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Kabul, Jan 9 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s new cabinet lineup was formally presented Saturday to the country’s parliament after the legislators rejected 17 designated ministers last week.
The new 16 nominees included Zalmai Rasool, a former national security advisor slated to be foreign minister. The post was vacant in the previous list.
None of the rejected [...]
Kabul, Dec 28 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Monday into a NATO airstrike that, according to his office, killed ten civilians – including eight school students – in eastern Afghanistan.
The civilians were killed in the airstrike Sunday morning in Narang district of eastern province of Kunar, the presidential palace said in a [...]
Kabul, Dec 15 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai said five people, including two women, were killed in a suspected suicide attack at the diplomatic enclave of Kabul Tuesday.
Speaking to senior government officials and diplomats at an anti-corruption conference, he said the blast took place near the residence of former first vice-president Ahmad Zia Massoud, who [...]
Islamabad, Dec. 10 (ANI): Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that talks with the extremists are very necessary to prevent further chaos in the country.
“It is high time to enter into dialogue with the militants to save the future of the nation, as it was the question of the [...]
Washington, Dec 7 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked the international community to have patience as Afghanistan builds the ability to take responsibility for its own security.
In his first Western interview Sunday since US President Obama announced plans to put another 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, Karzai told US-based broadcaster CNN that he hoped to [...]
London, Nov 29 (IANS) International forces will begin a lengthy process of withdrawing from Afghanistan by the end of 2010 under a detailed roadmap to be agreed at an international conference here January, according to a report Sunday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out detailed ‘benchmarks’ for the process of ‘Afghanisation’ amid growing calls [...]
Multan (Pakistan), Nov.21 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad should also be included in the talks between the Indian government and Kashmiri leaders, as it is also a party to the dispute.
Interacting with media persons here, Qureshi denied being involved in any back-channel diplomacy with India, and added that Islamabad [...]
Kabul, Nov.20 (ANI): At least 13 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the western Afghan city of Farah on Friday.
Reports said that a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed the 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others in a busy city square.
Several children were among the wounded in the [...]
Kabul, Nov. 20 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has set a five-year time frame for Afghan forces to take over from international troops.
“We are determined that by the next five years, the Afghan forces are capable of taking the lead in ensuring security and stability across the country,” The Telegraph quoted Karzai, as saying.
Karzai’s statement [...]
Kabul, Nov 19 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in Thursday for a second term in office amid tight security at Kabul’s presidential palace.
Security in the Afghan capital was tightened drastically out of fear of possible attacks by Taliban insurgents wishing to disrupt the inauguration.
Wearing a black lambskin hat and a green traditional striped [...]
Kabul, Nov 19 (DPA) Tight security marked the beginning of the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Kabul’s presidential palace for a second term in office Thursday.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain took part in the ceremony.
More [...]
London, Nov 12 (DPA) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that more troops will ‘definitely’ be needed in Afghanistan to train Afghan soldiers and the police but the level of reinforcements was still under consideration.
Speaking in London after talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the NATO chief said he and Brown agreed [...]
Paris, Nov 5 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai is ‘corrupt’ but must be supported and ‘legitimised’, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in an interview published Thursday in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune.
‘Karzai is corrupt, ok,’ Kouchner said, adding: ‘We have to legitimise him,’ so that NATO will ultimately be able to leave Afghanistan.
Although western [...]
New Delhi, Nov.4 (ANI): The Indian Government on Tuesday said that it looks forward to taking New Delhi’s ties with Afghanistan forward under the leadership of re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said: “We have noted the announcement by the Afghan Independent Election Commission on November 2, 2009 declaring [...]
Kabul, Nov 3 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to assemble a government of ‘national unity’, a day after the presidential runoff was cancelled and he was declared the winner.
His new cabinet would include representatives from all of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups and political camps, Karzai said in Kabul.
The president left open whether the new [...]
Kabul, Oct 31 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s challenger in the presidential run-off election is widely expected to boycott the poll scheduled for Nov 7 unless his conditions are met by Saturday midnight, officials said.
Abdullah Abdullah, the second-placed finisher in the country’s Aug 20 elections cancelled a planned trip to India Saturday and was scheduled [...]
Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry appears to be playing a far more significant role in matters relating to Afghanistan with the wholehearted support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“We have an immense amount at stake in Afghanistan, and I felt ‘when you see a moment, move,’” Kerry told Politico [...]
Kabul, Oct 20 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday that he failed to win an outright election in the first round of voting and accepted the results requiring a second round that will be held in two weeks.
The president told a press conference at his palace that the decision for the second round of [...]
Kabul, Oct 20 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday that he failed to win an outright election in the first round and accepted the results for the second round of voting to be held in two weeks.
The president told a press conference at his palace that the decision for the second round of the [...]
Islamabad, Oct.14 (ANI): Pakistan’s Shakarparian Tree Garden is eyeing a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world’s only garden where 112 international leaders have planted saplings while on a visit to a country.
Situated on a low hill between Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the Shakarparian garden has about 112 saplings planted by [...]
Kabul/New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Friday visited the Indian embassy in Afghanistan, which was the target of a suicide attack Thursdar that left 17 people dead. She, however, refrained from pointing fingers at Pakistan.
‘I think the investigation should be completed,’ Rao told reporters in Kabul when asked if Pakistan was behind [...]
Kabul/New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) At least 17 people were killed and 76 injured, some seriously, when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday morning in the second such terror attack since July 2008.
Barring three Indian paramilitary personnel who were injured, all the other casualties [...]
Kabul, Oct 8 (ANI): Strongly condemning the bomb blast outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday described it as a “heinous act of terror” planned to target civilians.
“This heinous act of terror was an obvious attack on [...]
Kabul/New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) A Taliban suicide bomber exploded near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008.
No Indian was killed in the devastating bombing on the busy road outside the embassy. Afghan officials said the dead were one police [...]
Washington, Sep 22 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai has endorsed a US military call for more troops in the conflict-torn country, calling it ‘the right approach’.
Reports earlier Monday said that General Stanley McChrystal, the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, wrote in a confidential report to Defence Secretary Robert Gates that the war against [...]
Berlin, Aug 13 (ANI-IRNA): The Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Stern has said in a report that the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has stockpiled tons of raw opium at his countryside residence in southern Afghanistan.
According to the report quoted by the Iran’s official news agency IRNA, British elite forces discovered and confiscated tons of [...]
