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AT-KABUL: As many as 36 people – most of them children – have been killed and dozens other received injuries in aerial operations carried out by the Afghan forces helicopters following multiple rockets and firing heavy machineguns during an open-air ‘dashtar bandi’ religious ceremony next to a madrassa where hundreds …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Interior said Monday it was working hard to free the Indian engineers kidnapped Sunday by Taliban along with their Afghan interpreter in the northern province of Baghlan. The ministry spokesman, NajibDanesh said that police would use any possible way to free the engineers. Seven Indian engineers and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Indian Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar said India is focusing on people-oriented development in the war-ridden Afghanistan. As per a press release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday, MJ Akbar attended an international conference in Tajikistan themed on Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism on May …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani reiterated that the legislative and presidential elections would be held timely, with the first in October and the latter in April next year. Ghani’s comments come while the armed opposition groups have recently intensified reactions to the government’s preparedness for the two elections, targeting voter registration …

KABUL: Foreign donors have flooded Afghanistan with more money than it can absorb, exacerbating corruption and fuelling the drawn-out conflict, US independent auditor John Sopko has said in an interview with AFP. The comments by the US government’s special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR) followed the recent stinging assessment …

The dilemma of tinted vehicles is the new controversy. Following a recent row of terrorist activities, it is feared that terrorists are carried in tinted cars. Amid the uncertainty, law enforcement has begun a marathon crackdown on vehicles with heavily tinted windows to take illegal and suspicious vehicles off the …

AT-KABUL: Gunmen in northern Baghlan province on Sunday morning abducted six Indians working in a power company, provincial authorities said. The Indian employees were abducted while they were traveling to an under-construction electricity sub-station in Khwaja Alwan district, said provincial governor’s spokesperson. Mohammad Haqmal confirmed that the abducted Indians were …

AT-Kabul: More than 9.9 million children are expected to get vaccinations against polio across the country within one week as part of a major health campaign by the government, according to officials. The ministries of public health and education on Sunday unveiled a second round of National Immunization Days (NIDS) …

AT-KABUL: An explosion in a mosque in the eastern Khost province on Sunday killed at least 14 people and wounded 36, local authorities said, marking a rise in election-induced violence. The mosque was being used as a voter registration site. An explosion hit ‘Yaqobi’ mosque at a time when locals …

AT-KABUL: A roadside bomb on Sunday claimed the lives of at least seven civilians and left another wounded in northern Faryab province, officials said. Faryab Governor Spokesman Jawid Bedar said that at least seven civilians were killed after a roadside mine went off early in the morning somewhere in Almar …