AT-KABUL: Taliban fighters have killed at least 12 people, after kidnapping more than 220 passengers from several busses on the Kabul-Kunduz highway in northern Afghanistan, official sources told Afghanistan Times. Tens of Taliban fighters with light and heavy weapons early in the morning on Tuesday established temporary check points in …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Islamabad Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal in a meeting with Pakistan prime minister’s advisor Sartaj Aziz, offered his best wishes for rapid recovery to prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who will undergo an open-heart surgery in London today (Tuesday), Afghan embassy in Pakistan said in media statement. …
Read More »
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that three terrorists linked with Haqqani network were arrested in southern Logar province. A press statement issued here NDS said that it is operatives succeeded to arrest three terrorists through an operation in Sarghonda village of Khoshi district in Logar …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, told newsmen in Charsadda district that Kabul-Islamabad relations may become more inauspicious after the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. Mansour was killed in a US drone strike on May 21 in Pakistani province of Balochistan. Sherpao …
Read More »
AT-KABUL: Two Pakistani women, loyal to the Islamic State known as Daesh, were arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said, as they were transferring classified documents to the group. The National Security and Defence Forces arrested the suspected women in Kot district, provincial government’s media office said on Monday. The …
Read More »
AT-KABUL: At least 29 insurgents were killed by the airstrikes targeted their sanctuaries in the northern province of Baghlan and southern Kandahar, security official said on Monday. Ministry of Defence said in a statement that 18 militants were killed in Baghan-e-Markzai district of the Baghlan province. In addition to that, …
Read More »
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The work for the war-ruined Darul Aman Palace reconstruction officially began. “The Darul Aman ruined palace is a historical Afghan palace, which will be rebuilt by the government budget,” President Ashraf Ghani said at a ceremony held Monday for the palace reconstruction. Ghani said that the reconstruction …
Read More »
AT-KABUL: A notorious commander of the Islamic State known as Daesh, along with his three associates were killed in an airstrike in central Wardak province, security official said on Monday. Briefing newsmen, Ministry of Defence spokesman, Dawlat Waziri said that the airstrike targeted Daesh commander and his bodyguard on Syedabad …
Read More »
By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Businessmen and entrepreneurs face serious threat of abduction and murder, the Afghanistan National Entrepreneurs Board, adding that 24 businessmen had been kidnapped who had killed eight in the past two months. Head of the board Rahimuddin Hajji Agha said Monday that businessmen and entrepreneurs were unable …
Read More »
AT-KABUL: Two senior Taliban leaders including nine insurgents were killed in a conflict in the southern Uruzgan province, security official said on Sunday. The senior Taliban leaders are included the group’s designated provincial governor, Maulavi Jan Aghan and military commission chief Asadullah, a statement from the 205th Atal Corps of …
Read More »
Afghanistan Times