President Ashraf Ghani yesterday met with a Pakistani delegation led by Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua and discussed the Afghan government’s peace offer to the Taliban. Soon after Saturday’s meeting, Ghani tweeted, “Today, I received Pakistani NSA at Dilkusha palace. As a follow up to Kabul Process, I have extended an official invitation to Pakistani Prime Minister to visit Afghanistan. This is...
Local officials in Uruzgan province said that 17 Taliban insurgents were killed and some others were injured in airstrikes conducted by Afghan security forces in Chora district yesterday. Ahmad Fazili, acting provincial police spokesman, told Killid that the strikes targeted Taliban hideouts in the district. He added that there were no civilian casualties. Taliban militants are yet to comment on the statement. ...
Security officials in Nangarhar said that 12 Daesh militants were killed and four injured in Haska Mina and Nazyani districts of the province. Brigadier Sheren Aqa Faqiri, spokesman for Selab 201 Military Corps, told Killid that six Daesh militants were killed and two injured in an airstrike targeting a Daesh hideout in Gorgorie area of Haska Mina last night. He added lots of ammunition of...
An explosion rocked PD 9th area of Kabul around 9:10 am today. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for Kabul police, said that two civilians were killed and three injured in the blast. He added that target of the blast is yet to be known. More to come… ...
Civilians continue to flee Syria's Eastern Ghouta and Afrin in record numbers as Syrian and Turkish military operations continue against their respective foes. Roughly 50,000 people have fled the two areas - 20,000 from Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, and 30,000 from Afrin, in Syria's Kurdish-dominated northeast - according to some counts. Al Jazeera reported that eastern Ghouta has been at the centre of fighting...
Susan Rice, former US national security advisor, in her article entitled “Tell the Truth About Our Longest War” said that the nearly 17-year-old Afghanistan conflict, the longest war in United States history, will not end on the battlefield. She said that it can be resolved only at the negotiating table. “|So, the bold offer last month from President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan to negotiate with...
Afghanistan will host high-level talks with Pakistan today to "chalk out a way forward" to improve strained bilateral ties and enhance cooperation to further a recent Afghan offer of peace talks to the Taliban. Pakistani National Security Adviser Nasser Janjua will travel to Kabul for the daylong discussions "on a special invitation" from his Afghan counterpart, Hanif Atmar, said an official announcement in Islamabad...
At least 7 people were killed and over 20 were injured after a bus collided with a car in Kandahar province on Wednesday afternoon. The incident happened in Tormanda area of Maiwand district. Qudratullah Khushbakht, spokesman for provincial governor, said that the passenger bus was on its way to Herat province. He added that seven people were killed and 22 others were injured. Collisions on highways are...
Stephen Hawking, one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists, died at age 76. On the cover of the Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Hawking appeared with Einstein and Madame Curie, an apt demonstration of his renown. For decades, Hawking was confined to a wheelchair by a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disease that handcuffs movement. He communicated via a...
At least two border policemen were killed in a car bomb in Helmand province this morning. The attack took place at about 6:0 am local time in Nad Ali district while the border police had gathered in the area, spokesman for the provincial governor, Omar Zwak told Killid. “A military operation was launched a few days ago in that area and the blast happened while...