Pajhwok Services

SMS News Service

Photo Service

Previous Pause Next

Election Coverage

Special Mining Page

Afghan Peace Process Special Page

Addvertise With Pajhwok

Click Here for more information

Daily Newsletter

Language
Sending Time (GMT / Kabul time)

Suggest a Story

Pajhwok is interested in your story suggestions. Please tell us your thoughts by clicking here.

Willing for formal negotiations with US: Taliban

By
Pajhwok Monitor
On
Nov 30, 2019 - 08:59
KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban insurgents have voiced their willingness to resume peace negotiations with the United States. A day earlier, after President Donald Trump hoped the militant movement, which had resumed informal talks with the US, would agree...
Read More

Taliban’s district chief among 4 killed in Faryab

By
Qutbuddin Kohi
On
Nov 25, 2019 - 12:01
MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s shadow chief for the Almar district of northern Faryab province has been killed along with three other insurgents in an airstrike. In a statement, the 209 th Shaheen Military Corps said Maulvi Abdul Ghani was killed...
Read More

‘Taliban not allowing current meter on Helmand River’

By
Ajmal Wesal
On
Nov 21, 2019 - 00:30
TIRIKONT (Pajhwok): The Taliban have long been preventing the installation of a current meter on Helmand River in Dehrawud district of central Uruzgan province on the behest of Iran, the governor alleged on Wednesday. Governor Mohammad Shafiq...
Read More

Taliban say prisoner swap to help build trust

By
Pajhwok Report
On
Nov 19, 2019 - 18:43
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Tuesday termed the release of two Western hostages in return for three key rebel commanders as ‘a good omen’ and said it could help the peace process and build trust. The Taliban freed two Western hostages in southern...
Read More

Dozens of IS, Taliban rebels surrender in Nangarhar

By
On
Nov 10, 2019 - 14:29
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Dozens of militants have surrendered in eastern Nangarhar province, the governor’s office said on Sunday. As many as 32 Islamic State (IS) and four Taliban fighters joined the government-initiated peace and reconciliation...
Read More

Govt, Taliban deny holding secret peace talks

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Nov 10, 2019 - 10:39
KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Security Council (NSC) has rejected reports that the government has sent a delegation abroad for talks with the Taliban . Several media outlets recently reported the government had dispatched a team to the United Arab...
Read More

MPs worried about possible release of Anas Haqqani

By
Khawaja Basir fitri
On
Nov 02, 2019 - 17:34
KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members on Saturday asked the government to explain possible release of Anas Haqqani in return for two foreign professors held hostage by the Taliban . Kevin King, a 60-year-old American, and...
Read More

Taliban increase tax on coal trucks in Samangan

By
Mohammad Barat
On
Oct 29, 2019 - 17:28
AIBAK (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have increased tax on trucks transporting coal from mines in Dara-i-Sauf district of northern Samangan province. Haji Raz Mohammad Moyed, Samangan provincial council head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban...
Read More

Taliban to attend intra-Afghan talks in China

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Oct 23, 2019 - 10:31
KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s political office in Qatar says its delegation will participate in intra-Afghan talks in China. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted China’s special representative for Afghanistan Deng Xijun met Mullah Baradar, head of...
Read More

Taliban fighting to promote Pakistan’s interests

By
Storai Karimi
On
Oct 18, 2019 - 13:36
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The Taliban are fighting to safeguard Pakistan ’s interests in Afghanistan , a former national security advisor (NSA) claimed on Friday. Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta insisted the Taliban were not fighting against the occupation of...
Read More

Taliban reject UN report as flawed, unilateral

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Oct 18, 2019 - 12:08
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Friday rejected UNAMA’s report on civilian casualties in the increasingly deadly conflict in Afghanistan . On Thursday, the UN mission said more civilians were killed in July than in any previous one-month period...
Read More

Taliban reverse ban on anti-polio drive in Uruzgan

By
Ajmal Wesal
On
Oct 14, 2019 - 17:14
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have allowed health officials in Uruzgan province to vaccinate children against polio disease in areas under their control, reversing an eight-month old ban. The Taliban lift ban on anti-polio campaign in...
Read More

Taliban rejects attack on Mullah Baradar’s home in Pakistan

By
Pajhwok
On
Oct 11, 2019 - 10:26
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban on Friday rejected attack on its co-founder Mullah Baradar’s home in Pakistan as false propaganda. On Thursday, the National Directorate of Security ( NDS ), claimed an armed attack on Mullah Barader’s home in Pakistan...
Read More

Key Taliban militants killed in Farah airstrikes

By
Benyamin Bariz
On
Oct 08, 2019 - 14:23
FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): Two key Taliban members have been killed in separate airstrikes in western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. Mohibullah Mohib, police spokesman, said that Mullah Abdul Samad and Mullah Dawood were eliminated in air...
Read More

Delhi wants Kabul included in peace process

By
Pajhwok Monitor
On
Oct 05, 2019 - 11:36
KABUL (Pajhwok): India has called for the involvement of all stakeholders, including the Afghan government, in the peace process. A spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs told a weekly media briefing in New Delhi: “All processes should...
Read More

Herat power pylons blown up for 6th time in a year

By
Storai Karimi
On
Oct 02, 2019 - 18:11
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Electricity pylons in western Herat province have been blown up by Taliban militants for a sixth time this solar year , local officials said Wednesday. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) or power utility officials in Herat...
Read More

‘9 civilians suffer casualties in Taliban attack in Ghor’

By
جمشيد کريمى
On
Oct 02, 2019 - 18:03
FIROZKOH (Pajhwok): Local officials on Wednesday claimed two civilians were killed and seven others injured in a Taliban attack on Laqak area on the outskirts of Firozkoh, capital of western Ghor province. Abdulhai Khatibi, Ghor governor’s spokesman...
Read More

Govt-Taliban talks to begin soon: MoFA

By
بهشته ارغند
On
Oct 01, 2019 - 18:50
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday said regional countries and the international community have once again intensified efforts to revive the Afghan peace process. MoFA spokesman Sibghatullah Ahmadi told a press...
Read More

Parwan: Taliban kidnap 9 election workers, 17 observers

By
Ahmad Fareed Tanha
On
Sep 29, 2019 - 21:34
CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Taliban militants abducted nine election commission officials and 17 observers on the Election Day (yesterday) in central Parwan province, sources said Sunday. On Saturday, voting started at 7am and ended at 5pm under strong...
Read More

Russia, China, Iran support our stance: Taliban

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Sep 23, 2019 - 18:36
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban say Russia, China and Iran support their position about their negotiations with the US. Suhail Shaheen, Taliban’s spokesman for their political office in Qatar, during a trip to China, said they traveled to Russia on...
Read More

Advertisement

Advertisement

Twitter Update