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Every year during the two Eid holidays, hundreds of men, women and children from all over Afghanistan line up outside Hamid Karzai’s house, hoping to meet the former Afghan president. For those six days on the Islamic calendar, Karzai is the embodiment of the elder statesman — the first modern …

AT-KABUL:  Two civilians died and two others were wounded Saturday after a gas cylinder went off inside a shop in Kabul city, police said. “At 2:00pm, a gas balloon exploded inside a shop in the Qowa-e-Markaz neighborhood Police District 2 of Kabul city in which two civilians died and two …

AT Monitoring Desk-We, the Heads of State and Government of the nations contributing to the Resolute Support mission, and the President and Chief Executive of the National Unity Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met today in Warsaw1 to reaffirm our mutual commitment to ensure long-term security and stability …

AT-KABUL: An Afghan expert on Saturday slammed protests by Pakistanis against Mahmoud Khan Achakzai’s recent remarks regarding Pakhtunkhwa, saying that Pakistan has no right to forcefully change Afghan nationality through occupation. According to reports, Pakistan Muslim League-Q’s senior leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and other Pak-loyalty …

AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga of parliament on Saturday expressed deep concerns over the Daesh militants’ threats in Nangarhar, Kunar and Nooristan provinces, calling on the security officials to chalk out necessary plans for rooting out of the militants. Lawmakers claimed that Daesh was a great security threat in the eastern …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The number of Local Police casualties fell this year by 40 percent, Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. “Although war was not decreased, but the local police casualties declined in the past four months of current year, said an interior ministry official Salem Ehsas. “The casualties of …

Large number of civilians were killed and injured during the month of Ramadan, Karzai said AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai in an addressing to the people on the occasion of the Eid festival has called the ongoing war in the country “an imposed war by the aliens”, in which Afghans …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that a terror plot thwarted in southeastern Paktika province. Intelligence operatives succeeded to arrest a suicide bomber named Abdulwali through special crackdown in Urgon district of Paktika, it said in a stsatement. The suicide bomber was arrested actually with explosives …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani visited the inured policemen of the recent suicide attacks in Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital and ordered the ministry of public health to shift those injured policemen whom their treatment is impossible inside the country to abroad. Presidential officials said in a statement that Ghani asked …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan government will call on Warsaw summit to bring pressure on Pakistan to take right decision in anti-terror war in the country. The upcoming NATO summit is to be held in early July in Warsaw. “It will be impossible not to point at Pakistan’s role when you …