AT-KABUL: Kabul Police on Monday said that 15 suspected criminals were arrested in Kabul province within past 24 hours. In a press statement issued here the Kabul Police said the arrested persons were accused of murder, kidnapping and robbery. The suspects were held in 10th, 12th and 13th police jurisdictions …

AT-KABUL: As many as 58 armed militants were killed and 23 others injured in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here the Ministry of Interior said that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) has …

AT-KABUL: A suicide car bomb rocked southern Helmand province on Monday afternoon, killing five persons including the bomber on the spot and injuring four others including two policemen, a security official said. “A terrorist riding an explosive-borne car blew it up when stopped in a police checkpoint outside provincial capital …

GHAZNI: Two women were killed and four others, including a newly born baby, wounded in a roadside bombing in the Taliban-infested Andar district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. Shafiq Nang, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victims were members of a family returning home …

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani is likely to travel to New Delhi in early April on his first official trip to India, at a time when Afghan peace efforts are regaining momentum. Ghani, who met Prime Minister Modi at the SAARC summit in Kathmandu in November, would visit Delhi during the …

KABUL: More than 13,160 foreign troops from 40 countries are currently training Afghan security forces as part of NATO’s Resolute Support mission, officials said on Monday. Additionally, another 3,161 American service-members are conducting counter-terrorism operations in different parts of Afghanistan, one US Army official told Pajhwok Afghan News. Under new …

Our country is one of the terrible lands. Violence, contradictions, justice denials, no equitable distribution of wealth, corruption and a constant poor-rich standoff are some of the social, economic and political factors that have turned the lives of millions of Afghans into the hell. Above all there is a breed …

AT-KABUL: Jihdi leader Ustad Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf on Sunday said that no one can throw away Mujahedeen from political scene. Talking on the occasion of 36th anniversary of uprising of the people of Heart province against the Soviet Union, Ustad Sayyaf said that  some group of people are con …

AT-KABUL: Attorneys came hard on the government for its decision about asking them to take a talent test to prove their capabilities. Presidential Palace recently urged some 300 staffers of the Attorney General Office (AGO) to take a test to prove their qualification. Tens of attorneys staged a protest demonstration …

AT-KABUL: A commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been killed along with nine other fighters of the terrorist organization in southern Helmand province, said the Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Sunday. General Zahir Azimi, spokesman for the MoD, tweeted that a commander of ISIS, Hafiz …