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 […]

Three suspects arrested for the targeted assassination of Yousuf Rashid, CEO of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), have confessed to being Taliban members, the ministry of interior said Monday.

Some Afghan politicians said on Sunday that President Ashraf Ghani has cultivated new friendships with some of his critics in order to avoid an interim government and to stay in power. This comes after Ghani appointed Mohammad Mohaqiq, head of the Wahdat-i-Islami Party, as his senior political and military adviser and introduced Rahila Dostum as a member of the Wolesi […]

At least three people, including a security force official, were killed in the attack that came as Afghan negotiators are to resume talks with the Taliban aimed at finding an end to decades of relentless conflict. At least three people were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says increase in violence contrary to Taliban’s commitment to peace A senior Afghan government official was among three people killed in the capital Kabul on Sunday, an official confirmed, as violence continues despite the start of the second round of peace talks.

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.