AT-KABUL: Urging Pakistan to resolve all outstanding disputes with Afghanistan and India, Chief of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan on Tuesday said that peace was impossible to achieve without having friendly relations with the neighboring countries. Addressing a ceremony in connection with the death anniversary of his …
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By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Afghanistan Protection and Stability Council (APSC), the country’s major opposition party, called on the National Unity Government to take practical steps for protection of journalists and freedom of speech. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, the spokesman of APSC Massoud Trishtwal said that journalists …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that six terror groups were busted in different provinces within the past two weeks. In a press statement issued here, the intelligence agency said that its operatives have successfully broken up six terror groups during crackdowns in Logar, Kandahar, Helmand, …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: To improve agricultural productivity and profitability, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has laid foundation stone of 13 agricultural laboratories here on Tuesday. Construction of the laboratories will complete within next one year at a total cost of one million USD, provided by the World …
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AT-KABUL: The provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP) Afrasiab Khattak said that the report about the death of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah is part of a campaign in Pakistan to externalize terrorist problem. Pakistani media claimed that Fazlullah was killed in a US drone strike in …
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AT-KABUL: At least 12 Taliban militants were killed and five others injured as Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) widens crackdowns on the insurgents. Ministry of Defense in a media statement on Tuesday said that Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched …
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KABUL: A cop defected to the Taliban has killed 10 policemen in a remote check-post in southern Uruzgan province, an official told Afghanistan Times. “Last night, the infiltrator opened fire on his ten fellow policemen and killed all of them, before joining the Taliban in Chinarto district of Uruzgan province,” …
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Daesh, also known as Islamic State, controls around a third of Syria and Iraq. The terrorist group has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. It has also destroyed historical sites, beheaded people and slaved young girls and children. Daesh evil tentacles in Afghanistan are seen in …
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KABUL: A two-day meeting on peace and stability in Afghanistan in Doha has called for an immediate end to military confrontation mustvia political cooperation within a legitimate framework. Organized by the Canadian Nobel Peace Award-winning NGO Pugwash, the non-official event on January 23-24 was attended by approximately 55 participants, who …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said its operatives arrested seven terrorists in the southeastern Logar province. “Intelligence operatives arrested the rebels in a joint operation with national army and police in Azra district,” it said in a statement. Three caches of ammunitions were seized in the district, in …
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