AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have executed a former district chief in southern Uruzgon province, it has been reported. Reports said that the Taliban insurgents raided the house of the former chief of Khas Oruzgon district Juma Khan, and kidnapped him. He was taken to an unknown place. Spokesman …

AT-KABUL: A driver was killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in Kart-e-Naw area of Kabul city on Saturday morning. Ministry of Interior (MoI) Public Affairs Department Deputy Najeeb Danish confirmed the blast. He said the suicide attacker was on foot and detonated his suicide vest in Shahrak-e-Telaie …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that a suicide attack was thwarted in Kabul. The NDS in a media statement said that it has arrested two terrorists, including a would-be suicide bomber and a terror attacks planner, with a corolla vehicle full of explosives. The arrested …

AT-KABUL: Chairman of the Meshrano Jirga (Senate) said that Moscow was ready to donate 10,000 Kalashnikovs (AK47) to Kabul for Afghan police force within next 20 days. Fazul Hadi Muslimyar, who met with Russian officials recently, told Radio Azadi that Russia would deliver the donated AK47 assault rifles to the …

Activists seek prosecution of official who set Ferozi free AT-KABUL: Civil society activists, university lecturers and students on Saturday demanded of President Ashraf Ghani to prosecute those high-ranking officials who were involved in release of Khalilulah Ferozi, a Kabul Bank defaulter. In a press conference they said that those who …

By Rooh-ul-Amin Rukhsana was stoned to death. And her fiancé was flogged. The couple’s only crime was “love and elopement”, a matter of family honor. She defied marrying a man who was of her grandfather’s age and by a profession a “maulvi”. Stoning one and lashing the other shows how …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Taliban militants have burnt scores of policemen’s houses in Marja district of Helmand province, said local officials on Friday. According to the provincial officials, the Taliban torched the houses of policemen in Marja, after the Taliban captured the Camp Bazar in the district a few days ago. …

AT-KABUL: Governor of the eastern Nangarhar province, Salim Khan Kunduzi, barred government officials from depositing budgetary allocations in their personal bank accounts. The governor said that no one was authorized by the government or law of the land to deposit the budgetary allocations in their own bank accounts. The warning …

Afzal Khan Lala remembered AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani welcomed the nationalist leaders, representing Pashtuns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan provinces as well as tribal areas. Following President Ghani’s invitation to attend a reference in the memory of late Pashtun nationalist leader Afzal Khan Lala, the delegation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the other day that the Haqqani Network and the Taliban’s Quetta Council (Shura) are still operating from Pakistan against Afghanistan. During his meeting with the Turkish Ambassador, Atmar lambasted Pakistan for not taking stern action to oust the militant …