Kabul, Oct 8 : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of supporting the insurgents fighting NATO forces in his country, saying that the Taliban couldn''t “lift a finger without the Pakistanis”.

During an interview with the BBC marking ten years since the start of war, Karzai admitted that his government and the US-backed NATO mission have failed to provide security to Afghans.

Kabul, Oct 6 : A plot to kill Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has been foiled by the nation’s intelligence agents in Kabul following the arrest of six men, including one of his own bodyguards.

The group was reportedly affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Haqqani network, an insurgent faction that has been blamed for a string of recent high-profile attacks.

Kabul, Oct 4 : In a barely veiled reference to Pakistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that a "double game" is being played in the fight against militants.

In his televised address, Karzai described Afghanistan and Pakistan as "inseparable brothers", but accused Islamabad of not cooperating on security issues, "which is disappointing for us".

Kabul, Oct 3 : The Afghan government has cited investigations to claim that the killers of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, its negotiator with the Taliban, were Pakistanis.

"Documents and evidence together with the biography, address and phone numbers of suspects involved in the incident have been submitted to the government of Pakistan in order to arrest and hand [suspects] over," the BBC quoted the Afghan government statement, as saying.

Kabul, Sept 9 : NATO has admitted that an American soldier has mistakenly killed an Afghan journalist working for the BBC, assuming him to be a suicide bomber, during a complex attack in southern Afghanistan in July.

After making an apology to his family, NATO officials issued a two-page summary of the episode, which said the soldier believed the reporter, Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, had fired on American troops and was about to detonate a suicide vest when he “shot the individual with his M-4, killing him,” The New York Times reports.

Kabul, Jan 11 : Three US soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan, while one NATO soldier and 11 Taliban militants were killed elsewhere in the country, officials said Monday.

The US soldiers died Monday afternoon "in an engagement with enemy forces in southern Afghanistan," a military statement said.

A NATO soldier also died of his wounds Monday following a fight with the insurgents in eastern region, NATO said in a separate statement. It did not disclose the soldier's nationality.

Kabul, Jan 9 - 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 nominees was on the new list.

Three women were on the revised list presented to the lower house of the parliament by Vice President Karim Khalili. They were nominated as ministers of women's affairs, public health and public works.

No nominees were introduced to parliament for the energy and telecommunications ministries.

Kabul, Jan 7 : A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a busy market in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing himself and nine other people and injuring 27 more, a government spokesman said.

The bomber targeted Baser Ahmad, a commander in the Afghan Campaign Forces that are allied with international troops in Gardez, the capital city of the south-eastern province of Paktia, Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.

"The bombing killed Baser Ahmad, two of his bodyguards, a border police officer and five civilians," Samoon told DPA.

Kabul, Jan 3 : Afghanistan's parliament Saturday rejected 17 out of 24 cabinet nominees proposed by President Hamid Karzai, including a powerful ex-warlord and the only female candidate put forward.

Defence Minister General Abdul Rahim Wardak, Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar, and Finance Minister Mohammad Omar Zakhelwal, three key ministers favoured by the West, were among the seven approved by the lower house of the parliament, government spokesman

Haseeb Noori said.

Kabul, Dec 31 : At least eight villagers were killed and two injured in an airstrike by NATO forces in Helmand province in Afghanistan, officials reported Thursday.

A spokesman for the provincial government said a house near the provincial capital Lashkar Gah was hit in the airstrike. The spokesman did not provide further details.

On the weekend, 10 civilians including eight children were killed in NATO military action in the eastern province of Kunar.

Kabul, Dec 31- For retired army colonel Gholam Rabani, the troop timetable set by US President Barack Obama is a clear sign that NATO forces will abandon Afghanistan just as Soviet troops did two decades ago.

"Sending 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to finish the job," Obama in an unexpected move also set summer 2011 as the start date for US troop withdrawal. The additional military commitment will bring the number of US troops alone in the country to 100,000.

Kabul, Dec. 30 : Senior military representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO forces held a tripartite meeting in Kabul on Tuesday to review the security situation on the Pak-Afghan border.

Kabul, Dec 28 : 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 statement.

Karzai "strongly condemned the attack", adding that the president sent a delegation, which included members of parliament, to the area to investigate the incident.

Kabul, Dec 21 : Afghan security forces killed three militants Monday after a group of Taliban fighters attacked a police station in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

The militants equipped with suicide vests and automatic weapons attacked a police station in the heart of Gardez city, the provincial capital of the south-eastern province of Paktika, Monday morning, Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.

Kabul, Dec. 21 : Britain''s senior most commander in Afghanistan has claimed that the NATOo mission has “lost the initiative” against the Taliban, and can be on the back foot within six months.

Lt. Gen. Sir Nick Parker admitted in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that the alliance’s successes had “not been as good as the success of the insurgents”.

NATO has not had “sufficient resources”, its command structures have been inadequate and it lacked “the right cultural approach,” he added.

Kabul, Dec 15 : President Hamid Karzai Tuesday vowed to combat widespread corruption in his government at all levels, calling it a menace that has brought shame to the country.

Since his re-election last month in polls marred by massive fraud, Karzai has been under mounting pressure from his government's Western allies to crack down on endemic corruption.

"We should remove the corruption whether it is in the size of a dot or in the size of the mountains," Karzai said at the opening of a three-day national conference on anti-corruption in Kabul.

Kabul, Dec 15 - A massive explosion rocked the diplomatic enclave of Kabul city Tuesday, causing unknown casualties and damage to several cars and houses, a police official said.

The blast occurred near the Heetal hotel, which located in the Wazir Akbar Khan area that houses several embassies and international organisations, Abdul Matin, a police officer at the site of the attack, told DPA.

Kabul, Dec 9 : The Taliban Wednesday warned the  government against sending 500 soldiers to Afghanistan to take part in the fight against insurgents, saying Seoul must be prepared for "bad consequences" if the troops are deployed.

South Korea had around 200 troops in Afghanistan until late 2007 as part of the international coalition forces that toppled the Taliban regime in late 2001. It withdrew its forces after Taliban kidnapped 21 Korean Christian missionaries.

Kabul, Dec 2 :Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta Wednesday welcomed the revised strategy of US President Barack Obama for Afghanistan, saying it would give his country a chance to take over the security of the war-torn country from international troops.

President Obama unveiled his long-awaited revised Afghanistan strategy in a speech on Tuesday in which he pledged to send 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan, but set a time frame of
18 months for US troops to start withdrawal after handing over security

to Afghan forces.

Kabul, Nov 28 - An explosion hit the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital Saturday morning but there were no casualties, police said.

The official said the bomb was planted in a garbage box and meant mainly to spark panic, Xinhua reported. (IANS)