Hakim Basharat

KABUL after the formal withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014. Karzai last week said Afghanistan was ready to let the United

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has written a letter to his US counterpart Barack Obama, seeking America’s help in retaking nearly a dozen border security posts

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Friday ordered a thoroughgoing investigation into a deadly road crash on the Kandahar-Helmand highway. Javed Faisal, the Kandahar governor’s spokesman,

 GHAZNI CIT (PAN): One Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a bomb blast in southern Ghazni province on

MAIDAN WARDAK (PAN and Hazara tribes in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said. Despite efforts at the governmental level, the 30-year dispute between the

KABUL): The visiting Turkish defence minister says his country has executed 164 development projects in the central province of Maidan Wardak. Ankara would continue to

 KABUL): The US military would soon transfer all affairs of the Bagram detention facility to Afghan authorities, President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman said on Saturday.

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai has been invited by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani to talks on the Afghan-led peace process, a presidential

KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday hailed American special forces’ willingness to withdraw from central Maidan Wardak province. The US move toward troop pullout from

KABUL): An insurgent commander was killed and one his associates wounded when a roadside bomb they were planting went off prematurely in the central Maidan

 KABUL Council on Saturday asked US forces to transfer the Bagram detention centre to full Afghan control and leave the central province of Maidan Wardak

KABUL): Two Pakistani militants were killed and as many others were wounded during a clash with US troops in the central province of Maidan Wardak,