AT-KABUL: Former intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh reacted to Balkh governor’s resignation, asking the ex-governor’s fans not to “worry” and not to blame what he called “dust and trash”. The powerful governor who ruled the Northern Province for more than a decade, resigned and President Ashraf Ghani accepted his resignation on …

AT-KABUL: The government seems serious in protection of the water dams as water and energy minister said Monday that a committee was formed for this purpose. Ali Ahmad Osmani, told legislators that the committee was formed to prevent security threats against the dams. “Each dam has a certain enemy,” Osmani …

AT-KABUL: A large number of Taliban militants have been suffered massive casualties as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force in northern Sar-e-Pul province, 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army said on Monday. According to a statement issued by the Shaheen Corps, the airstrikes …

AT-KABUL: The President Ashraf Ghani on Monday warned the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces to stay away from politics and ethnic issues and be disciplined and patriotic to serve the country in a better way. President Ghani made the remarks during the introductory ceremony of three new deputies to …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has accepted the resignation of Atta Mohammad Noor as Balkh governor who remained in charge for over 13 years. Accepting Noor’s resignation, President Ghani appointed Mohammad Dawod as new governor of northern Balkh province, a statement from Presidential Palace said. Previously, Noor had tendered his registration …

AT-KABUL: The government claims that some two million migrants have voluntarily returned home from neighboring and other countries. “From this number, 500,000 have returned just this year,” said Sayed Hossain Alemi Balkhi, minister of refugees and repatriates. He said that compulsory expelling of Afghan refugees was prevented in the European …

By Suhasini Haidar-Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says U.S’s South Asia policy has been a disappointment as it hasn’t backed it up with action against terrorist safe havens in Pakistan Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hosted a banquet for him, attended by …

Afghanistan is going to hold the long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections which are being scheduled on July 7, 2018—some three years after they were meant to take place. Without doubt, the success of polls will depend on proper funding and of course better security environment. Certainly, the government can’t …

AT-KABUL: At least eleven policemen embraced martyrdom and 12 Taliban insurgents have been killed in overnight militants’ attacks in southwestern Helmand province, officials said on Sunday. Several Taliban fighters on Sunday early morning, attacked security check-posts of the Afghan forces in east of Lashkargah, the capital city, in which 11 …

AT-KABUL: The Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has urged the Pakistan’s parliamentary delegation to shun terror havens and dismantle networks of terrorist groups functioning in Pakistan, from where they (militant groups) have been launching and operating terrorist and destructive activities in Afghanistan. Referring to Pakistan’s duplicity in war on terror …