KABUL (PAN): Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani arrived in Kabul on Thursday to condole with Afghan leadership over the assassination of High Peace Council Chairman Prof.
KABUL (PAN): Born in the mountainous northeastern province of Badakhshan in 1940, former president and High Peace Council head Burhanuddin Rabbani graduated from Al Azhar University in Egypt.
KABUL (PAN): An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter was damaged in a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): The US ambassador in Islamabad, Cameron Munter, has said Washington had concrete evidence of Pakistan’s ties with the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani group, blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, a Pakistani radio reported.
KABUL (PAN): A senior US official has warned of launching an operation against the Haqqani militant group in Pakistan, blaming the network for the latest suicide attacks in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
KABUL (PAN): Tens of kilograms of drugs were seized and nine smugglers detained in southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Five Afghan workers were killed and 102 people, including 77 US soldiers, wounded in a suicide bombing in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Foreign forces lost almost 2,710 soldiers, half of them from the US, and more than 18,000 were injured during the 10-year war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, a website reported on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the Taliban reiterated on Saturday their demand for an independent and impartial investigation into the incident.
