Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Two police vehicles and five shops were destroyed in a bomb blast in central Logar province, an official said. The deputy police chief Col. Qari Mohammad Wara told media that the incident occurred before noon the other day in Khezar bazaar, targeting a convoy of the Afghanistan …
Read More »Taliban kills six cops
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least six Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in Behark district of northern Badakhshan province. The governor’s spokesman Ahmad Naveed Frotan said that the killed policemen were having dinner when the terrorist attacked them in Surkham area of Baharak district the …
Read More »Three injured in Kandahar blast
AT-KABUL: Three persons were injured on Sunday seriously in a suicide blast in Kandahar province, the provincial government said. Spokesman to the provincial governor Samim Khpalwak told media that a terrorist detonated an explosive filled car near a security check-post in Daman district at 11:30 a.m. He said three persons …
Read More »Taliban warns villagers in Ghazni to leave homes
AT-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have warned hundreds of villages in Deh Yak district of the restive Ghazni province to leave their homes. Residents of Rabat Sangi village said the militant group has blocked all roads leading to the village which multiplied their problems and put their life at risk. The …
Read More »Blaming the victim
The snakes once fed and nurtured by Pakistan in its backyard have turned against their master now. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which was given free hand in the tribal belt had been alleged of attacking the Pakistan Air Force base camp on Friday in Badaber, Peshawar. May be the TTP …
Read More »43 Afghan citizens detained by Pakistani forces
More than 40 Afghan citizens have been detained in separate raids by Pakistani security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab provinces. In KP’s garrison town of Kohat, security forces seized a huge quantity of weapons and also arrested 96 suspects, including 21 Afghans late on Saturday. The operation was …
Read More »Afghanistan denies its soil was used for attack on PAF base
KABUL: Afghanistan on Saturday strongly rejected the allegation that Friday’s attack on the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base in the northwestern city of Peshawar was planned and controlled from Afghanistan. “We vehemently reject as baseless claims that the attack in Peshawar was planned or controlled from Afghanistan,” the president’s deputy …
Read More »Resolving Afghan refugees’ problems
Afghans, living in a refugee, have become hopeless as the current and previous governments failed to take notice of their desperate conditions and repatriate them honorably. The refugees seemed exhausted after prolonged waiting as the relevant ministry lacks the capacity and will to protect their rights and speed up work …
Read More »NDS arrests two target killers in Herat
AT-KABUL: Oppertives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested two people for allegedly killing government officials, ulema and tribal elders in western Herat province. The NDS in a press statement said that the arrested men have recently killed a staffer of the spy agency in Pashtun Zarghoon district and …
Read More »Drone strike kills 5 IS militants in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: At least five Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in a drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province, said an official source. Hazrat Husain Mashriqiwal, spokesman for police in Nangarhar, said that foreign troops carried out the drone strike in Melwae area of Nazian district the other day. In …
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