KABUL: Police forces on Sunday rescued a child who had been kidnapped in northern Kunduz province, authorities said. A kidnapped child named Omar Farooq was released during an operation by police, said Kunduz Police Spokesman Enamudin Rahmani. He said that the Omar Farooq is resident of Jan Aleemstreet, who was …
Read More »Commission receives ballots from six provinces
KABUL: The ballots from six provinces (Kabul, Parwan, Khost, Nangarhar, Panjshir and Laghman) have been transported to Kabul and are being saved in the database of the Independent Election Commission, the commission’s officials said Friday. “Our colleagues are gathering the ballots as they are arriving from six provinces. We hope …
Read More »Afghanistan ramping up diplomacy to bring in Mullah Baradar
Following the release of Mullah Baradar from Pakistan’s incarceration, President Ghani’s administration is seen to be striving to have the top militant leader brought into Afghanistan. It is said that Mullah Ghani Baradar was freed upon the demand of the U.S. government; while the Afghan government is expected next week …
Read More »Ex-President agog after Pakistan frees Taliban leader
In the wake of Pakistan’s freeing Taliban’s co-founder, former President Hamid Karzai is pinning hope that Mullah Baradar’s release will usher in advancements in peace process in Afghanistan. The former president was also applause for Pakistani government’s decision to free the militant leader from prison, saying it was a positive …
Read More »Kandahar to vote for parliament candidates
AT-KABUL: People in the southern province of Kandahar are to come out to elect their representatives in the parliament, a week later the polls were opened in another 32 provinces (Polling sites remain closed in Ghazni province for some unknown reasons) as the election was postponed because of the killing …
Read More »Over half a million refugees return home this year from Iran, Pakistan
AT-KABUL: More than 650,000 Afghan refugees have repatriated from Iran and Pakistan this year, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) said on Friday. From Pakistan 27,375 and from Iran 630,283 refugees have returned to Afghanistan since the beginning of 2018, the IOM said in a statement. It added, last week …
Read More »Three Daesh terrorists killed in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: At least three terrorists were killed after a U.S.-led airstrike pummeled an area where a group of terrorists associated with ISIS-K were planting roadside mines in eastern Nangarhar province. The 201st Silab Military Corps in the East said a group of three ISIS-K militants who were planting an improvised …
Read More »New policy adopted to prevent sexual harassment in army
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday it has devised a policy aimed at preventing sexual harassment in the squads of the national army amid existence of violations of women’s rights. The ministry’s spokesman Ghafoor Ahmad Jawid said: “This policy is an efficient stride to protect immunity and …
Read More »Coalition forces limit contacts with Afghans in insider attack’s wake
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO has limited face to face communication with Afghan security forces after the Kandahar and Herat incidents. On October 18, Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq and the provincial National Directorate Security (NDS) head were killed and some other high-level government officials and US general were wounded …
Read More »Editorial: Time for rethinking with consensus
Afghanistan and its people are suffering since a long due to blind faiths in each and everyone. During so-called cold war they remain divided as some of them expecting Socialist Revolution from former USSR whereas someone attached hopes with US led allies regarding enforcement of Islamic Sharia. And similar was …
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