By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: The peacemaker, Pir Syed Ahmad Gailani, has died on Saturday evening in a hospital here as a result of an illness, official said. He was around 84-year old. “With great regrets it is informed that the spiritual, national and Jihadi figure, and also the founder of the …
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Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah hoped that the newly-sworn US President Donald Trump would continue supporting the Afghan people and government. The statement came after the new US president talked to his troops stationed in Bagram, Afghanistan. Terrorism and extremism are biggest threats. Pakistan has supported the notorious groups for …
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AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai expressed condolence for the death of former jihadi leader, Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani. “With regrets, I was informed that a great national and spiritual personality and jihadi leader Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani passed away due to illness,” Karzai was quoted as saying by a statement. …
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AT-KABUL: The Taliban group has asked the new US President Donald Trump and his cabinet members not to follow the policy of previous US leaders. “Afghanistan is burning due to wrong policies of previous US officials and their occupations,” the group said Sunday in a statement. “If Trump doesn’t revise …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Kabul Municipality (KM) on Sunday said that 100-150 people are losing lives by biting of stray and mad dogs annually across the country. “Mad and stray dogs spread rabies via biting, which is not too simple to be cured and it causes death to 100-150 people …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Sunday that its operatives arrested 16 Taliban insurgents in southern Kandahar province. “These terrorists were operating under command of Mulwi Sayed Mohammad, Mullah Raz Mohammad and Mullah Mirza the commanders of the group in the capital city and related district of …
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AT-KABUL: The Kabul Municipality (KM) announced on Sunday that sanitation and cleaning services of the capital would be privatized soon. “Contract of cleaning and sanitation services of Kabul’s five districts will be given to a private sector in the next six months,” said Kabul Mayor, Abdullah Habibzai. He said that …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least four Taliban insurgents were killed and a Taliban shadow governor was wounded in the suicide attack, carried out by a rival fighter in northern Kunduz province, local official said Sunday. “The incident took place in Dashti Archi district of the province while a suicide …
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By Wakeel Khan-After the fall of Sikh kingdom in Punjab, the British crossed river Indus in 1847, for the second time in nine years, and violently encountered the first non-Indian people on their imperial frontier – the Pashtun tribes. The rough terrain of the Pashtun territory had not much worth …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that a Taliban skilled mine expertly was detained in eastern Nangarhar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that a Taliban skilled mine maker, identified as Barialai, was arrested during an operation carried out in Jalalabad, …
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