Afghanistan Times
AT-KABUL: At least four employees of the Demining Agency For Afghanistan (DAFA) were killed and one other injured when militants attacked them on Wednesday in Nahr-e-Siraj district of the southern Helmand province, a provincial official said. “The de-miners were attacked while they were conducting their normal mine clearance activities,” Omar …
Read More »Ammunition cache seized in Wardak
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Wednesday reported of the seizure of a Taliban ammunition cache in the central Wardak province, saying it was confiscated. The NDS said in a statement that its operatives managed to discover and seize the ammunition cache “belonging to the Taliban insurgents” in …
Read More »Millions of dollars needed to help vulnerable Afghans in 2016
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The government and the United Nations Humanitarian Community in Afghanistan seek an appeal of $393 million to assist needy and vulnerable people across the country in 2016. “The government and the UN humanitarian community made humanitarian response plan for 2016 to assist 3.5 million vulnerable people across …
Read More »Afghanistan is third most corrupt country: Report
By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: A new global study by Transparency International has given Afghanistan third position for in 2015. The Kabul-based Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), local partner for the organization, said Wednesday that Afghanistan scored just 11 points out of 100 and reached to rank 166 out of 168 countries …
Read More »Scores of militants killed, injured in military ops
AT-KABUL: At least 42 Taliban militants have been killed and 32 injured in a series of operations launched by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in different provinces, security officials said Wednesday. “Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched joint operations …
Read More »Seven Daesh, three Taliban insurgents arrested in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: At least seven members of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group and three Taliban militants were detained by the security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said on Wednesday. Provincial police Chief Fazl Ahmad Sherzad said: “We arrested the militants in Kot and Haska Mina districts along with their …
Read More »Islamabad blames the victim
Every country on this planet knows that Afghanistan is the worst victim of foreign influence, terrorism and extremism. Afghans are paying the cost for the war that has been imposed by the neighbors and world powers on them. It has been more than three decades but there is no end …
Read More »Is this the boy in the Messi bag shirt photo?
The mystery about the identity of the boy in the homemade football shirt that enchanted the internet appears to have been solved. BBC Trending has been told that the child who has become known as “Messi’s biggest fan” is actually five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi from a rural area in Afghanistan. This …
Read More »Desperate Afghans at home and abroad
Tens of thousands of Afghans left the country last year for Europe and thousands of others are either on their way or planning for the difficult and dangerous trip. Even the cold weather cannot prevent them. These people are from different categories of age, sex, urban, rural, poor, rich, educated …
Read More »Anti-polio drive: 34,000 children left unvaccinated in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: The deputy chief of public health department in Nangarhar province said on Tuesday that the health teams failed to vaccinate 34,000 children, under age of five, against polio. Dr Muqadesa Meraj said that last year 62,000 children were deprived of polio vaccination. In 2015, the vaccination teams failed to …
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