S. Mudassir Ali Shah
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KABUL (Pajhwok): The United States has failed to enable the Afghan security forces to operate independently despite spending $76 billion on arming them over the last 16 years.
Washington could maintain its support to Afghanistan because the... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): Ex-president Hamid Karzai has warned that outsourcing the war in Afghanistan will lead to deterioration of security if the privatisation proposal goes ahead.
Outsourcing the war management to the notorious private security firm... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission (JEC) will meet in Kabul in September on ways of bolstering bilateral cooperation between the neighbours.
Ambassador Dr. Omar Zakhilwal and Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): A man was killed and dozens of people were wounded on Monday night when an explosive-laden fruit truck exploded in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
The body of a man was recovered from the debris during a... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump has asked national security officials to grant Afghan girls visas to enable them to take part in a US robotics contest, a media report says.
Trump intervened after six female Afghan students, seeking to... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): With Washington’s new US policy still undefined, President Donald Trump’s advisers have hired two business tycoons who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send additional troops to... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): One senior police officer was killed and at 10 other were injured in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, bordering Afghanistan, on Monday.
District Police Officer (DPO) for Qila Abdullah Sajid... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Tribal families who fled to Afghanistan as a result of a military offensive in North Waziristan Agency are all poised to start returning home today (Monday), an official said.
About 1,200 individuals will return North... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): Turkmenistan says it is all set to build the Afghan section of a major gas pipeline worth billions of dollars, according to a Turkmen media report.
Muhummet Murat Amanov, chairman of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): A senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official has been arrested on the charge of sexually harassing an Afghan woman at the Islamabad airport.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, irked by the FIA assistant... read more