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AT-KABUL: Three drug smugglers were arrested in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Tuesday. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Ghafoori, provincial police chief said 15 kilograms of heroin was seized from a wood-laden truck. The heroin was seized when the truck was stopped for a search at a security checkpoint on the …

AT-KABUL: A district police chief was killed in a Taliban attack in Laghman province, officials said Tuesday. “Inayatullah Himmat, police chief of the Do-Ab district in Nuristan province came under attack this morning while on his way home in Kabul,” said Col Mohammad Farooq, provincial police chief for the adjacent …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday donated two million Afghanis to the families suffered from natural disasters. Acting Head of Disaster Management Department of Kabul Noor Afghan Azimi said that the ANDMA donated two million Afghanis for the affected families of the natural disasters. He said that …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) is to build 14 industrial parks in the districts of Kabul province to “strengthen” the agricultural and horticultural products, head of the agency Mohammad Qurban Haqjoo said Tuesday, signing the agreement with Kabul governor Mohammad Ekram. Haqjoo said that the government would be …

AT-KABUL: The Asian Development Bank is to build a solar power station producing 40 mega watts of electricity in the Hesar Shahi deserts of Nangarhar province, an official for the bank said Monday. Fazlullah Fazli, a bank official said the project was explained to Nangarhar provincial governor Salim Kunduzi. “First, …

Peace talks with Taliban failed; HPC a symbolic body; Afghan officials lack consensus over peace with militants; women’s status will become worse after peace deal; Taliban fight for Pakistan’s interest AT-KABUL: Pakistan, regional countries, the United State and the West see their interests in war and insecurity in Afghanistan, a …

AT-KANDAHAR: Unknown gunmen gunned shot a female police officer, working for the passport office in the southern Kandahar province, provincial spokesman Samim Khapalwak said Monday. “She died on the spot,” Khapalwak said, adding that the incident took place in the PD 13 in the Kandahar city. He identified the woman …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Police Chief of the southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq, said that there was only way to get rid of insecurity and that is to reduce the militants’ hideouts on ‘foreign lands’ to rubbles. “If the United States and the international community really want to put …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The government drafted the ‘national strategy’ for the youth, an effort apparently to provide life facilities and job opportunities as well as to prevent the youth’s escape from the country. Deputy culture minister Kamal Sadat who is in charge of the youth affairs hopes the strategy …

AT-KABUL: Scores of Afghan senators on Sunday alleged Pakistan of playing double game with Afghanistan, and urged Islamabad to stop interfering into internal affairs of the country. Criticizing Pakistan for the cross Durand-Line attacks in Kunar and Nangarhar, the senators said that due to its insincerity and dual policy, Pakistan …