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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: More than 2,848 suspected drug traffickers have been arrested and large caches of narcotics busted across Afghanistan in the past 11 months, said the interior ministry on Wednesday. Counternarcotics police forces have staged 2,468 anti-drug crackdowns and arrested 2,848 drug dealers this year, said Counter Narcotics Deputy …

AT-KABUL: A group of 14 rejected Afghan asylum seekers who were deported from Germany arrived in Kabul on Tuesday night, Deutsche Welle reported on Wednesday, saying they were flown back to Kabul from Munich. The deportations happened despite the Foreign Office submitting no fresh security assessment for Afghanistan. In Berlin, …

AT-KABUL: The provincial government of southern Kandahar province on Wednesday inaugurated three development projects worth 60 million Afghanis in Dand district, an official said. The development projects, comprising roads construction, repairing of schools and a retaining wall were inaugurated by deputy governor, Abdul Hanan Munib and the inauguration ceremony was …

AT-KABUL: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has emphasized on the government and the US forces to initiate a proper investigation into the alleged civilian casualties occurred during a military offensive by the Special Force Unit in southern Kandahar province between January 31 and February 1. In a statement issued on …

AT-KABUL: The newly-appointed governor for Samangan province took over office from his predecessor on Tuesday according to the Independent Directorate of Local Governance, just a day after the ousted governor refused a government order to step down and hinged his defiance on a final decision of Jamiat-e Islami party. Abdul …

AT-Kabul: Concerned over the ongoing political uncertainty, political figures and analysts have faulted Trump’s counterproductive strategy in Afghanistan and raised doubts about his willingness for peace. They believed that peace will be impossible until the U.S. has a military and intelligence presence in Afghanistan. At a monthly session of the …

AT-KABUL: As the much-orchestrated milestone trans-Afghanistan pipeline is about to be embarked upon, Afghanistan is pondering eliminating the obstacles in the path of its implementation and devising pragmatic ways of beefing up security for the project. Wais Barmak minister of interior in a session on Tuesday called on the defense …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s top peace authority has called on tribal leaders and a nationwide struggle to achieve a durable peace and alleviate the burden placed on the people. Head of the High Peace Council, Mohammad Karim Khalili said on Tuesday that if all Afghans get united, they can rescue country from …

AT-KABUL: According to the Afghan Constitution, Ghani-Abdullah’s government of national unity will end in 93 days, senior members of a political movement said Monday at a press conference in Kabul. Jombesh-e Guzar, a political party which announced its existence on May 2017, reasons that based on the Constitution the presidential …

In the wake of the unfettered political disarray, the Afghan unity government has found itself in a bind that could only be circumvented if a ‘paradigmatic politic of compromise and negotiation diplomacy’ is concocted; defiance against the government’s writ has taken a whole new shape to itself ever since a …