AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned military operations and aerial raids on villages of the provinces of Nuristan, Khost, Faryab and Uruzgan, in which several civilians were killed in injured. The former president denounced the attacks as anti-human and anti-Islamic crimes, asking the Afghan and foreign troops to be …
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AT-KABUL: The members of senate and law experts had negative reactions to President Ashraf Ghani’s order over forming a special investigation department. Senators believe such department would cause the creation of parallel offices that would help increase of corruption. Maulavi Gholam MohayyoddinMonsef, a member of senate said Monday that the …
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AT-KABUL: At least 81 militants were killed and 36 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal …
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AT-KABUL: Despite the approval of women and children’s harassment prohibition law by the president, there are reports of women and girls being harassed, while police ignores to listen to their complaints. Latifa Soltani, an official of the Independent Human Rights Commission, said Monday that women and girls who refer to …
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AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai met with Alice Wells, US principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, in his office on Sunday. The peace process, parliamentary election and the situation in the region were discussed. Karzai told the visiting United States delegation that no …
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Election is the principal pillar of democracy with which citizens of a democratic nation practice their franchise and throw themselves into their fate. In the wake of the overthrow of the Taliban and the institutionalization of democracy, Afghanistan too became a pro-democratic country, with a pyramid of shortcomings though. Elections …
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AT-KABUL: Around 400,000 Afghan refugees have returned to the war-torn country over the past six months, Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Sunday. Some 377,358 Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan and Iran in 2018, said a press statement issued by MoRR. Returnees entered Afghanistan through Spin Boldak, …
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A US service member has been killed and two others injured in what appears to be an insider attack in Afghanistan, Nato says. The attack took place in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a statement from the Nato-led Resolute Support mission said. It was not immediately clear who carried out the …
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AT-KABUL: Civilians have been the worst victim of ongoing war in the past years and it’s looming as on Sunday five members of a single family were killed in an operation conducted by Afghan Special Forces in southeastern Khost province, official said. The Special Forces raided a civilian house in …
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AT-KABUL: The 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan military has taken delivery of its three Black Hawk helicopters as part of a planned to boost up capabilities of the security forces. It has been reported that US plans to supply a total of 159 Black Hawks to Afghanistan in the …
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