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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday celebrated 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Diplomacy. Sixty years back (in 1334 solar year) when Sardar Mohmmad Naim Khan was the foreign minister, the Institute of Diplomacy was inaugurated in foreign ministry and has so far graduated …
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AT-KABUL: Six militants, loyal to the Islamic State, known as Daesh, were killed in a US drone strike in the Haska Mina district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. “A commander of the Daesh was killed along with his five fighters in a drone strike,” provincial spokesman …
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