AT-KABUL: At least 68 Taliban insurgents including forty-two Daesh terrorists group were killed and twenty-one others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Tuesday. “The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the …
Read More »37 Daesh, al-Qaeda fighters killed by security forces
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that 37 Daesh and al-Qaeda fighters were killed during operations conducted by intelligence forces across the country in the past one week. Intelligence operatives with the cooperation of the NATO-led Resolute Support troops conducted operations against Daesh and al-Qaeda fighters in Nangarhar, …
Read More »Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls up PM Modi, condemns Uri attack
President Ghani also expressed his condolences to the families of the martyred soldiers. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Tuesday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and condemned the ‘cross border attack’ in Uri while expressing solidarity with India to eliminate the threat of terrorism. President Ghani strongly condemned the cross-border terror …
Read More »Pakhtun leaders seek mandate for talks with Afghan leaders
Pakistan’s Pakhtun nationalist leaders have decided to wage a joint struggle for bringing peace to the region, including Afghanistan, the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief says. Mahmood Khan Achakzai told a mammoth public meeting in Balochistan’s capital of Quetta late on Monday, theleaders would ask the government for a …
Read More »US airstrike leaves eight police killed in Uruzgan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least eight Afghan National Police (ANP) troops were killed in a US airstrike targeted their checkpoint in central Uruzgan province, a provincial official said on Monday. The checkpoint in the Saki area of Tirinkot, the provincial capital on the Uruzgan-Kandahar road was bombed on Sunday evening, …
Read More »Karzai meets Afghan migrants in Germany
AT-KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has met with a number of the Afghan migrants in Germany, his office said Monday. “Karzai who is for a visit in Germany, went to a school provided by the German government for the Afghan migrants,” it said in a statement. The statement added that …
Read More »NDS kills five Pakistani terrorists in Zabul
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that its operatives had killed at least five Pakistani terrorists in a Special Forces operation in southern Zabul province. “The operation was carried in Naseran village of Mizan district of the province against al-Qaeda terrorist network cell which was operating in province, …
Read More »Editorial: Fighting illiteracy
Illiteracy rate is too high in Afghanistan. The country direly needs well-educated people in different sectors to become self-sufficient as currently people of different nationalities are working here to fill the vacuum in the job market. They are employed by both private and public sectors. As a matter of fact …
Read More »CEO rejects “negative” rumors, supports peace deal with HIA
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday rejects all what he called “negative rumors” and declared support of the peace deal with the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Abdullah said that “we have no tension about peace and its result with any group.” “Our …
Read More »260 Taliban killed in Uruzgan operations
AT-KABUL: Some 260 Taliban fighters have been killed and 213 others were injured during operations in the southern province of Uruzgan, defense ministry said Monday. These insurgents were killed and wounded during the ground and air attacks by Afghan forces in the past five days, the ministry said in a …
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