Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of unknown armed men have torched at least 12 mosques in the past week in northern Baghlan province, local officials said on Wednesday. TOLOnews quoted Abdul Rasheed Bashir, the acting police chief of Baghlan, as saying that the Taliban militants had hand in the incidents. …
Read More »“Taliban don’t have the capacity to beat Afghan security forces”
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Resolute Support Mission and the US forces commander in Afghanistan Gen. John F. Campbell has said that there is no way that the Taliban can defeat the Afghan national security forces. He made the remarks at a session held at Brooking Institution at Washington DC on …
Read More »Police perplexed over arrest orders by Abdullah on arresting Mullah Omar mourners
Fatiha for Mullah Omar: Kabul police confuse over arrests order AT-KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah has ordered the capital police to arrest those government officials who the mourned the death of Mullah Omar and offered Fatiha however the police seemed perplexed as the orders do not identify …
Read More »Women casualties up by 23pc: UNAMA
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Wednesday released a report documenting 559 women civilian casualties—revealing 23 percent increase in the first six months of 2015 across the country. Director of Human Rights Unit of UNAMA, Danielle Bell, said that the UNAMA protection of civilian …
Read More »‘Thanks for saving my life’: World Blood Donor Day observed
By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: With donation of blood by tens of sportsmen and volunteers, the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday commemorated the World Blood Donor Day campaign (WBDD) with its international partners here in the Central Blood Bank. The theme of this year for blood campaign is “Thank you …
Read More »56 Taliban, IS members killed in Nangarhar drone strikes
At least 56 Taliban and Islamic State (IS) fighters have been killed in a barrage of drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, said the unmanned aircraft fired a volley of missiles on hideouts in the Gogori area of Haska …
Read More »Abbas Stanikzai replaces Tayyab Agha as Qatar office head
KABUL: Mullah Sher Mohammad Agha Abbas Stanikzai has replaced Tayyab Agha as Taliban’s Qatar office head, a media report said on Wednesday. Tayyab Agha resigned the position in protest over Mullah Omar’s death being kept under wraps, calling it a historic blunder. He also vehemently criticised Mullah Mansoor’s appointment as …
Read More »Afghan govt should play its own game
The death report of Mullah Omar, the figurehead of the Taliban, has not only flared up tensions among the Taliban and broken out a deepening schism, but at the same time moved the Upper House of the Parliament of Pakistan to seek policy statement from the government on at least …
Read More »Gunmen set two mosques ablaze in Baghlan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of unknown gunmen set ablaze two mosques in northern Baghlan province the other day, said an official source. Quoting an official source, TOLOnews reported that the incident took place in Amir Sher Ali area of Dand-i-Ghori district of the province. The source said that the …
Read More »Eight militants killed in Nangarhar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as eight Taliban militants have been killed in clearance operations launched by Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, said a local security official. Noman Atefi, a spokesman for 201st Selab military corps, said that their clearance operations against the Taliban militants are going on …
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