US president Barack Obama on Thursday announced he would keep 9,800 American troops in Afghanistan activities. Speaking at a White House press conference, the president said he had also decided to keep 5,500 troops in Kabul and a…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said it was on his insistence that his US counterpart Barack Obama had written him the latest letter regarding the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between the two nations. Referring to Karzai’s concerns about civilian…
WASHINGTON (PAN and the reconciliation process, when they will be meeting on Wednesday at the White House, senior US officials said Friday. Sharif, who was voted back to power early this year, departed for Washington and would arrive here on…
WASHINGTON (PAN Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House on Friday. “The president looks forward to discussing global and regional security concerns with the secretary general, to include ending the war in Afghanistan while building an enduring partnership…
WASHINGTON(PAN office, the progress made in reconciliation and security transition, the White House said. This was the first phone call between the two leaders after the recent Kabul visits of the Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the Defense Secretary,…
WASHINGTON (PAN): US President Barack Obama would meet his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in early January to discuss the future presence of American troops in the country after the withdrawal of foreign forces in 2014, an official said on Friday.…
WASHINGTON (PAN after 2014, when security transition to Afghan forces is scheduled to complete, the White House said on Monday. “He (Obama) has not (decided),” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters, when asked about media reports on the…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Three policemen were killed in a suicide attack on their check-post in southern Kandahar province on Thursday morning, officials said. The incident happened at around 5am when a bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up in the…
WASHINGTON (PAN): President Hamid Karzai and his US counterpart Barack Obama agreed to launch the US-Afghan Bilateral Commission and start negotiations on a bilateral security agreement. The agreement between the two leaders was reached during a video conference call,…
WASHINGTON (PAN. “Karzai expressed condolences for the tragic loss of American life and the presidents discussed the importance of working together to help ensure that the circumstances that led to the violence in Libya and Egypt do not pose a…
KABUL’s 93rd independence anniversary, the Presidential Palace in Kabul said. On behalf of the Americans, Obama conveyed his most sincere congratulations to Karzai on Afghanistan’s Independence Day, a statement from Karzai’s office said. Hailing the strategic cooperation pact between the…
WASHINGTON (PAN Summit in Chicago, a top presidential aide said on Thursday. At the same time, officials noted, no bilateral talks were scheduled between Obama and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, who would be attending the summit at the…
WASHINGTON (PAN): US President Barack Obama on Saturday said that the goal of defeating Al Qaeda and denying it the chance to rebuild was within reach. “We have broken Al Qaeda’s momentum. We’ve built strong Afghan security forces,” Obama said…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said the signing of the strategic pact with the US had opened a new chapter in bilateral relations. In a meeting with interior ministry officials at the Presidential Palace, Karzai said Afghanistan was as…
WASHINGTON (PAN desecration incident, US President Barack Obama remains focused on his goal of disrupting, dismantling and defeating Al Qaeda and its allies in this country, a top presidential aide said Monday. “The fact is that the everything that we…
WASHINGTON (PAN. During the meeting, Obama received an update on the building of capable Afghan security forces, America’s support for an Afghan-led reconciliation process and its efforts to build a long-term strategic partnership between the US and Afghanistan, the White…
WASHINGTON (PAN, the White House said on Monday. “The President and the Secretary General discussed the important progress made by the NATO-led ISAF mission in Afghanistan, and how the Chicago Summit might shape the next major phase of transition in…
KABUL. Speaking at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Centre, Kissinger said: "I have no objection in principle to negotiating with the Taliban, but for the purpose of ending the war, it's the wrong sequence of events." The first peace parleys…
WASHINGTON, DC (PAN, US President Barack Obama said Wednesday. American commandoes killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden some three months ago at his safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. “In Afghanistan, we’ve got al Qaeda on the run and we…
WASHINGTON, DC (PAN. “As Ramadan begins, Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world. Ramadan is a festive time that is anticipated for months by Muslims everywhere,”…
