Afghan women lose fight for freedom

Ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's twelfth visit to India, New Delhi on Saturday said that it was ready to consider Kabul's request for supply of weapons, but insisted that the issue should be discussed at the Strategic Partnership Council set up by the ...

Some of the wounded Afghan children lie in a ward of a hospital in Kandahar late on Friday. KANDAHAR: Two car bombs exploded on Friday in a sprawling housing development in southern Afghanistan linked to the family of President Hamid Karzai, killing ...

A police chief who conducted a successful campaign against the Taliban in his district was killed by gunmen riding motorcycles, while four soldiers died in a roadside bombing in western Afghanistan, the Government said on Saturday. Ghani Khan, police chief of ...

AFGHANISTANS parliament has refused to pass a new law banning violence against women. Religious MPs objected to at least eight articles in the legislation banning violence against women The failure is a severe blow to progress made in women's rights ...

Two soldiers from Southern California have been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Sgt. 1st-class Jeffrey Baker, 29, of Hesperia in San Bernardino County, and Spec. William Gilbert, 24, from Hacienda Heights, were ...

font size decrease font size increase font size Twin bomb explosions have killed at least nine people and injured dozens in the troubled southern Afghanistan. According to Press TV, quoting security sources, Afghan security officials said the ...

A three -day Afghan film festival was inaugurated here by the Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammand Abdali. Speaking on the occasion, theAfghan Ambassador appreciated the work of some . Bollywood actors of the fifties and sixties and expressed ...

Ambassador of Afghanistan to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, said here on Saturday that Afghanistan needs India's commitment in the defence sector not only for tackling problems such as terrorism in Afghanistan, but also to avoid a spillover effect of the same ...

The inauguration function of the Afghan Film Festival that kicked off in the city on Friday, witnessed the presence of some significant personalities from Afghanistan who flew down especially for the event. Noted Afghani filmmaker Siddiq Barmak ...