WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The White House Friday congratulated the Afghan cricket team on winning its first ever match in the on-going World Cup Cricket

WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): US President Barack Obama would host his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah at the White House on

KABUL (Pajhwok): The cabinet announced a three-day national mourning to express solidarity with families who lost their beloved ones to avalanches in several parts of

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Three persons were killed and 13 others wounded when the convoy of Wolesi Jirga member Faridoon Momand came under suicide attack in Jalalabad

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Taliban burned down completely in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, the district police chief said. Eng. Maj. Lutfullah Kamran claimed militants

KABUL (Pajhwok): The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program is offering rewards for information on two associates of the extremist group Hezb-e Islami

NILI (Pajhwok): Eight persons were killed and four others wounded in a traffic accident in central Daikundi province on Friday, a district administrative chief said.

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): The government has released three detained female relatives of Taliban militants in an exchange for as many kidnapped NGO workers in northern Faryab

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Two Taliban were killed and as many wounded in southeastern Paktika province when their own missile exploded prematurely, the governor’s spokesman said Friday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Thirty dead bodies buried under snow avalanches have been so far retrieved in the Paryan and Dara districts of central Panjsher province, acting

KABUL was ready to extend “all possible relief assistance to the victims of natural disaster.” A statement from the prime minister’s house said that the

KABUL (Pajhwok): One of the severed cables importing electricity to capital Kabul from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan would be reconnected over the next three days on