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AT-KABUL: At least 53 Taliban insurgents were killed and 31 others wounded in different joint clearance operations lunched by security forces in the past 24 hours across the country, ministry of defense said Tuesday. In a media statement, the ministry said the national army with the cooperation of the national …
Read More »Two heroin factories destroyed in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) carried out operations against heroin makers and destroyed two factories in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials, Special Forces of the Interior Ministry were succeeded to discover two factories of heroin in Kambo area of …
Read More »145 rockets hit Kunar; Pakistan still to shun shelling into Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In the latest shelling, Pakistani troops have fired at least 145 missiles in the two district of eastern Kunar province, local official said on Tuesday. These missiles landed in Sarkano and Khas districts of the province, no reports of human casualties yet. “So far there have been …
Read More »Karzai condoles over former MP death
AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has expressed his deepest condolences over the death of a former legislator, Babrak Shinwari who passed away due to illness. “I would like to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of the late Shinwari’s,” Karzai said in a statement, wishing …
Read More »Afghanistan RTF holds meeting in Kabul
AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) held its first meeting Monday in Kabul co-chaired by finance minister Eklil Hakimi and Shubham Chaudhuri, country director for the World Bank. “The meeting discussed aligning the support provided through the ARTF based on development objectives of the Afghanistan National Peace and Development …
Read More »189 Daesh fighters killed in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: At least 189 fighters loyal to Daesh (Islamic State) were killed and 61 others wounded during operations carried out by the security forces in the past four weeks in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial officials said Monday. A press statement issued by Ministry of Defense said that these fighters were …
Read More »FATA’s merger an act of discrimination
Pakistan holds no authority to merger as FATA was never regular part of Pakistan By Sadiq Yousufi-KABUL: It seems that high-ranking officials in Pakistan are looking toward anarchy, where despite to take bold steps to resolve the already worsened situation, created by the continued ignorance and providing sanctuaries to various …
Read More »Taliban to suffer utter defeats this spring
All efforts on card to quell insurgents’ peril: Ghani By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghanihas said that all efforts are on table to quell threat of insurgents in the upcoming year. President Ghani during inauguration of parliament session after winter recess on Monday has warned that those Taliban insurgents …
Read More »USAID launches $70m program to help schoolchildren
AT-KABUL: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in close collaboration with the Afghanistan Ministry of Education (MoE) announced Sunday the official launch of Afghan Children Read (ACR), a five-year project in Early Grade Reading (EGR) for primary grades 1 to 3. “Despite the gains made in education in …
Read More »Taliban’s shadow district chief killed in airstrike
AT-KABUL: A Taliban’s shadow district chief was killed along with his 15 fighters in an army’s airstrike conducted in the northern province of Kunduz, police sources in the province said Sunday. “The Taliban’s shadow chief for the Emam Sahib district, the group’s deputy shadow governor for the province, military officials …
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