NEW DELHI - Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains. He also ruled out deployment of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan.Karzai said: “We have a wish list that ...

NEW DELHIAfghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian leaders Tuesday, hoping to secure more military aid as he looks to beef up his security forces after international troops pull out next year.An Indian foreign ministry source confirmed that Karzai had held talks late Tuesday with Prime ...

NEW DELHI : Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in India on Monday on a two-day visit during which he is expected to seek greater military aid from the government in New Delhi, officials said.The Afghan leader landed in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh for a private function and will reach ...

kabul  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan’s disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul’s overtures to New Delhi are likely ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a ...

Some key personalities of Saudi royal family have greeted Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in the May 11 elections.Sources said that Saudi personalities congratulating Nawaz Sharif have expressed their well wishes for him and prayed for his successes and prosperity of Pakistan. Afghan President ...

KABULAfghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he could allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country as part of negotiations over a long-term security pact with Washington.After more than 11 years of US-led military intervention in Afghanistan, the two countries are ...

With only one and a half year left in the scheduled pull out of the US and Nato troops from Afghanistan, there is no concrete evidence available to suggest that the Afghan government is ready for the switch over and that its newly established forces had acquired the capability to ensure peace and ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he could allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country as part of negotiations over a long-term security pact with Washington.After more than 11 years of US-led military intervention in Afghanistan, the two countries are ...

kabul - Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Saturday said the Afghan government would never recognised Durand Line as the international border between the two countries.He said that the government of Pakistan was trying to force Afghanistan to accept Durand Line as the formal border by creating issues ...

KABULAfghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday confirmed that his government received money from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), following reports of cash being handed over in suitcases and backpacks.“Yes, the NSC of Afghanistan has received money from CIA in the past 10 years. The ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has admitted that his office received secret payments from the United States.He was responding to a New York Times report that alleged the CIA sent suitcases stuffed with cash to the president's office on regular basis.In a statement‚ Karzai said that the money ...

  KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a crackdown on ‘un-Islamic and obscene’ televisions shows in response to lobbying by the country’s religious council, an official said Wednesday. Karzai told the culture ministry to block programmes “which are vulgar, ...

President Hamid Karzai on Saturday said foreign troops violated his decree barring airstrikes in residential areas when they carried out an air raid in eastern Kunar province on April 6.Karzai who met members of a team he had appointed to investigate the airstrike in Shigal district was told 17 ...

KABUL  - US Secretary of State John Kerry held a second round of talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Tuesday after the two put on a public show of unity in a bid to repair damaged ties.Kerry visited Afghanistan as the United States ceded to a key long-standing demand of Karzai ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will fly to Qatar within days to discuss peace with the Taliban and open the political office for the group, Karzai's office said Sunday.Karzai will also use the visit to further Afghanistan-Qatar relations and meet the country's officials, Karzai's spokesman Aimal ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed with the U.S. new proposal to hand over the Bagram prison to Afghan government within week, a statement released by Presidential Palace here said."In a telephone conversation with President Karzai, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asked for a week time for ...

As he contemplates retirement next year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appears to have one over-riding ambition -- to ensure that his people do not remember him as a puppet of the United States.Karzai will stand down after elections in April 2014, and his final year in office promises to be ...

President Hamid Karzai on Thursday welcomed the announcement that Britain will pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan next year, saying his country was ready to take over security responsibilities.British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said that he will withdraw almost half of the ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday, appealing for increased investment in his war-torn country.In October last year India and Afghanistan signed a "strategic partnership" aimed at deepening security and economic links, with ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he hoped the shooting of a Pakistani schoolgirl by the Taliban would convince Islamabad that using extremism as a tool against others was not in its interest.Karzai regularly accuses Pakistan of supporting Taliban Islamist insurgents trying to topple his ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was moved to a safe area and his palace went into lockdown as Kabul was hit by a wave of attacks including a failed attempt to target one of his deputies on Sunday, officials said.The embattled president was discussing the budget with a group of lawmakers when ...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai once again repeated his call for halting night raid operations by NATO-led forces in the militancy-plagued country. "We are working to stop the night raid operations," President Karzai said in his speech at a graduation ceremony in the National Military Academy ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that foreign soldiers should be pulled out of Afghanistan's remote areas and the date for the security handover should be brought forward. Karzai said the Nato-led mission needed to pull back its troops to the larger ...

Hopes that the US can fix conditions for a long-term military presence in Afghanistan before an unofficial May deadline are fading because Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, is not prepared to compromise on two demands that have stalled negotiations for months. Washington and its allies want to ...

Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omer on Saturday rejected calls for peace talks with Afghan government led by President Hamid Karzai saying that it would be a betrayal with the sacrifices of martyrs.According to the reports, Omer said that the Taliban would not indulge in any peace talks ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday telephoned Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and thanked Pakistan for hosting trilateral summit of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Afghan president said his meetings with Pakistani politicians remained productive. Karzai also took Pakistani ...

Chief of his own faction of Jammiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-S), Maulana Samiul Haq has said that he is ready to play role for initiating dialogues process between Taliban and Afghan government.Talking to a foreign news agency on Sunday, Maulana Samiul Haq said that during his meeting with Hamid Karzai, ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday called on President Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif at Punjab House, Islamabad. Both the leaders discussed matters related to Afghan trade, border issues and regional situation. Earlier today, the Afghan president participated in ...

NEW YORK - The United States and Afghanistan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal, disclosing an important breakthrough in efforts to end the 10-year war.Karzai, whose government had protested being left out of ...