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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Allegedly, a number of supporters of a member of Wolesi Jirga or (Lower House) of the Parliament did not allow Kam Air airplane to land in the central Bamyan province airport, officials said on Tuesday. “Supporters of Bamyan lawmaker, Abdul Rahman Shaidani, who missed flight from Kabul …

At least 19 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called “an appalling terrorist attack” after an Ariana Grande concert Monday night at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said. Multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials briefed by British authorities told NBC …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Unknown armed men blew up a girl school in the capital of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. Education Director Mohammad Abid Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Albiruni Primary School in Qarabaghi area was blown up on Sunday night. “The school operating in …

It is a fundamental right of every nation, including Muslim countries that its boys and girls should be able to grow up free from fear, safe from violence, and innocent of hatred. But, the problem is that war in the Muslim community has taken this right from its citizens. There …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai blamed the United States and its Western allies for holding wrong policies, saying that such policies created terrorism. In reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, Karzai said that terrorists are not staying in the Muslims’ worship places, but they are …

AT-KABUL: At least 136 militants were killed and 119 others were wounded in different 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) personnel has …

AT-KABUL: Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army launched a joint clearance operation to clear the Nerkh district of Wardak province from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan. In the joint operation 13 villages were cleared from armed Taliban in Nerkh district, said a statement issued by …

Without doubt, the importance of providing training to the Afghan security forces to protect our motherland and also to prevent the comeback of international terrorist can’t be overestimated. But that does not mean that they are not capable at the time. They lonely defeated the Taliban insurgents in their last …

By Farhad Naibkhel-Kabul: Unknown gunmen attacked Saturday night a guesthouse in Kabul city and killed a German citizen residing in and her Afghan guard, police confirmed. They took another female foreigner from the guesthouse. “The incident took place in the Police District 7 along the Darulaman road,” Najeeb Danish, a …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 20 police officers were killed and 10 others wounded in a Taliban attack on their outposts in the southern Zabul province Saturday night, provincial officials said Sunday. “Taliban terrorists attacked different checkpoints in the Shahjoi, Daichopan and Arghandab districts, in which 20 police were killed …