Afghan Taekwondo players have won two gold and two bronze medals in an open completion held in South Korea on Tuesday, officials said. Officials of the Afghan Taekwondo Federation said 2,660 players from over 60 countries participated in…
KABUL’s ceasefire announcement and hoped the truce would be extended beyond Eidul Fitr days. The Taliban on Saturday announced a three-day ceasefire with the Afghan security forces for Eidul Fitr. However, the insurgents vowed to continue targeting foreign troops. The…
Thousands of illegal Afghans with no grounds for asylum will cost Sweden $350 million over the next three years, a Russian news service reports. A Swedish parliament’s decision recently allowed 9,000 Afghans to stay in the Scandinavian country…
KABUL in the ongoing T20 series in India. Nazmul Hassan, in an interview after the second consecutive route of the Tigers, blasted players for exploiting what he called a "free environment in the dressing room" in the absence of a…
Seven Afghans, including three children, have drowned while trying to cross into Greece, a news report said on Tuesday. More than a dozen people from the sinking boat, the Associated Press quoted from Turkey's coast guard as saying.…
Hundreds of illegal Afghan migrants have been deported from the Aegean region of Turkey, a media report said on Sunday. Around 324 undocumented Afghans, detained in the Aegean province of İzmir, have been sent back to their country, the…
KABUL since 2001 to over eight million. IOM said on Thursday reintegration in Afghan society was difficult for returnees, with the country still mired in conflict and faced with high levels of internal displacement, limited services and few jobs. The…
KABUL, according to a statement from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Tuesday. “As the country marks the New Year and the beginning of spring at a time of renewal and celebration, on occasion for promoting the values…
KABUL Cup qualifying campaign in Zimbabwe today (Sunday), with both sides looking determined to win. On the eve of the qualifier for next year's ICC Cricket World Cup, which will be played in England, Afghanistan chief coach Phil Simmons sounded…
At least 14 illegal Afghan citizens have been deported to their homeland from Germany, a media report said on Wednesday. The Afghan nationals were sent back to Kabul from Munich on Tuesday night, Deutsche Welle reported. The deportations…
KABUL will continue to stand with Afghans in the fight against terrorism and their struggle to build peace and reconciliation in their country, the secretary-general says. The alliance stood in sympathy and solidarity with Afghanistan and paid tribute to the…
KABUL will continue to stand with Afghans in the fight against terrorism and their struggle to build peace and reconciliation in their country, the secretary-general says. The alliance stood in sympathy and solidarity with Afghanistan and paid tribute to the…
Unregistered Afghans have urged the Pakistan government to press ahead with its programme for their voluntary repatriation to the war-torn country. While spurning a month-long deadline set for their return, the Afghan Refugees Executive Council chief warned of…
KABUL embassy in Kabul. “All the visa applicants are informed that it is henceforth mandatory for all Afghan nationals seeking Pakistani visa to produce a hospital certificate on account that he/she is polio-free. “No visa applicant will be entertained without…
The German government is expected to deport dozens of Afghans asylum-seekers on Wednesday (tomorrow), a British newspaper reported on Tuesday. The would-be deportees, numbering 78, include a 26-year-old who fears he will be killed on return to his…
Six Afghan and Pakistani men, who were detained in 2015 after crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, have been cleared of links to the Islamic State militant group. Arrested by US Border Patrol, the detainees were investigated by the…
The government of Pakistan is yet to start issuing cards to about 370,000 Afghan citizens who were recently registered across the country. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has not even printed the cards for the documented…
President Ashraf Ghani during a meeting with Sunni and Shiite scholars has urged them to expose real intention of terrorists in their sermons and promote religious harmony. The president, who met the religious scholars at the Presidential Palace…
KABUL. Some people called the new strategy as ‘helpful’ but others believed it was against the country’s interests and would prolong the conflict. Announcing his much-awaited strategy on Afghanistan, President Trump ruled out a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan and asked…
KABUL. Shan Pacha Shinwari, an organiser of the rally, told Pajhwok Afghan News the demonstration held in front of European Parliament was attended by dozens of Afghans. He said a number of Afghans came from other European countries to Brussels…
The Afghan Consulate General in Istanbul has said it has tasked a committee with analyzing Sunday’s night incident in which a group of people attacked an Afghan migrant. The incident in Istanbul’s Fatih district on May 15 took…
The governor of northern Balkh province, Atta Mohammad Noor, on Tuesday said the Afghans were trapped between two atrocities -- the Taliban and Daesh. Addressing a huge gathering in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, Noor claimed the Taliban took…
More than a dozen US lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill to allow more applicants this year into the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program. The legislation in the US House of Representatives is aimed to allocate additional 2,500…
KABUL’s southwestern Baluchistan province, a security official said on Tuesday. Police official Aslam Bokhari said the truck was about to unload sand when the accident happened. The make-shift house belonged to Afghan refugee Sher Mohammad. Mohammad himself escaped unhurt but…
