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By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report on the State of World Population in 2015 and said that totally 7.4 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance and 3.4 million of them requiring critical lifesaving interventions. The report entitled “Shelter from the Storm” focused …

After the US-led coalition forces ended their combat operations last year in December, reports about emergence of Daesh or the Islamic State had surfaced. Unfortunately, the reports were not taken seriously and the authorities have turned a blind eye to emergence and spread of Daesh. Growing power of the IS …

A deputy governor in Afghanistan has made a public plea to the president on Facebook for help in fighting the Taliban. Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar wrote the message to Ashraf Ghani on the social network to say 90 soldiers had been killed in the past two days in Helmand. He warned …

AT-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of the parliament) came hard on establishment of the selection committee—a proposed body to nominate members of the two electoral bodies. It said that activities of the committee were against the law. Abdul Rauf Ebrahimi, Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, said on Saturday that establishment …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) militants have left Borka district of northern Baghlan province, said an official source. Hajji Muhammad, a representative of the district in Baghlan Provincial Council (PC), told Azadi Radio: “Daesh previously had presence in the province, but after that conflict between the group and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Efforts are underway to restrain activities of Hezb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan, said that Ministry of Interior (MoI). This comes at a time that the Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah recently expressed his deep concerns over activities of Hezb-ut-Tahrir and said that the party functioned as civil branch of terrorist …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Acting Defense Minister, Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, said that Daesh and Taliban have been receiving training at military bases of Pakistan. Pointing to the ISI, Pakistan’s spy agency, he said that the foreign intelligence agency tries to push all the insurgents to Afghanistan in order to show that …

No compromise over blood of security forces in political process: Ghani By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday assured that the government would not bargain over sacrifices of security forces for political goals. After inaugurating the Ministry of Interior’s new building, President Ghani said that the government wanted …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least six people, including a rebel, have been killed in separate incidents in northwestern Jawzjan province, said an official on Saturday. Three young civilians were killed by two Taliban motorcyclists in Kukuldash village of Faizabad district, the provincial police chief Col. Abdul Hafiz Khashi told a …

The moment on top of an Afghan mountain peak was one of bittersweet triumph for 20-year-old Shopirai Otmonkhel and her friend Zahra Karimi Nooristani, 18. The budding mountaineers from Kabul beamed with pride as they held up the Afghan flag after climbing to heights no Afghan woman had ever reached. …