AT-KABUL: Counter-narcotics police destroyed six heroin factories in southern Helmand province, security officials said on Sunday. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the operation was launched in Bando village of Nowzad district of the province on late Saturday. “1090 kg of morphine, 15175 kg of ammonium chloride, …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Sunday said that polio vaccination drive would restart with the technical and financial support of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to achieve the goal of polio-free Afghanistan in 2017. Afghanistan, being a war-turn …

Fifteen years after the collapse of the Taliban regime, gender equality remains a distant dream in Afghanistan. Despite claims of progress, violence against women is still at boiling point. Lobbying for women’s right has been an uphill battled in the country. After long-years and immense pressure from Afghan women’s rights …

AT-KABUL: At least 49 insurgents were killed in different clearance operations lunched by the Afghan security forces within past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said in a statement on Sunday. The operations were lunched in different areas on Helmand, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Farah, Jowzjan, Herat and Faryab provinces, in …

You heard it time and time again during the presidential election season: If Donald Trump wins, people will move out of the country. Now, it looks like a whole state might up and create a new country. On Thursday, California’s secretary of state gave the go-ahead to Yes California Independence …

Hamid Karzai the biggest boosters of Russian moves in Afghanistan By JESSICA DONATI, HABIB KHAN TOTAKHIL and EHSANULLAH AMIRI-KABUL: Russia is making fresh inroads into Afghanistan that could complicate U.S. efforts to strengthen the fragile Kabul government, stamp out the resilient Taliban insurgency and end America’s longest war. Moscow last month …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban’s military commission chief Maulvi Sadiq including nine insurgents, were killed in an offensive attack by the Afghan security forces in Zabul province, officials said. “Nine Taliban’s insurgents including their military commission chief have been killed during a joint operation conducted by the Afghan National Police (ANP) and …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said that seven militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS), aka Daesh militants have been killed during an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province, security official said. “The killed militants were including Qazi Shahid, a key commander of Daesh terrorists group in Bandar …

AT-KABUL: A multi million company titled “Exchanger zone”, providing loans to boost up investment in private sectors has inaugurated in Kabul the other day. The company, “Exchanger zone” considers as a best financial partners for those in need of financial assistance, privately and publicly. “In advance to grant loan to …

The Afghan masses don’t like land mafias, and the vice versa. Some powerful wings are busy in seizing lands and then selling it illegally to others—a very much lucrative, but black business. The Afghan people are facing numerous challenges. If one tried to count these problems, the list will shape …