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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 …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan expats in the United Kingdom (UK), from both sides of the so-called Durand Line, staged a peaceful protest in front of the Pakistani High Commission in London. While strongly condemning the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hundreds of protestors in …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani accepted the credentials of new Indian ambassador, Manpreet Vohra, to Afghanistan here on Sunday. In a media statement issued here, Presidential Office said that the two sides discussed different issues of mutual interest including bilateral relations and cooperation between Kabul and New Delhi. The deputy foreign …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) managed by World Bank granted $128 million to Afghan government for the reconstruction of the Naghlu hydropower dam and water resources management. Finance Minister Eklili Hakimi, World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan, Robert Saum, Agriculture Minister Asadullah Zamir and Head …

AT Monitoring Desk-Kabul: The Taliban reiterated Sunday its preconditions for the restart of the peace talks with the government. The preconditions include the removal of their leaders’ names from the international terror blacklists. “Establishment of official venue, removal of blacklists and prize lists, release of prisoners and ending poisonous propaganda” …

AT-KABUL: At least 35 Taliban fighters were killed and seven others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces in the past 24 hours, officials said Sunday. “The national army in collaboration with the national police and National Directorate of Security conducted joint operations against the insurgents in the …

AT-KABUL: The Nutrition and Education International (NEI) said Sunday that Afghan farmers produced 4,000 tons of soybeans in 2015, which demonstrates 100 per cent increase in production as comparing to previous year. Some 2,000 tons of soybeans were produced in 2014, according to a statement issued by the NEI. It …

AT-KABUL: At least 16 Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists were killed in separate drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said Sunday. “The operations were launched by Afghan air forces and foreign troops in Achin and Haska Mina districts,” said Ataullah Khogyani, provincial spokesman. “Two Deash commanders Qari Abdul Wahab …