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AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Monday said that a group of five terrorists were arrested in eastern Nangarhar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives apprehend five terrorists in a crackdown launched in 7th district of Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province. …

AT-KABUL: The 4th death anniversary of the former Afghan president and High Peace Council (HPC) chief Burhanuddin Rabbani was marked on Sunday in Kabul, with participation of high-ranking officials, jihadi leaders and lawmakers. Addressing the ceremony, ex-President Hamid Karzai commended Prof. Rabbani’s indefatigable efforts to bring long lasting peace to …

AT-KABUL: Sixty-one students were awarded the General Nursing Diploma at a graduation ceremony in Faizabad, capital of northern Badakhshan province. The ceremony marked a milestone: the graduation of the first class of nurses from a program run in Faizabad and managed by the Badakhshan Provincial Public Health Directorate and Badakhshan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Two police vehicles and five shops were destroyed in a bomb blast in central Logar province, an official said. The deputy police chief Col. Qari Mohammad Wara told media that the incident occurred before noon the other day in Khezar bazaar, targeting a convoy of the Afghanistan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least six Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in Behark district of northern Badakhshan province. The governor’s spokesman Ahmad Naveed Frotan said that the killed policemen were having dinner when the terrorist attacked them in Surkham area of Baharak district the …

AT-KABUL: Three persons were injured on Sunday seriously in a suicide blast in Kandahar province, the provincial government said. Spokesman to the provincial governor Samim Khpalwak told media that a terrorist detonated an explosive filled car near a security check-post in Daman district at 11:30 a.m. He said three persons …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have warned hundreds of villages in Deh Yak district of the restive Ghazni province to leave their homes. Residents of Rabat Sangi village said the militant group has blocked all roads leading to the village which multiplied their problems and put their life at risk. The …

More than 40 Afghan citizens have been detained in separate raids by Pakistani security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab provinces. In KP’s garrison town of Kohat, security forces seized a huge quantity of weapons and also arrested 96 suspects, including 21 Afghans late on Saturday. The operation was …

KABUL: Afghanistan on Saturday strongly rejected the allegation that Friday’s attack on the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base in the northwestern city of Peshawar was planned and controlled from Afghanistan. “We vehemently reject as baseless claims that the attack in Peshawar was planned or controlled from Afghanistan,” the president’s deputy …

AT-KABUL: Oppertives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested two people for allegedly killing government officials, ulema and tribal elders in western Herat province. The NDS in a press statement said that the arrested men have recently killed a staffer of the spy agency in Pashtun Zarghoon district and …