Afghanistan's attorney general has suspended head of the country's football federation, Keramuddin Karim, and five members of the body after allegations of sexual abuse of female footballers.
The United States should continue its military presence in Afghanistan if it wishes to prevent future attacks similar to what happened on September 11, 2001, the top US military officer has warned.
The Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad visited Kabul on Thursday where met with President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that he is happy that the United States agreed with his party’s stance that there cannot be a military solution to the Afghan war.
While addressing a federal cabinet meeting, the premier spoke about his meeting with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and said, “...
The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission on Thursday announced that the results of voting at all polling stations in October parliamentary elections have been invalidated.
Despite having 100,000 troops on ground in Afghanistan in 2010, and expending enormous money and resources, the U.S. has not been able to win the war in Afghanistan. Why? In my opinion, the U.S. failed to engage in effective combat beyond the Durand Line, where terrorist hideouts were located and terrorists were operating inside Afghanistan.
McKenzie told lawmakers that he does not see much of a change in the behavior of Pakistan towards Afghanistan or taking strong actions against terrorist groups.
US special representative for reconciliation in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has again decided to skip India during his fortnight travel to the region for advancing peace talks in the landlocked country.
Handing over affairs of certain provinces to Taliban could be meant disintegration of Afghanistan, which might be intolerable for each and every citizen of this war devastated country.
According to partial data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), at least 822 people have died in 64 suicide attacks across Afghanistan in the current year (data till November 30, 2018). There were 613 fatalities in 52 such attacks through 2017; and 503 fatalities in 43 incidents in 2016.
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday (today), said US State Department’s press release.
The cost of NATO's presence in Afghanistan – financial and human cost - is high, but it is not higher than the cost of leaving, chief of the alliance said Monday.
US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, asking his help to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, Pakistan media reported Monday.
The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad will travel to Afghanistan and seven other countries in support of Afghan peace.
