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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have executed a former district chief in southern Uruzgon province, it has been reported. Reports said that the Taliban insurgents raided the house of the former chief of Khas Oruzgon district Juma Khan, and kidnapped him. He was taken to an unknown place. Spokesman …

AT-KABUL: A driver was killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in Kart-e-Naw area of Kabul city on Saturday morning. Ministry of Interior (MoI) Public Affairs Department Deputy Najeeb Danish confirmed the blast. He said the suicide attacker was on foot and detonated his suicide vest in Shahrak-e-Telaie …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that a suicide attack was thwarted in Kabul. The NDS in a media statement said that it has arrested two terrorists, including a would-be suicide bomber and a terror attacks planner, with a corolla vehicle full of explosives. The arrested …

AT-KABUL: Chairman of the Meshrano Jirga (Senate) said that Moscow was ready to donate 10,000 Kalashnikovs (AK47) to Kabul for Afghan police force within next 20 days. Fazul Hadi Muslimyar, who met with Russian officials recently, told Radio Azadi that Russia would deliver the donated AK47 assault rifles to the …

Activists seek prosecution of official who set Ferozi free AT-KABUL: Civil society activists, university lecturers and students on Saturday demanded of President Ashraf Ghani to prosecute those high-ranking officials who were involved in release of Khalilulah Ferozi, a Kabul Bank defaulter. In a press conference they said that those who …

AT-KABUL: Governor of the eastern Nangarhar province, Salim Khan Kunduzi, barred government officials from depositing budgetary allocations in their personal bank accounts. The governor said that no one was authorized by the government or law of the land to deposit the budgetary allocations in their own bank accounts. The warning …

Afzal Khan Lala remembered AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani welcomed the nationalist leaders, representing Pashtuns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan provinces as well as tribal areas. Following President Ghani’s invitation to attend a reference in the memory of late Pashtun nationalist leader Afzal Khan Lala, the delegation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the other day that the Haqqani Network and the Taliban’s Quetta Council (Shura) are still operating from Pakistan against Afghanistan. During his meeting with the Turkish Ambassador, Atmar lambasted Pakistan for not taking stern action to oust the militant …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five Afghan refugees killed in the Syrian civil war by rebels were buried in Iran, media reported on Friday. The refugees were recruited by the Iranian authorities to support the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad against the west-supported rebels. According to Radio Farda, the killed Afghan mercenaries aged …

Afghani has lost its value by 11pc against American dollars and Pakistani rupee during the past four months. This depreciation has caused prices of commodities surged by 18pc and fuel by 40pc. Over the years, Afghani has seen a steadiest fall, but during the past few months, it faced a …