India has been a valuable partner of Afghanistan and its people over the decades, says an Afghan diplomat. Ambassador Farid Mamundzay hailed Indo-Afghan friendship while addressing an event in New Delhi on Wednesday. Supported by the India-Afghanistan Foundation, the Gandhi-Bacha Khan week is currently being celebrated. ANI news agency quoted the envoy as commending robust people-to-people contacts between the two […]

Four security personnel were injured when their pick up vehicle overturned in the Badpakh district of eastern Laghman province on Thursday, officials said. A spokesman for the Laghman governor, Salahuddin Zahid, confirmed the incident to Pajhwok Afghan News, saying four security personnel were injured when their vehicle overturned at around 10am. But he did not give further details. Abdul Wali, […]

Observers saw the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last year as a strategic victory for neighboring Pakistan after years of frosty relations between Islamabad and the Western-backed government in Kabul that collapsed last August. Security concerns along the two nations’ border have since complicated the picture. Many Pakistanis celebrated the Taliban’s return to power, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, who declared […]

German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan a potential focal point for extremists around the world. In a speech in London, he also raised the concern […]