President Ashraf Ghani congratulated Sadyr Japarov, the newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan, and stressed on expansion of bilateral relations.

India’s push with the trilateral arrangement for Uzbekistan to use Chabahar port is important in the context of expanding bilateral, trilateral, as well as broader regional cooperation. But more significantly, it is a geopolitical move aimed at countering growing Chinese influence in the region

Kabul started its Sunday morning with a powerful explosion, according to reports.

US Special Envoy on Afghan peace process Zalmay Khalilzad says the intra-Afghan negotiations must resume on 5 January.

A car-bomb attack in front of Public Protection unit in southern Ghazni province killed at least 26 and wounded 17 more on Sunday morning, according to officials.

In 2011, Pakistan’s ISI and Afghanistan’s NDS agreed on an MoU for intelligence sharing and cooperation. However, the then NDS chief refused to sign the MoU as the Ghani administration faced stiff resistance from within on the issue

After 23 rockets landed in different parts of Kabul city, the Iranian embassy in Kabul announced that one of the rockets landed at its compound, but had no casualties.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior affairs says that 14 rockets were landed in various residential parts of Kabul city.

President Ashraf Ghani and the Pakistani PM Imran Khan held a joint press conference on Thursday afternoon. President Ghani said the Afghan people demand a comprehensive ceasefire and that violence is not an answer to the current situation. Pakistani PM stressed that his country will do everything possible to reduce the violence.

“Russia was broken into pieces by the students and graduates of Darul Uloom Haqqania and America was also sent packing,” beamed Shah, an influential cleric at the seminary that critics have dubbed the “university of jihad”