President Ashraf Ghani said Sunday that peace and stability in Afghanistan will bring peace and stability to the region. Speaking at a National Security Council meeting Ghani said: “Peace will allow for major economic projects for the economic prosperity and economic development of Afghanistan and the region as soon as possible.”

Former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed in 2016 in a US drone strike, had a life insurance policy with a Pakistan company under a false name, and had properties in Karachi worth millions, an anti-terrorism court in Karachi heard on Saturday.

On December 4, 2020, a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed in an exchange of fire with the Security Forces (SFs) in a forested area near Hakwa village under Gangaloor Police Station limits in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh. The body of the Maoist, identified as Arjun, a ‘platoon commander’ of the Gangaloor ‘area committee’ of the Maoists, was recovered […]

Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on December 1, 2020, disclosed that the government was moving to re-activate the investigation of 83 cases of Hefazat-e-Islam’s (HeI) ‘terrorist activities’ in 2013, adding,

US and NATO Forces Commander in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller on Sunday vowed support to Afghan security forces.

Four civilians were killed in a roadside blast in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, an official said.

Afghanistan and the United Aab Emirates have agreed to step up bilateral cooperation to a level reflecting the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Taliban insurgents have once again captured the Dehrawud district of central Uruzgan province, local officials said on Saturday.

Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had purchased a ‘life insurance’ policy from a private firm in Pakistan. A Karachi-based anti-terrorism court was informed on Saturday the former Taliban supremo, who was killed in a US drone attack in 2016, had bought the life insurance policy using a fake identity.

Afghan Local Police (ALP ) chief for the Zherai district of southern Kandahar province has been killed in an attack, a well-placed security source said on Sunday.