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…
MOSCOW/NEW DELHI (PAN government's efforts to hold dialogue with the armed opposition forces if the guerrillas respected the Afghan Constitution. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met in Moscow for the 14th India-Russia Annual Summit,…
KABUL-led forces,” reports said on Tuesday. Asia-Plus – Russian news website Russkaya Planeta (Russian Planet) reported that the Monday’s meeting discussed military threat, intensification of drug trafficking and illegal migration. Speaking at the meeting, Kyrgyz defense minister and current CSTO…
KABUL may grow after international coalition forces pull out and the threat of terrorism and religious extremism could increase. GRU chief Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said in Moscow the situation in Afghanistan posed a “serious challenge to international stability”. “A…
KABUL would be the main topic during its chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council in March. The Russian foreign ministry underlined the need for peace in Afghanistan hours before the 15-member council began an open meeting on the situation…
KABUL): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday strongly rejected as "entirely baseless" that Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) officers had taken part in an operation that led to the seizure of 21 tonnes of narcotics in eastern Nangarhar…
KABUL producing and sending drugs to Russia. "Most of these labs are located in northern Afghanistan, particularly in the Badakhshan province," Ivanov told RIA Novosti, insisting the amount of heroin trafficked from Afghanistan to Russia had not diminished over the…
KABUL 33 years ago, has been found alive in the Shindand district of western Afghanistan, a Russian news agency reported on Wednesday. Bakhretdin Khakimov, an ethnic Uzbek from Samarkand, has changed his name to Sheikh Abdullah, according to a RIA…
KABUL." "This is my answer to those who wonder why we are not fighting for our positions," Lavrov told a Russian television's "Sunday Night with Solovyov" programme. "We will not be fighting for our positions…and creating 'another Afghanistan' for ourselves.…
BRUSSELS (PAN on the first day of the NATO foreign ministers meeting that starts on Tuesday. Issues touching on the prevention of narcotic trafficking via Russia, counterterrorism efforts, and supply route for NATO troops through Russia and procurement of helicopters…
KABUL, asking the international community to boost the fighting ability of Afghan forces. “Our fundamental position is that the foreign military presence in this country must be put to an end sooner or later,” the Russian embassy in Kabul said…
KABUL): The Ministry of Commerce and Industries on Wednesday said that 5,000 tonnes of petrol purchased from Russia would reach Kabul in a month and the imports would help control soaring prices. A contract on fuel imports from Russia was…
KABUL. A press release issued from the official representative of Russian Counternarcotics Agency to Afghanistan said the reports were baseless, as Russia had never conducted any operation with or without the support of any third country inside sovereign Afghanistan in…
KABUL during a meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Friday said his country supported the peace process led and driven by Afghans. Weeks ago, the Taliban agreed to have a political bureau in Doha for entering a dialogue…
KABUL promised on Saturday. Zamir Kabulove held out the promise at a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Presidential Palace said in a statement. They also discussed preparations for the upcoming Istanbul conference and stressed joint regional cooperation efforts,…
KABUL's demand for the observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), President Hamid Karzai's office said on Thursday. Karzai and his Russian counterpart met on Wednesday in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on the sidelines of the 10th SCO…
KABUL's demand for the observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), President Hamid Karzai's office said on Thursday. Karzai and his Russian counterpart met on Wednesday in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on the sidelines of the 10th SCO…
