KABUL and vowed to provide security for investors. Currently on a four-day visit to Beijing, his first foreign trip, Ghani met China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang, assuring the Chinese entrepreneurs of investment security and facilities. Ghani and Li are scheduled…
An Afghan National Army (ANA) plane ran into a wall in central Uruzgan province on Sunday evening, killing one person and injuring eight others, an official said. The incident occurred in Gizab district where the ANA aircraft went…
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…
WASHINGTON (PAN. “India is committed to supporting the democratic forces in Afghanistan. The nascent Afghan security forces -- the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police -- the combined strength of which has reached nearly 350,000, have shown encouraging combat…
WASHINGTON (PAN, India and the US would be held in New Delhi on February 19, the State Department announced on Friday. “The United States, India and Afghanistan all share a common vision for a strong, peaceful and prosperous region and…
KABUL may take place outside the country through official processes, including creation of the rebel movement's office in Qatar, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. A statement from the ministry rejected as incorrect media reports that Kabul supported consultative…
KABUL-led combat troops are scheduled to leave the country, the French foreign minister said on Sunday. President Hamid Karzai had accorded approval to the talks on the future of his country, from where the last batch of French troops withdrew…
CHAGHCHRAN (PAN province, officials said on Thursday. Mullah Abdul Majeeb, who led the 10-member rebel group, surrendered to security officials in the district, Lt. Col. Gul Ahmad, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The surrendering men also turned…
KABUL talks and opposition to a federal system in the country. A large number of party activists, representing different provinces held a gathering under the leadership of Anwarul Haq Ahadi, the Minister of Commerce and Industries, in Kabul. Ahadi read…
KABUL. "Frankly, a peace process led by foreigners, whoever they might be, would simply not deliver the sort of peace which Afghanistan needs, it has to be Afghan to Afghan," the NATO senior civilian representative said. In an interview with…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN fighters who recently joined the peace process in northern Baghlan province. Public Works Director Haji Mohammad said 100 former fighters had already been tasked with maintenance of Baghlan roads. Each one was given 5,000 afghanis ($100) during the…
HERAT CITY (PAN): A 12-member rebel group joined the peace process in western Herat province, the provincial high peace committee said on Sunday. Led by Mullah Ghullam Sarwar, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said the fighters voiced their support for…
GHAZNI (PAN in southern Ghazni province said that hundreds of militants had tried to join the peace process but could not be accommodated due to lack of resources. Several Taliban commanders, along with their fighters, have sought peace from the…
WASHINGTON (PAN told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that it would be difficult to achieve peace inside the country unless terrorist safe havens across the border are eliminated. Addressing a special session of the Security Council on Afghanistan, the…
KABUL): Afghan and Pakistani officials gathered yesterday to discuss details of the Afghan peace and reconciliation process. The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul hosted the inaugural meeting of the Working Level of the Afghanistan Joint Commission for Peace,…
KABUL): Afghan and Pakistani officials gathered yesterday to discuss details of the Afghan peace and reconciliation process. The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul hosted the inaugural meeting of the Working Level of the Afghanistan Joint Commission for Peace,…
KABUL. The impact of that decision on the future of security in Afghanistan) spokesman Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz at a press conference. It would not effect the mission of the ISAF in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban, he said.…
KABUL. The impact of that decision on the future of security in Afghanistan) spokesman Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz at a press conference. It would not effect the mission of the ISAF in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban, he said.…
KABUL, but added the assessment was very premature. UScommandos shot dead the Al Qaeda leader during a nigh time raid on his compound in the town of Abbottabad, a garrison area near Pakistan's most wanted individual. Addressing a forum in…
KABUL (HIA), led by former prime minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar, on Thursday denied joining the government's peace and reconciliation campaign. A day earlier, a media report quoted an unnamed member of the council as saying that the HIA chief would renounce…
