa Dara district in Kunar province on Friday night, a provincial council member Din Mohammad said.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has suggested that Berlin’s military deployment in Afghanistan should be extended beyond its expiration in March, Germany’s dpaInternational reported. Quoted by the Funke Media Group newspapers in comments published Saturday, Maas said that the peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban will not be completed by then.

A survey by an Afghan news agency shows that the Taliban controls at least 52 percent of the country’s territory while 59 percent of the population lives in areas under the government’s control. The survey conducted by Pajhwok Afghan News shows that the Afghan government controls 46 percent of the territory.

Taliban blamed the Afghan government for prolonging violence and said it is firm in its commitments. Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib at a press briefing on Saturday said the Taliban has does not have the authority for negotiations and that group so far has shown no desire for peace and is seeking to seize absolute power.

Leader of the Hezb-e-Islami party Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said on Sunday that if government failed to abide by conditions laid out in the US-Taliban agreement, signed in February last year, there would be a revolt and the Presidential Palace would fall.

President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that the Soviet Union troop withdrawal from Afghanistan had been “irresponsible” and without proper planning the country slid into a devastating civil war.