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AT-KABUL: At least 12 Taliban militants were killed and five others injured as Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) widens crackdowns on the insurgents. Ministry of Defense in a media statement on Tuesday said that Afghan National Army (ANA), the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) launched …

KABUL: A cop defected to the Taliban has killed 10 policemen in a remote check-post in southern Uruzgan province, an official told Afghanistan Times. “Last night, the infiltrator opened fire on his ten fellow policemen and killed all of them, before joining the Taliban in Chinarto district of Uruzgan province,” …

KABUL: A two-day meeting on peace and stability in Afghanistan in Doha has called for an immediate end to military confrontation mustvia political cooperation within a legitimate framework. Organized by the Canadian Nobel Peace Award-winning NGO Pugwash, the non-official event on January 23-24 was attended by approximately 55 participants, who …

KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai on Monday flew to China to attend a conference on the Afghan peace process, his office said. “The former president was formally invited by the Shanghai Institute for International Studies to attend the peace conference,” his spokesman Yousuf Sahar said. He said Karzai would speak …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Radio-Television Union (ARTU) on Monday strongly condemned the attack on Kabora production staff, asking the government to form a special unit for ensuring media security across the country. “The media outlets call on the government to establish a special police unit to ensure their security …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) called terrorism the common threat to both Pakistan and Afghanistan, urging Islamabad to pave grounds for a joint “offensive” with Kabul in a bid to eliminate terrorism in the region. Calling the terrorists as enemies to the two countries, the party secretary …

AT-KABUL: Pakistan police have detained more than 50 Afghan migrants in a search operation in different parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani media reported Monday. Pakistani security forces carried out raids in Karkhano Market, Ashnaghari and Qazi Qala, arresting 159 people, including 55 Afghans. Police have said that the …

AT-KABUL: Police have detained 32 smugglers of drug and alcohol in different provinces, the Criminal Justice Task Force said Monday. “Police identified and arrested the smugglers in Kabul, Herat, Uruzgan, Zabul, Parwan, Helmand, Nangarhar, Faryab, Paktia, Kapisa, Logar, Kunduz, Jawzjan and Samangan provinces,” it said in a statement. “More than …

KABUL: The former chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that Pakistan was not respecting territorial integrity of Afghanistan. In his speech at the fourth round of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Bilateral Dialogue held here on Saturday, Amrullah Saleh said that last month the ex-president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf singled …

AT-KABUL: Seven people were killed Monday and five other injured when a group of Taliban fighters attacked a police outpost in southern Kandahar province, a provincial official said. The attack took place in the Spin Boldak district, bordering Baluchistan province of Pakistan. The five attackers tried to enter the outpost …