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AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga of parliament on Saturday expressed deep concerns over the Daesh militants’ threats in Nangarhar, Kunar and Nooristan provinces, calling on the security officials to chalk out necessary plans for rooting out of the militants. Lawmakers claimed that Daesh was a great security threat in the eastern …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The number of Local Police casualties fell this year by 40 percent, Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. “Although war was not decreased, but the local police casualties declined in the past four months of current year, said an interior ministry official Salem Ehsas. “The casualties of …

Large number of civilians were killed and injured during the month of Ramadan, Karzai said AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai in an addressing to the people on the occasion of the Eid festival has called the ongoing war in the country “an imposed war by the aliens”, in which Afghans …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that a terror plot thwarted in southeastern Paktika province. Intelligence operatives succeeded to arrest a suicide bomber named Abdulwali through special crackdown in Urgon district of Paktika, it said in a stsatement. The suicide bomber was arrested actually with explosives …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani visited the inured policemen of the recent suicide attacks in Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital and ordered the ministry of public health to shift those injured policemen whom their treatment is impossible inside the country to abroad. Presidential officials said in a statement that Ghani asked …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan government will call on Warsaw summit to bring pressure on Pakistan to take right decision in anti-terror war in the country. The upcoming NATO summit is to be held in early July in Warsaw. “It will be impossible not to point at Pakistan’s role when you …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 10 senior security officials of the Ministry of Interior were under investigation over deadly Thursday attack in the capital Kabul in which dozens of newly trained police cadets were killed and wounded. Sources in the Ministry of Interior said that these officials are under investigation …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that Taliban’s bomb making facility was busted in northern Balkh province. Intelligence operatives succeeded to discover and bust Taliban’s mine production center through a crackdown in Robat village of Chemtal district in Balkh province, said NDS. Twomine makers were also …

AT-KABUL: Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Sunday said that 121 drug runners were arrested in the first quarter of solar year, said officials. Counter Narcotics Police apprehended 117 smugglers through different crackdown in various provinces in the first quarter of this year, said CJTF. After primary investigation the detained …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Chain’s first military shipment aid reached to Afghanistan on Sunday and was formally delivered to government in Kabul military airport. The package included transport equipment for the Afghan security forces and ammunition for light weapons. “Following mutual agreement, this is the first Chines military package donates for …