KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman on Tuesday rejected as wrong recent remarks by a US embassy official in Kabul that Washington had not requested nine military bases in Afghanistan after the formal withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai has written a letter to his US counterpart Barack Obama, seeking America's help in retaking nearly a dozen border security posts that were captured by Pakistani forces in eastern Nangarhar province a decade ago, an official said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Two Pakistanis were among four insurgents killed while as many others were detained in separate incidents in central Maidan Wardak and southern Kandahar provinces, officials said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): Nine people including a woman and a child were killed and more than two dozens wounded on Monday when a passenger bus struck a roadside bomb on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said.
MAIDAN WARDAK (PAN): A government delegation on Thursday launched efforts to patch up a row between Kuchi and Hazara tribes in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said.
MAIDAN SHAHAR (PAN): A pilotless aircraft of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in central Afghanistan, an official said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): The US military would soon transfer all affairs of the Bagram detention facility to Afghan authorities, President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman said on Saturday.
