AT-KABUL: The Criminal Justice Task Forces (CJTF) on Tuesday said that 65 drug runners including four women were arrested in different operations in the past one month. The Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) detained drug traffickers in different areas of Kabul, Herat, Uruzgan, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Helmand, Faryab, Balkh, Nangarhar, Kunduz and …

AT-KABUL:  The Ministry of Economy on Tuesday claimed that Afghan investors have invested around $80 billion abroad due to lack of required facilities, including adequate power. Speaking at the joint seminar with Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the Minister of Economy, Abdul Sattar Murad, said that there is no sufficient …

AT-KABUL: At least five civilians have been killed when their vehicle blew up by a roadside bomb in southern province of Kandahar. Kandahar governor spokesman, Samim Khpalwak, said four other people were also wounded in the blast that took place in Shahwalikot district early on Tuesday. No group including Taliban …

BIRMINGHAM: Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said. Professor Bashir Makhoul, practising artist …

AT-KABUL: Ambassador of India to Afghanistan, Manpreet Vohra, visited Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) to familiarize himself with the institute and services being rendered by the institute. He also visited the recently established diagnostic centre and surgical ward at IGICH and saw the ongoing construction of two waste …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Two young girls biked more than 100 kilometers from Bamyan province to Kabul, conveying the massage of justice to the government about the transition of the 500 kw electricity line through Bamyan province instead of Salang. Zakia Mohammadi and Golsum Zahra, two members of National Cycling …

AT-KABUL: The state-run Regional Studies Center of Afghanistan urged the government to support it for further progress. “We face shortage of budget, and the government is required to support us to have capability for further researches in the future,” said Rafiullah Niazi, head of the center, in a ceremony marking …

AT-KABUL: As many as 152 Afghan students will soon leave for India to pursue higher education at the Indian universities, enjoying scholarships provided by New Delhi. “India provides Afghan government 1,000 scholarships in bachelor degree, where 152 selected students including male and female will leave for India next week,” Indian …

AT-KABUL:  Fifty three Taliban militants were killed and 20 others injured as the result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. In a statement Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of …

WASHINGTON: Over seventy prominent scholars and activists, including Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to visit with Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, and to announce concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima this Friday after the Group of Seven economic summit in Japan. American …