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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Counter-Narcotics-Police (CNP) has arrested 11 drug runners in the past one week, security officials said on Wednesday. CNP has apprehended 11 smugglers through different crackdown and handed over them to Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) for further criminal proceedings, said a statement issued by the CJTF. It …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Halima Sadat, the provincial council members of Jawzjan province on Tuesday told local media that heavy snowfalls have taken the lives of 47 people, following no access to health facilities and proper shelters. “People are facing lack of proper shelters, where heavy snowfalls also cut off access …

Daesh emergence, and US incompetence on war on terror is behind Moscow’s interference in Afghanistan: Rana Think Tank By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Political experts on Tuesday in a monthly meeting of the Rana Think Tank talked over Russia’s role in Afghanistan and toward what Moscow is striving to achieve? The experts …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that its operatives have arrested one terrorist linked to Haqqani terrorist network in eastern Nangarhar province. In a statement issued from NDS, it said the terrorist was identified as Ismail, alias, Yasin. He was detained in a special operation carried …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces had repelled Taliban’s attack on Sangin district of Helmand province, in which 19 insurgent were killed and 24 others received injuries, official said on Tuesday. “Taliban’s insurgents on late Monday, carried out an armed and coordinate attack on security posts in Sangin district, however, Afghan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 20 loyalists of the Islamic State, aka, Daesh terrorist group were killed in a premature bomb explosion in southern Zabul province of the country, officials said on Monday. Local official said that the incident took place on Sunday evening in Arghandab district. Provincial Police Chief, …

AT-MEHTARLAM: Afghan women on Monday in a gathering asked that they want to play a vital role in all aspect of society, including to the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process. At an UN-backed event on women’s participation in peace and sustainable development, community leaders and government representatives gathered …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday termed insecurity and the ongoing conflict as a core obstacle ahead of its aid delivery to the needy family in 2016. “Insecurity and ramp up conflicts has drastically impeded delivery of the humanitarian aids all over the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 80 Taliban insurgents were detained and three gunmen were killed in northern Baghlan and Jawzjan Northern provinces, officials said on Monday. Mohammad Reza Ghafoori, the Jawzjan governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News security forces detained the militants, headed by Mullah Sheen Gul, as they tried …

Former president Hamid Karzai has urged US President Donald Trump to honour his campaign promise of dismantling terrorist camps in Pakistan. Karzai confirmed receiving letters from Barack Obama in 2012, when the outgoing US leader promised degrading terror safe havens in Pakistan, particularly for the Haqqani group and Lashkar-i-Taiba. In …