During the phone conversation on Sunday, the two countries’ senior diplomats discussed the Afghan peace process.
The U.S. top diplomat Blinken spoke with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, “and highlighted the importance of continued cooperation on the Afghan peace process,” read the statement.
They also discussed Pakistan’s counterterrorism commitments, continuing cooperation on Afghan peace, and supporting regional stability, tweeted the U.S. Secretary of State....
In a statement issued Monday, May 17, the ministry said as many as 65 Taliban fighters have been killed and 36 others wounded in Afghan forces raids in the past 24 hours.
According to the statement, the attacks were carried out in Helmand, Kandahar, Balkh and Baghlan provinces.
A number of the insurgents’ IEDs and weapons were also destroyed, the statement read.
There was no comment...
Police forces in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul and defused an IED in the fifth district of the city in Kot-e Sangi area.
According to the provincial police spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz, the IED incorporated a mobile phone and was defused before going off.
There were similar plots in the past that police foiled.
No one has claimed responsibility, nor was there any arrests made.
It comes amid...
In a statement released Sunday, the Ministry of Defense said that Afghan forces backed by air forces yesterday afternoon targeted Taliban bases in Baghlan-e Markazi (Central Baghlan) district of the province.
As many as 12 Taliban fighters were killed and eight others wounded in the Afghan raids.
The statement added a Taliban base, one vehicle and a number of weapons were destroyed.
The Taliban officials have...
Helmand, Kandahar, Kunduz, Kabul and several other provinces witnessed deadly attacks and bombings during the Eid days.
The Afghan government and the Taliban both blame each other for breaking the ceasefire.
Government officials constantly point the blame at Taliban as perpetrators and/or plotters of these attacks.
Zabihullah Mujahed, a Taliban spokesman, however, spoke to TKG, accusing the Afghan government of breaching the truce it promised on...
Dastagir Nazari, spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, spoke with TKG on Sunday, warning people’s carelessness over health measures during Eid days could lead to a spike in the coronavirus infection cases and that would be seen within the next one week.
As many as 114 cases of the COVID-19 reported in the country out of 1,402 tests, according to the spokesman...
As many as six more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 2,745, according to a health ministry spokesman.
Also, as many as 114 new cases of infection were reported in the country, according to Dastagir Nazari, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, bringing the nationwide case count to 63,598.
The infection rate was 8.11% in...
In a Facebook post, First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said that no arrest had been made so far in relation with destroying electricity pylons but measures are taken to protect them.
Efforts are underway to identify, arrest and hold the perpetrators to account, he said.
He called the action “nuisance and crime”.
It comes as a day earlier Afghan Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of...
President Ghani added the Afghan government is willing and committed to end the war and ensure peace in the country, calling on the Taliban to prove its wills for peace too.
As foreign troops are leaving the country, President Ghani said there is no excuse for the Taliban to continue hostility.
He urged the elders to put pressure on the group to participate in the...
A truck struck a landmine in Dasht-e Padola area in Kabul’s seventh district Sunday morning around 7:00 local time, said provincial police.
According to Ferdaws Faramarz, Kabul police spokesman, the driver was injured in the explosion and taken to hospital.
The IED was placed on the ground from the war time.
The explosion comes amid a spike in bomb attacks across the war-torn country, claiming mostly...
