AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 1,000 Afghan refugees were detained by Pakistani police in Punjab district of Pakistan, media reports said Saturday. Pakistani media said that around 935 Afghan refugees were arrested by Punjab police on charges of having no legal document for stay in the district. According to …

Since 9/11 the United States time and again pledged to eliminate safe sanctuaries of terrorists and make the world a better place to live in, but as a matter of fact the terrorists are still thriving vigorously, especially in South Asia as the terror outfits are not short of support …

AT-KABUL: Edible items send by the government of Turkmenistan for families affected by natural disasters and war arrived in Jawzjan province on Saturday. Turkmenistan’s consul general, Bazaar Bahi, told media-persons in Mazar-i-Sharif that at least 1,000 conflict and disaster-hit families would benefit from the assistance. He said that Ashgabat has …

AT-KABUL: As many as 21 insurgents were killed during an operation launched against anti-state elements in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. District chief Amanuddin Quraishi said on Saturday that in the two-joint day operations five security personnel were also killed. He said that dead bodies of several militants still …

AT-KABUL: Two border policemen were killed and two others injured on Saturday in a bomb blast in Jalalabad, capital city of the eastern Nangarhar province, sources said. Spokesman to the provincial governor, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told media that the bomb blast took place at 11:00 am near the Kabul terminal …

AT-LASHKARGAH: Unknown armed men killed a police check-post commander on Saturday in the capital city of Helmand province, sources said. Spokesman to the provincial police Col. Farid Ahmad Obaid told reporters that in charge of a police check-post in Lashkargah was killed in Safyan area at 12:00 noon. He said …

KABUL: Minister-designate for Finance, Muhammad Eklil Hakemi, told Wolesi Jirga that corruption has limited customs revenue but no attention was paid though it is a sustainable source of income for the country. Outlining his future plan to improve the status of revenue collection, he said that some corrupt officials in …

Evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder can be traced back to 1300BC – much earlier than previously thought – say researchers. The team at Anglia Ruskin University analysed translations from ancient Iraq or Mesopotamia. Accounts of soldiers being visited by “ghosts they faced in battle” fitted with a modern diagnosis of …

At least 15 people have been killed and 46 injured in a series of rocket attacks by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s government-held port of Mariupol, police there say. The Grad rockets hit a market in a residential area in the east of the city, the police chief said. A spokesman …

Salvage teams have begun an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea last month killing all 162 on board. However, the initial attempt was unsuccessful as ropes around the fuselage snapped. Another four bodies have been recovered, bringing the total to 69, …