KABUL, ex-president Hamid Karzai called for the revival of the reconciliation process. On Saturday, President Ashraf Ghani said the government’s ceasefire with the Taliban had ended, He ordered the security forces to resume offensives across the country. After Ghani’s announcement,…
KABUL (HIA), at his residence and congratulated him on Eid, a statement from Presidential Palace said on Monday. Hekmatyar thanked President Ghani for visiting him at his residence for Eid greeting and hailed his efforts for ceasefire. Hekmatyar said peace…
KABUL to honour the step, according to a statement on Friday. Days after a historic fatwa from top Afghan clerics against the ongoing conflict in the country, President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced a ceasefire. The government would observe the truce from…
Senior Pakistani and Afghan officials have pledged to make a fresh start in their relations, marred by tensions and allegations. The pledge comes hard on the heels of the Afghanistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) being…
KABUL and India are faced with common challenges, including extremism and terrorism. Both nations were fed up with their common neighbour, the ex-president said in an interview published on Wednesday. He used the euphemism of the common neighbour for Pakistan…
KABUL’s territorial integrity. On Wednesday, Pakistani helicopters crossed the Durand Line in violation of Afghanistan’s air-space and dropped bombs in the Dangam district. In a statement from his office, Karzai denounced the raid as an open violation of international law.…
KABUL to ramp up cooperation on counterterrorism measures. In a tweet, Karzai hailed Trump’s post on Pakistan's double-dealing on the scourge of terrorism over the past 15 years. The ex-president called Trump’s tweet a vindication that the war on terror was…
Former President Hamid Karzai on Saturday strongly condemned the civilian killings in Friday’s Nangarhar airstrike, asking the US to stop killing Afghans under the pretext of being insurgents. On Friday, according to local residents and officials, the US…
KABUL leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and former president Hamid Karzai on Saturday met in Kabul and both the leaders stressed intra-Afghan dialogue to achieve peace in the country. Karzai’s advisor Shahzada Massoud told Pajhwok Afghan News that Hekmatyar and other members…
Ex-president Hamid Karzai and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah will soon visit Islamabad and the process of dialogue will be revived, hopes the National Assembly speaker. Ayaz Sadiq, who headed a parliamentary delegation to Kabul.” There was a…
KABUL to join peace talks with Afghan government. In a meeting in Moscow late on Monday, Karzai and Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the current security situation in Afghanistan and the region. Karzai hailed Russia’s cooperation with the peace…
Former president Hamid Karzai, excoriating the dropping of the mother of all bombs in eastern Nangarhar province, has asked the Trump administration to be sincere toward the Afghans. In an interview aired on Monday, he denounced the use…
KABUL’s sovereignty and insulted honor of Afghans by dropping the GBU-43/B, the heaviest non-nuclear bomb, in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province. Talking to a press conference about the Durand Line of the bombarded area where people could no longer…
KABUL instead of taking military actions. In his message to the nation in connection with the new solar year.” He said all these disorders occurred in the face of a wide political and military presence of the US and its…
KABUL were victim of their country’s wrong policies. The Pakistani forces fired rockets and mortars into Kunar and Nangarhar province yesterday and resumed the firing on Saturday morning after a nightlong lull, local officials said. Two civilians were killed, several…
KABUL’s future in Moscow as beneficial. The talks involving representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India and Russia held in Moscow on Wednesday. The meeting discussed cooperation of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries with the Afghan government in its efforts for peace and…
KABUL’s own but its victims were Afghans, a statement from Karzai’s office said on Sunday. Karzai, who developed strong differences with the US in his last months of presidency, strongly condemned suicide attack in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand,…
KABUL. Karzai was addressing a gathering regarding the Durand Line in Kabul. The former president said the Durand Line had been imposed by then imperialistic forces on Afghans. “When the line was imposed on us, Pakistan was not created. Afghanistan…
KABUL’s leadership return would help strengthen peace in the country. A statement from Karzai’s office said HIA delegation head Mohammad Amin Karim met with the former president at his office on Tuesday. The HIA delegation praised Karzai’s efforts for peace…
KABUL has been imposed on the Afghans and is being fought in the interests of others. A statement from Karzai’s office said it was repeatedly proved that the current hardships had been imposed on Afghans who were being sacrificed for…
KABUL’s Punjab province. At least 72 people were killed and 300 others wounded in the suicide bombing that took place in crowded Gulshan-i-Iqbal park on Sunday evening. The bombing, claimed by the Jamaatul Ahrar group of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan…
Former president Hamid Karzai on Monday left for China to attend a conference on the Afghan peace process, his office said. Karzai’s spokesman Yousuf Sahar told Pajhwok Afghan News the former president was formally invited by the Shanghai…
KABUL despite 14 years of combat. Karzai told Kremlin-backed Russia Today or RT TV channel in an interview that that there was more radicalism in Afghanistan and in the whole region than there had been ever before. “That is why…
KABUL, former president Hamid Karzai said he was concerned about the hundreds of Afghans seeking asylum in European countries. Karzai, who was addressing a ceremony marking the 14th death anniversary of the national hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Kabul said…
