KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” condemned Thursday’s attack on the civilians in the southern province of Helmand. A suicide bomber detonated his car filled with explosives just outside the branch of the New Kabul Bank at around 12:00pm in ...
Read More »Afghanistan confirmed as full members by the International cricket council
KABUL: The Afghanistan national cricket team has been confirmed as the full members by the International cricket council. “Afghanistan Cricket Board and Cricket Ireland have been confirmed as Full Members of the International Cricket Council after a unanimous vote at the ICC Full ...
Read More »At least 34 killed as car bomb hits bank in Southern Afghanistan
KABUL: Thirty-four people have been killed and 58 others wounded in a car bomb outside a bank in the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s office said. Local officials said the bomb was detonated on June 22 outside the ...
Read More »Jingoism in Pakistan
Jingoism is an extreme and aggressive patriotism. Its a pride in anything that belongs to one’s own state and hatred against anything foreign. This is exactly that is going on between India and Pakistan. Extreme hatred between the two is ...
Read More »Pakistan affecting Afghanistan stability: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Tuesday said Pakistan was ‘the most influential’ external actor affecting Afghan stability and the military alliance’s mission. “Pakistan views the outcome of Afghanistan to be in its vital national interest and thus remains driven by its India-centric regional policy ...
Read More »Afghan govt says won’t allow Pakistan to fence the Durand Line
The people and the governments of Afghanistan had never accepted the Durand Line as an international border since it was drawn in 1893: Afghanistan KABUL: The Afghan government on Wednesday said it would not allow Pakistan to fence the Durand Line and would ...
Read More »Refurbishment of 53 Blackhawks for the Afghan troops has commenced: Pentagon
KABUL: The United States Department of Defense has said the refurbishment work of 53 UH-60 or Blackhawk helicopters for the Afghan security forces has commenced. According to a new Pentagon report on Afghanistan “Under the ANDSF Road Map, the SMW ...
Read More »China considers Afghanistan’s position “very important” for Silk Road
KABUL: China is a supporter to the reconstruction and development of new Afghanistan, and would always stand beside the country, Chinese foreign ministry said. “Since longtime, China has been providing ground assistant to Afghanistan—built some hospitals, schools and other infrastructures, ...
Read More »Pakistan: The undeclared Jihad factory
The recent ghastly terror attacks in Kabul and London makes me wonder whether such acts of violence are fast becoming the new normal in our lives. Over the last few years, we, as citizens of this world, have grieved for ...
Read More »Diminishing an enlightened legacy
ANP has owned Mashal Khan and has stood up to the extremists’ violent narrative Academia and political analysts throughout the world use framework of hegemony constructed by Antonio Gramsci and analysis of the culture of silence by Paulo Frere to ...
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