China supports an Afghan- led and Afghan-owned national reconciliation process, with a view to achieving peace and stability in the country, a Chinese envoy said here on Tuesday.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
At least six people were injured on Wednesday when mortars fired from Afghan side of the border landed in Pakistani border areas of South Waziristan, tribesmen in the region said.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
A big blast rocked Afghan capital city Kabul, followed by gun shots on Thursday, with casualties feared, an official said on the condition of anonymity.
Australia has extended the Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) deployment to Afghanistan providing high resolution Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) support until July 2014
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai that his negotiators will be allowed to access to senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Pakistan has freed three more senior Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban to nearly fifty in one year, official sources said late Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called for a quick signing of a bilateral security agreement with Afghanistan after the country's tribal elders gave their blessing to the pact that governs future ties between Washington and Kabul.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured the visiting Afghan High Peace Council President that his government will fully back the peace efforts in Afghanistan, reported local media here Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he had reached an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the terms of a security deal that governs future American military presence in the Asian country.
A Taliban key commander was killed in an airstrike in western Afghanistan's Nimroz province, sources said Sunday.
Fifty-five Taliban militants were killed and 37 wounded in separate joint military operations since early Tuesday, said the Afghan Interior Ministry Wednesday morning.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Kabul for Bishkek on Thursday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kyrgyzstan, said a statement issued here by Arg, the Afghan Presidential Palace.
Pakistan said Tuesday it would soon release senior Afghan Taliban leader Mulla Andul Ghani Baradar who was arrested in Karachi in February 2010 in a joint raid by the American CIA agents and Pakistani forces.
According to the Chinese embassy, one of the missing Chinese was forced onto a car driven by Afghan nationals heading out of Kabul in the early morning on Friday.
Pakistan on Thursday decided to extend the stay of Afghan refugees until 2015, officials said.
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