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By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Police said Tuesday that expats including foreign journalists can demand security services, if they think to face threats in the capital of Kabul. Chief of criminal investigations at Kabul police Feraidon Ubaidi told Afghanistan Times that for better security of the foreign citizens, Kabul police ordered …

AT-KABUL: 23 Taliban fighters were killed and 11 others were wounded in different operations within past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. Defense ministry said in statement said that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted joint operations against insurgents …

AT-: Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai led an inter-ministerial delegation—consisting of senior civilian and military officials—to visit Islamabad, Pakistan, at the invitation of Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs. The Deputy Foreign Minister, accompanied by Dr. Omar Zakhiwal, Special Envoy of the President and …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the suicide attacks in Kabul and Badakhshan provinces that killed and injured a number of foreign citizens and innocent people. Presidential palace in a statement denounced Monday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul where 14 Nepalese were killed, nine people (five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians) …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Some 340 Afghan refugees had been detained during the past three days in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police source said. “Police have detained 340 Afghan refugees during the past three days,” Abbas Majid Marwat, Senior Superintendent of Police of Peshawar was quoted by Geo TV, as saying. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Monday gave vote of confidence to the nominee for defense ministry Abdullah Habibi, chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, and member of the High Council for Supreme Court Mohammad Zaman Sangari. Stanekzai achieved 161 votes out of …

AT-KABUL: Nai—an organization supporting open media in Afghanistan said Monday that 10 cases of violence against journalists had been registered within past 20 days. The organization termed the ongoing month was the most violent for journalists. Seddiqullah Tawhidi, head of the watchdog said that two murders, four beatings and torture …

AT-KABUL:At least 14 Nepalese citizens working for a security company were killed, nine people including five Nepalese and four Afghan civilians were injured on Monday morning when a suicide bomber targeted a mini bus carrying the Nepalese guards in Kabul city, officials said. The attacker rammed into the minibus in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Six civilians were shot injured by the Taliban insurgents over an allegation of breaking Ramadan fast in western Herat province, governor spokesman, Jilani Farhad told Afghanistan Times. The shooting took place in Obe district of the province. “Health condition of the shot people are not critical,” he …

AT-KABUL: Britain is to donate 25 million Pounds to Afghan government for Afghanistan Investment Climate Program (AICP). “The AICP will help improve regulations and government capacity; improve investor protection; develop risk-sharing instruments such as Public Private Partnerships (PPP), and provide loans to women entrepreneurs and improve the legal status of …