Even as India celebrated five years of being polio-free on Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polio vaccination centre in neighbouring Pakistan and killed 15 people, mostly cops, there to accompany health workers setting out to give children polio drops. India’s last wild polio case was reported …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An Indian citizen Ayaz Sultan, who disappeared on October 30, 2015, has purportedly joined the Islamic State, also known as Daesh group in Afghanistan, The Hindu an Indian newspaper reported on Sunday. The 23-year-old Indian citizen Ayaz Sultan has gone missing from his hometown, Malwani area in …
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AT-KABUL: At least 13 civilians have been killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted house of an Afghan official on Sunday in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said. The bomber targeted a meeting in third police district of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar today morning. …
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By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) claims that the international financial supports for extraction of Afghan mines were considerably ineffective. Earlier, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report about ineffectiveness supports of TFBSO and USAID assistance and said that $488 million cooperation in …
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AT-KABUL: At least 94 Taliban fighters were killed and 24 others wounded in different offensives in the past 24 hours, the security organs said Saturday. “Afghan National Army in collaboration with Afghan National Police and National Directorate of Security conducted joint operations against insurgents in different areas of Nangarhar, Laghman, …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmad Shekib Mustaghani, on Saturday said that Afghanistan is expecting positive outcome from the quadrilateral meeting held between representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China. Hinting to the commitment promised by the four countries in the quadrilateral meeting, …
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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the Friday’s attack on the residence of an Afghan consulate official in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The consulate official, Humayun Yousafzai, escaped unhurt in the predawn gun assault on his house in Peshawar’s posh neighborhood of University Town. The perpetrators …
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Thousands of Afghans left their country for the developed countries in search of better and secure future. The trend for asylum-seeking was introduced after the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Millions of Afghans left for Pakistan and Iran as first and easy destination and those who were well-off …
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A new political party announced formation in the weekend. The party called ‘National Front of New Afghanistan’, led by former finance minister Anwarul Haq Ahadi, is said to be the opposition party aimed to change the government. The party is said to be a coalition of six political parties with …
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VALDOSTA: One of two Afghan student airmen who went missing from Moody Air Force Base last month has been located, officials tell our Atlanta station, WXIA. Sources with Homeland Security confirm to WXIA’s Jon Shirek that the search is ongoing for the other missing man. No details were immediately available …
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