State news agency Xinhua reported on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Afghanistan’s “relevant parties” to exterminate terrorism and offered to provide additional assistance to the war-torn nation. Afghanistan and China both share a land border, and the Taliban has formed a new government in Afghanistan. As U.S.-led foreign soldiers concluded their 20-year presence […]
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: After a surge in violence in the past few weeks in war-torn Afghanistan; the Afghan Taliban on Monday announced a three-day ceasefire across the country aimed at enabling the Afghan people to celebrate Eidul Fitr in a peaceful environment. President Ashraf Ghani responded positively to the Taliban ceasefire and ordered his forces to maintain […]
A bombing and a shooting attack in Kabul killed at least three people, including a deputy provincial governor, while a deputy provincial council chief was killed in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said. The attacks are the latest in relentless violence in Afghanistan even as the Taliban and Afghan government negotiators hold talks in Qatar, […]
A delegation from the Taliban’s Qatar-based political office, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar; arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday on a three-day visit. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed the Taliban delegation at the Foreign Office, where he held a meeting with the members. Speaking to the media after the talks; the minister reiterated Pakistan’s […]
The Global Terrorism Index [GTI] 2020 ranks Pakistan as 7th in the world on a list of countries most affected by terrorism in 2019. According to the IEP annual report, Afghanistan remained the worst-affected country by terrorism, while Pakistan is ranked seventh. Seven of the top-10 affected nations come from the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The […]
At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, marking the latest big attack in a wave of violence sweeping the Afghan capital. The salvo slammed into various parts of central and north Kabul — including in and around the heavily fortified Green Zone that […]
Fourteen civilians, including women and children, were killed on Tuesday by a roadside bomb in central Afghanistan, officials said. Whereas the violence continues despite peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, and also between the Qatar govt. Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed a minimum of 14 civilians within the central […]
