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KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai on Monday flew to China to attend a conference on the Afghan peace process, his office said. “The former president was formally invited by the Shanghai Institute for International Studies to attend the peace conference,” his spokesman Yousuf Sahar said. He said Karzai would speak …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Radio-Television Union (ARTU) on Monday strongly condemned the attack on Kabora production staff, asking the government to form a special unit for ensuring media security across the country. “The media outlets call on the government to establish a special police unit to ensure their security …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) called terrorism the common threat to both Pakistan and Afghanistan, urging Islamabad to pave grounds for a joint “offensive” with Kabul in a bid to eliminate terrorism in the region. Calling the terrorists as enemies to the two countries, the party secretary …

AT-KABUL: Pakistan police have detained more than 50 Afghan migrants in a search operation in different parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani media reported Monday. Pakistani security forces carried out raids in Karkhano Market, Ashnaghari and Qazi Qala, arresting 159 people, including 55 Afghans. Police have said that the …

AT-KABUL: Police have detained 32 smugglers of drug and alcohol in different provinces, the Criminal Justice Task Force said Monday. “Police identified and arrested the smugglers in Kabul, Herat, Uruzgan, Zabul, Parwan, Helmand, Nangarhar, Faryab, Paktia, Kapisa, Logar, Kunduz, Jawzjan and Samangan provinces,” it said in a statement. “More than …

KABUL: The former chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that Pakistan was not respecting territorial integrity of Afghanistan. In his speech at the fourth round of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Bilateral Dialogue held here on Saturday, Amrullah Saleh said that last month the ex-president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf singled …

AT-KABUL: Seven people were killed Monday and five other injured when a group of Taliban fighters attacked a police outpost in southern Kandahar province, a provincial official said. The attack took place in the Spin Boldak district, bordering Baluchistan province of Pakistan. The five attackers tried to enter the outpost …

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to “bury” the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters. In a BBC interview, Mr Ghani said IS was “not an Afghan phenomenon” and its atrocities had “alienated the people”. “Afghans are now motivated by …

Millions of people across the eastern US are clearing up after the weekend’s massive snowstorm that virtually paralysed the region. They have been digging out their cars and clearing pathways of snow which reached 3ft (91cm) in five states. Public transport remains disrupted as the working week is set to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan expats in the United Kingdom (UK), from both sides of the so-called Durand Line, staged a peaceful protest in front of the Pakistani High Commission in London. While strongly condemning the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hundreds of protestors in …