Kabul: At least 17 police personnel were killed and five wounded when Taliban insurgents staged an ambush against their position in western Farah province on Sunday evening, officials said Monday. Ministry of Interior Deputy General Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi in a press conference on Monday said a police convoy was en …
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President Ashraf Ghani’s government has announced formation of a new peace team comprising eleven members led by Chief of Staff Salam Rahimi for seeking and initiating peace talks with Taliban and other resistance and opposition groups and individuals as well. Some of the team members already enrolled and having active …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Kingdom on Monday announced a new aid package of £25 million of live-saving assistance to thousands of drought-hit Afghans. International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announcing the aid, said: “UK will provide vital food, shelter and clean water to Afghans affected by one of the worst …
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KABUL: On the international day for elimination of violence against women, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan on Sunday embarked upon a 16-day campaign against gender-based violence. UNAMA in a statement called on all people to respect, promote and protect the rights of women and girls to end violence against …
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KABUL: A protest that was staged earlier on Sunday over the arrest of a local commander Alipoor turned violent after demonstrators ran amok and set some police outposts on fire in Western Kabul. A spokesman for the Kabul Police, Basir Mujahid, said that hundreds of ethnic Hazaras rallied from Dasht-e-Barchi …
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Kabul: At least 54 insurgents were killed and 40 others wounded in military offensives by security forces in northern Kunduz province, officials said Sunday. Afghan forces with support of NATO forces launched an offensive in Kunduz and killed at least 54 militants and wounded 40 others over past three days, …
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KABUL: Former national security advisor Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta said Sunday that terrorism is a state instrument which Pakistan uses against Afghanistan and India and that the unscrupulous neighbour had asked Kabul years before to cut ties with New Delhi as precondition for political engagement. Spanta made his remarks during …
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KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock on Sunday said that eight water irrigation canals have been inaugurated in northern Balkh province. The construction work of eight irrigation canals for agriculture lands completed and inaugurated in Balkh province. The canal construction work cost a sum of afn 106.5 million, said …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The NATO Chief has expressed his concern over come back of the Taliban terrorist group if the foreign troops leave the country. “If we leave, Taliban will come back,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said speaking at Mediterranean Dialogues Conference in Rome. “The cost of leaving is higher …
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Couple of days back, three worst kinds of terror acts occurred. One deadly in Khost province of Afghanistan, two happened at two different places of Pakistan. In Khost we lost a number of our brave Afghan soldiers and over 20 injured, while in a bomb explosion in Aurakzai Agency over …
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