Israel’s long-standing concern over an 'Islamic bomb' began in the 1970s when Pakistan started developing nuclear capabilities under Abdul Qadeer Khan. After India tested its first nuclear weapon in ...

Rashid Khan, for long one of the most compelling sights in T20 cricket, has now climbed to a pinnacle becoming the format's highest wicket-taker ever. The 26-year-old Afghanistan wristspinner went ...

Mohammad Yaqub Khan of Afghanistan (middle) with Sir Louis Cavagnari (second from the left), ... Sardar Muhammad Daoud, had sent an Afghan army into Bajaur in September 1960.

(MENAFN- Khaama Press) The winners of Aga Khan music award 2022 was announced in Switzerland on Wednesday, featuring all 10 laureates with diverse identities and backgrounds including one from ...

In many ways, the Qoshtepa Canal represents for Afghanistan’s de facto authorities a bold new vision for a peaceful, verdant, prosperous, and self-sufficient country. Of course, the Taliban were ...

Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid ...

Laying blame is a complicated business so we need to go back to the first cause: the coup d’état of 1978, which saw the overthrow of president Mohammed Daoud Khan, and the subsequent invasion ...

The 13th century introduces the formidable Genghis Khan, whose conquests extend to Afghanistan, yet the real significance of this era is the gradual emergence of a unified Afghan identity.

Fifty years ago, Afghanistan was proclaimed a republice in a swift palace coup which overthrew the monarchy and the regime of King Zahir Shah June 18, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

Farid Azim, an official at the National Development Company overseeing its construction, pointed out last year that Afghanistan’s first president, Mohammad Daud Khan, had a similar vision in the ...

Communists overthrew the regime of Daoud Khan, the cousin and successor of the former king. Yet the communists enjoyed only a small base of popular support, and their education, land, and marriage ...

General Austin Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, greets General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, the Afghan defense minister, during a ceremony on July 12, 2021, in Kabul that marked the end ...