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PESHAWAR – Gunmen have killed a senior and influential Afghan Taliban commander near Peshawar, a Taliban leader and a family member said on Sunday. The gunmen sprayed bullets at Commander Abdul Samad Mullah Toor when he was offering morning prayers at a mosque in Muslim City area near Tarnab, a …

KABUL – An armored Land Cruiser was targeted in an early morning IED explosion in Kabul’s PD4 area in yet another targeted attack. This time there were no casualties reported, police confirmed. The incident happened at around 7.35am in Parwan-e-Do area of Kabul. However it is not known who the …

CHARIKAR – Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a religious scholar in central Parwan province, an official said on Monday. Mohammad Sadiq Hashimi, the Parwan crime branch chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Maulvi Abdul Raqeeb was killed while heading to Syedkhel district from Jabal-us-Saraj. He was gunned down by unknown …

KABUL – Pakistani foreign minister has said that the new US administration should play an active role in the ongoing Afghan peace process and the opportunity made available for ending the Afghan crisis should not be missed. Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the remarks during his interview with …

KABUL – The economic impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most populous region is threatening to further undermine efforts to improve diets and nutrition of nearly two billion people in Asia and the Pacific who were already unable to afford healthy diets prior to the pandemic, says a new report …

PUL-E-KHUMRI/ZARANJ – At least eight members of the Afghan forces were killed in Taliban attacks in Nimroz and Baghlan province on Thursday evening, sources and officials said. Six police force members were killed in a Taliban attack on their outpost in Khashrod district in the south-western province of Nimroz on …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmad Khan called on Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser in Parliament House here on Thursday. According to a press release of the National Assembly Secretariat enhancing parliamentary and bilateral relations between Islamabad and Kabul came under discussion. The Speaker while talking to the …

KABUL – Wahid Omar, presidential adviser, on Wednesday said that the reasons given by parliament for rejecting the draft budget plan are not legitimate, stating that the government and the parliament should continue their discussions to finalize the budget plan. However, lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament have threatened to approve the …

QALA-E-NAU – At least two policemen were killed and another was wounded in a blast in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, a local official said on Thursday. A police vehicle struck a roadside mine in Moqur district, said Khan Jan Zafar, a member of the provincial council. However, …

HERAT CITY – President Ashraf Ghani at his visit on Thursday renamed Herat Airport after Khwaja Abdullah Ansari. Ansari was a poet and Muslim Sufi saint who lived in the 11th century in Herat province. He was also known as “Sage of Herat” and was well known for his poems …