AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The security forces have repulsed Taliban’s complex attack on the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province, inflicting Taliban heavy casualties, local officials said on Saturday. However the Taliban claimed that they captured the district. Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, told Pajhwok Afghan News a large number …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban fighters took the control of the strategic district of Khanabad in the northern Kunduz province Saturday after a several-hour clash, said officials. “Taliban launched attacks and captured police headquarters, center of the district and a number of checkpoints in the district today morning,” said Hayatullah Amiri, …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai during his visit to India, lauded the recent statement of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding human rights situation in Balochistan. He appreciated Moid’s statement on the human rights situation in Balochistan, saying that India had every right to respond to Pakistan’s …
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AT-KABUL: At least 75 Taliban insurgents were killed and 26 others injured in different operations launched by the Afghan security forces within past 24 hours, security officials said on Saturday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that the Afghan National Army with the cooperation …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein announced in a media release the other day that Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have completed airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan for the first time in ten years. He stated, “We got the B-52 back in the …
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AT Special Report-KABUL: Afghans will celebrate 97th Independence Day on Thursday with great zeal. However, it also poses some basic questions such as: Are we independent? Where do we stand since independence in 1919? We all know the answers but prefer to dodge ourselves because we are good at running …
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AT-KABUL: The Afghan Air Force (AAF) is playing a very significant role in suppressing the anti-government armed elements across the country, a security official said. Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Gen. Dawlat Waziri, said the intentional community is paying more attention toward rehabilitation of the Afghan Air Force. “This …
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AT Special Report-KABUL: Afghans, both inside and outside of Afghanistan, celebrated the 97th Independence on Thursday with great zeal. However, we have not pondered what really independence is. Neither we are politically independent nor economically. Even we cannot think independently. The country will become independent when we are free from …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Pakistan called up Mahmood Khan Achakzai to clarify his remarks on the Pakistani military establishment. After deadly suicide blast in Quetta City of Balochistan, the leader of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Achakzai said that Pakistani intelligence agencies were spying on …
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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Tuesday its operatives arrested three loyalists terrorist of Daesh (Islamic States of Iraq and Syria) eastern Nangarhar province. A statement issued by NDS said the arrested terrorists were identified as Husian S/O Imamuldian, Zakir S/O Mohasal Khan, Abdul Qayom S/O Abdul Rahim. …
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