Pakistani envoy said in an interview with Ariana News that Pakistan and Afghanistan has formed a joint committee to address security and military affairs related to both countries. Mansoor Ahmad Khan, Pakistani ambassador in Kabul, said that the current peace opportunity in Afghanistan is due to Pakistan’s efforts.

Secretary General of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) strongly condemned the assassination of a prominent Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and said the Zionist regime and the United States are behind the heinous cowardly act.

A car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni killed at least 40 Afghan soldiers and wounded 24, Ghazni public health department told CNN on Sunday. An attacker detonated an explosive packed vehicle in front of a security base in the Deh Yak district of the province.

The international community has imposed stricter conditions on the Afghan government in exchange for continued aid to the country. Nazir Kabiri, CEO of Biruni Institute, a research organization in Kabul, said that in the future the Afghan government will need to brief the international community about programs that it had undertaken in the past year and also its programs for […]

At least three civilians were killed and 23 others were wounded in a suicide attack in Zabul on Sunday morning, security sources reported. Among the wounded was Ata Jan Haqbayan, head of Zabul’s provincial council, who is believed to be the target of the attack.

At least 31 people, mostly security forces, were killed in a suicide attack in Ghazni province on Sunday, local health officials stated. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives close to a public protection unit in Ghazni on Sunday morning, said the spokesman for provincial governor Wahidullah Jumazada.

At least 21 security force members have been killed and 17 others reportedly wounded in a suicide bombing on Sunday morning in Ghazni province, local officials said.

As events unfolded on Sunday following a deadly suicide bombing in Ghazni city the exact casualty figures are still unknown as officials from different government departments all gave different tallies. Local officials confirmed a Humvee full of explosives was detonated close to a public protection unit in PD3 of Ghazni city.

Sayed Hamid Gailani, Chairman of Mahaz-e-Milli party said in an interview with Ariana News that the establishment of a new body is necessary to lead peace talks. According to Gailani the new body should be acceptable to all parties.

The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers are being criminalised and even made to disappear when it comes to the struggle for land. They are constantly exposed to systematic expulsion.