For more than four months, tens of thousands of Indian farmers have gathered on the outskirts of New Delhi to protest a slate of new agricultural laws passed in September. Farmers say the new measures, which remove price guarantees for certain crops, will leave them at the mercy of large corporations, while at the same time removing paths for legal […]

Afghan politicians say Afghanistan as a whole, and government, has not yet settled on a single agenda to be presented at the Istanbul Summit scheduled for early April. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is working on a plan to reduce violence and end the war – a plan that will be presented to delegates at the summit.

At least 17 members of the Haqqani Network have been killed in an operation by the NDS in Khost province, the NDS said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the operation was conducted in parts of Khost, particularly in the Zumbar Clinic area.

A security official was killed in an attack by unknown armed men on Wednesday in Logar province, police said. According to police, Farid Faiyaz, an official from the Border Police Brigade in Paktia, was gunned down in the Khizr Bazar area of Logar’s capital Pul-e-Alam at 10 am Wednesday. Police said Faiyaz came under attack while he was traveling from […]

US special envoy for Afghanistan’s reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with senior Taliban leaders including Mullah Baradar in Qatar on Wednesday to discuss provisions of the US-Taliban agreement signed in Doha last year.

The head of the Takhar Ulema council died on Wednesday in an IED explosion, officials confirmed. According to security officials, two other people were injured in the incident. Officials said the IED had been embedded inside Mawlavi Abdul Samad Mohammadi’s vehicle.

While efforts are underway by the US to accelerate the peace process, and concerns grow about the Taliban’s looming Spring Offensive, President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday that all youths in the country must think of ways in which Afghanistan’s problems can be solved. Speaking at the first meeting of the High Youth Council, Ghani said the newly established council […]

Pakistan government said on Sunday that a foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should be done in a responsible way in order to avoid a “vacuum”. Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Pakistan believes “that the withdrawal of troops should be orderly and responsible so as not to create a vacuum”.

Violence continues to surge despite peace efforts, and at least 13 people lost their lives and 25 more were wounded in different security incidents in various parts of the country in the last 24 hours, according to officials. Kabul, Paktia, Laghman, Kandahar and Khost provinces witnessed security incidents since Saturday evening. In Kabul, an Afghan Air Force member, Sefatullah Faqir, […]

As US negotiations to secure peace with the Taliban drag on, hopes fade for a stable American withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Joe Biden has already said he will ignore a previously agreed deadline to extricate US forces by May 1, hinting instead that soldiers will be gone by next year. His intelligence agencies are pushing back even against this delayed […]