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AT-KABUL: At least 58 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 29 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 48 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Army  (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) …

KABUL: As a frontline fighting force against terror, the Afghan Local Police (ALP) should be provided with all the needed facilities and support by the Afghan security forces, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday. Last Thursday, heavily-armed insurgents stormed and seized several police check posts and later …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: As security has been deteriorating across the country, a number of senators demanded convening of Loya Jirga to help find out a way out to the gnawing conflict. They said as security situation has been worsening because of the internal bickering between the leaders of the National …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: A number of civil society activists and scores of protestors on Sunday asked Wolesi Jirga to summon the security officials for their negligence regarding the deadly incident in Jarliz district of Maidan Wardak province, where more than 30 Afghan Local Policemen (ALP) were killed by the …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Members of the Meshrano Jirga on Sunday staged a walk out protest as the summoned high-ranking security officials failed to appear before the Senate. The gate of Meshrano Jirga (MJ) or Senate was closed down till coming Wednesday as protest after the minister of foreign affairs and …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced acid attack on school girls in western Herat province. In a fresh case of violence against women, unidentified men on motorcycles hurled acid at three girl students in the province. Hamid Karzai termed the acid attack a cowardly act and said that it was …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga urged the incumbent government to introduce its new pick for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) soon. This comes at a time that Massom Stankzai, minister-designate for defense failed to get vote of confidence from Wolesi Jirga. The Jirga also previously rejected Sher Muhammad Karimi to …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Scores of Afghan companies on Sunday alleged different American and Turkish firms of ‘looting’ over $100 million from local contractors. The local companies urged President Ashraf Ghani for justice. Representative of the Afghan companies, Sayed Qaribullah Sadat, said that the US and Turkish construction firms have deprived …

By Devendra Bhattarai-Rabin Khadka, 27, of Lamjung and Bir Bahadur Gurung, 30, of Kathmandu have been making rounds of various hotels and centres of New Delhi for the past seven months after a group duped thousands of rupees from them promising a good job at a security force in Kabul, …

AT-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed a team of high-level government officials to investigate the Jalrez district tragedy in central Maidan Wardak province, a statement from the Presidential Palace said. The statement said that the president had nominated a delegation to thoroughly investigate the incident and submit the final …