JALALABAD - Unknown gunmen dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials said on Wednesday. Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the team in March, confirmed that his father, Khobai Isakhel, had ...

LONDON : Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed on Wednesday.Prime Minister David Cameron had initially decided to discourage the interpreters from settling in Britain ...

KABUL : A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left eleven police officers dead, officials said Tuesday.The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they travelled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack.The ...

WASHINGTONThe Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $80 billion to cover the cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2014, a spokesman said Monday.The request issued Friday for $79.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 is slightly lower than the war funding of $87.2 billion for the current fiscal year, Pentagon ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF : A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who ...

KABUL  -  The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teachings.The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in ...

WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 per cent, reflecting his plans to wind down the US presence in that country.The president asked for $79.4 billion to fund so-called overseas contingency operations ...

  Ben Sheppard After scrambling up a steep mountainside in northAfghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock. “The gold is in here,” he says. Ali was one of generations of local men who used chisels and pickaxes to extract small ...

Thirty-five Taliban militants have been killed and 30 others wounded during operation across Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said Wednesday."Afghan police supported by the army and NATO-led coalition forces launched several cleanup operations in Kunduz, ...

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) remains NATO’s top mission in Afghanistan, the alliance secretary general said, while welcoming new Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Mark Breedlove.“On your watch, Afghan forces will be taking full responsibility for the security ...

KANDAHARA bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a ...

KABUL  Afghanistan's finance minister on Monday named in parliament several lawmakers whom he said were guilty of corruption, triggering wild cheering and applause during a televised session of the lower house.Corruption is one of the key challenges facing Afghanistan as it tries to establish ...

GOSHTAAfghan border police, enraged by recent clashes with their Pakistani counterparts, are pleading for more weapons, escalating the tension between the two sides.The fighting, in which an Afghan border policeman was killed last week, has caused a sharp deterioration in relations between the ...

KABUL: The US-led NATO force fighting Taliban insurgents inAfghanistansaid Wednesday it has launched an investigation into alleged misconduct by its soldiers. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement said that the probe would examine a clash on April 28 in the ...

  UN : With US-led coalition forces set to pull out ofAfghanistannext year,Pakistanhas underscored the role of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the transition process, and said that peace would help strengthen the war-torn country. "As the international ...

  KABUL :Afghanistan’s education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged “poisonings” that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses. Scores of girls’ schools over recent years have seen mysterious mass ...

BERLIN :-A German soldier was killed and another wounded in an attack by insurgents in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, the German army said. German special forces had been supporting an Afghan operation near the northern city of Baghlan when insurgents opened fire on the Afghan and Nato ...

  ISLAMABAD   National Logistics Cell (NLC) handed over the newly constructed building of Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty Block atBulkhUniversityat an impressive ceremony held atMazar-i-Sharif,Afghanistan. According to ISPR, the mega project of the university has been completed by NLC ...

  KANDAHAR   A roadside bomb killed fiveUStroops Saturday inAfghanistanand two other Nato soldiers were shot dead in an "insider attack", a week after the Taliban launched their spring offensive. The bomb killed five soldiers in a vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar, local police ...

The Taliban-linked militancy and violent incidents claimed the lives of nine soldiers from the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a single day on Saturday, turning the day into the bloodiest one since January this year for the alliance stationed in the conflict-ridden ...

KABUL In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist - a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.Halima, aged between 18 and 20 and a mother of two children, was killed for bringing ...

PULI ALAM - A Taliban bomb killed eight Afghan police Thursday in Logar province outside the capital Kabul, officials said, four days after the insurgents started their annual ‘spring offensive’.The members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force were on a joint patrol with Nato-led ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to lodge Pakistan’s strong protest on unprovoked firing by Afghan troops at Gursal post on Wednesday in which two Pakistani paramilitary men were injured.“Two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers got ...

    KABUL More than 400 Afghan women and girls jumped from their seats, screaming and even headbanging to rock and rap music at an all-female music festival in the capital of Kabul, which organisers say was the largest such event in the country’s history. It may also be one of the ...

KANDAHAR - A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan’s peace council on Wednesday, officials said, the latest setback to efforts to end more than 11 years of war.Shah Wali Khan, the head of the High Peace Council (HPC) in the key southern province of ...

KABUL : A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time. The plane came down inside the airfield boundaries and rescue crews rushed to the scene, ...

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airbase in Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven crew members on board, officials said.Rescue teams rushed to the scene after the plane smashed into the ground inside the boundaries of Bagram airfield, a key transport hub for ...

The CIA has delivered tens of millions of dollars in cash packed in suitcases and backpacks to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times reported Monday."We called it 'ghost money'," Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, told ...

KANDAHAR:Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid ...

KABUL - Afghanistan’s policewomen suffer sexual assault by male colleagues, often inside police stations, a rights group said Thursday, calling for women-only toilets and changing facilities to curb such abuse.Addressing the concerns of policewomen is necessary to address the ‘rampant ...