AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday. A policeman stationed at the check-post was killed in the attack. Local officials said that another policeman was injured in the attack. The provincial police spokesman Zia Durrani said …
Read More »MoCN stresses on national mobilization against drugs
AT-KABUL: Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) on Tuesday stressed on national mobilization against narcotics and drug addiction. The Minister of Counter Narcotics Salamat Azimi said that currently 1.5 million youth are addicted to drugs in Afghanistan. Thus, she said that youth should be mobilized against narcotics and drug addiction. Talking …
Read More »Govt urged to reopen Kabul-Kandahar highway
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga (MJ) on Tuesday urged the government to reopen the important Kabul-Kandahar highway while eliminating the insurgents who blocked the road which connects the southern provinces with the center and east of the country. Shir Muhammad Akhundzada, a senator from Kandahar, said that there are hundreds …
Read More »Govt urged to reopen Kabul-Kandahar highway
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga (MJ) on Tuesday urged the government to reopen the important Kabul-Kandahar highway while eliminating the insurgents who blocked the road which connects the southern provinces with the center and east of the country. Shir Muhammad Akhundzada, a senator from Kandahar, said that there are hundreds …
Read More »Senate blames US for terrorism in Afghanistan
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday alleged the United States of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan despite calling itself a belligerent force against terrorism and an ally of the war-hit Afghanistan. The senators said that the US was supporting Pakistan which is fueling insurgency in Afghanistan. They said that Washington’s …
Read More »70 militants killed in Ghazni
AT-KABUL: At least 70 Taliban militants have been killed and 40 others wounded in a clash between Taliban and Afghan forces in Ghazni’s capital on Tuesday, official said. The deputy provincial governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi said that clashes between Taliban and security forces erupted in Noghi, Qarabaagh and Spandi areas …
Read More »Media warn to boycott Taliban if harmed journalists, media organizations
AT-KABUL: In the aftermath of the Taliban’s threat to two private TV channels, Afghan media warned to boycott the Taliban’s news, if the group harmed journalists and media organizations. The Taliban militants labeled Tolo TV and 1TV as ‘propaganda networks’. They declared the television networks and their staffers as legitimate …
Read More »International, regional pressure pushed Pakistan to support peace process: HPC
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) both regional and international pressure pushed Pakistan to offer its support for the peace process of Afghanistan. The HPC Advisor for International Affairs, Muhammad Ismail Qasimyar, said that Pakistan should take some practical step in this regard. This comes at a time that Pakistani …
Read More »The fall of Kunduz: Should India help Afghanistan militarily?
Over the past few weeks, Kunduz, a province in northern Afghanistan, has broken through the global news cycles as Taliban fighters overran the region and took control in certain crucial sectors. This was the first time in more than a decade the terror outfit had managed to break through into …
Read More »Kunduz fact finding team starts work
Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The fact finding commission started its work on Monday to investigate the reasons behind fall of Kunduz city to the Taliban. The former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and former minister of education Farooq Wardak are leading the fact finding team. Talking to a press conference, Saleh said …
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