Monday’s terror attack in Kabul was security lapse: Analyst By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: The Minister of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday suspended four key security officials following Kabul mosque terrorist attack, in which at least 32 innocent worshipers were killed and more than 80 others wounded. “Following Monday’s terrorist attack in Kabul, …

Anti-corruption structures are not accountable for current corruption crisis: Afzali By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Transparency International (TI) in collaboration with the Integrity Watch of Afghanistan (IWA) on Tuesday released a report which revealed that the National Unity Government has fulfilled only a few anti-corruption commitments in the past two years …

Monday marked the bloodiest day of the current solar month, Qaws. It was first day of the Quas (November 21) when a fanatic targeted the Baqer-ul Ulom mosque in the capital city, Kabul, and massacred at least 32 worshippers and injured over 50 others. Driven by radical ideology and madness, …

Executive and legislative must respect Supreme Court’s decision; Govt must focus on capacity building of ministries; Wolesi Jirga’s decision was politically motivated By M. Nadeem Alizai-KABUL: As the government and the Wolesi Jirga have locked horns over disqualification of ministers, political affairs analysts and legal experts urged the two pillars …

Afghan leaders strongly condemned the attack over prayers in Kabul and called it an act against Afghans and Islam By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 30 civilians were killed and another 85 wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive inside a mosque in Kabul Monday afternoon, officials said. “A suicide …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai expressed his deep grief over the demise of Hajji Gul Ahmadzai, a tribal elder who passed away due to an illness he was suffering from. Karzai added that late Hajji Gul Ahmadzai belonged to a noble family in Paktia province and he had made significant …

AT-KABUL: The former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday attended the 12th Mother Teresa memorial award for justice hosted by Harmony Foundation in Mumbai, India. “Karzai gave the Mother Teresa award to the mother of Faraaz Hossain,” Karzai’s office said in a statement Monday. Faraaz Hossain was martyred in terrorist attack …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The anti-terrorism department of ministry of interior on Monday said that it succeeded to avoid transferring of a Haqqani linked intelligence network from Pakistan to eastern Laghman province. “Afghan police managed to arrest three terrorist, who planned to shift a terrorist intelligence network connected to Haqqani terrorist …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Monday condemned in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack on the worshippers in the Baqer-ul-Uloom Mosque in Kabul that killed and wounded a number of innocent people. He termed the unforgivable and inhumane act the work of the enemies of Afghanistan. “It is …

KABUL: The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned Monday’s attack at the Baqer-ul Ulom mosque in Kabul that killed at least 32 civilians and injured more than 50 others, many of them children. A suicide attacker detonated his body-borne improvised explosive device at the mosque killing and maiming worshipers from the …