AT News KABUL: At least 46 Taliban fighters have been killed and 22 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense officials said Tuesday. Afghan Air Forces targeted Taliban’s gathering and strongholds in …
Read More »Tens of Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Prison
AT News KABUL: A band of 34 people who plead guilty for trafficking narcotics have been sentenced in Kabul to three to 29 years in prisons over the past week, anti-drug authority said on Tuesday. A statement issued by the courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), said that seven …
Read More »NDS arrested six-member Haqqani-Daesh joint terror cell in Kabul
By M. Parwiz Arian KABUL: Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) during a special operation have arrested a six-member joint terror cell of the Daesh and Haqqani Network in Kabul, the intelligence agency said Tuesday. The joint terror cell was responsible for targeted killings and the transportation …
Read More »President Xi Jinping’s holistic view of national security Guides China-Afghanistan Security Cooperation to a New High
By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese President Xi Jinping has, on the basis of a deep understanding of the trend of history, put forward a series of new strategic, forward-looking and science-based ideas and concepts to …
Read More »Four Police killed in western Herat province
By M Parwiz Arian KABUL: At least four members of the Afghan security forces were killed and one was injured after their car was hit by a terrorist planted land mine in western Herat province, officials said Tuesday. The incident took place Tuesday morning on Herat-IslamQala highway of Herat province, …
Read More »Four killed in Kabul shooting
By: M. Parwiz Arian KABUL: At least four civilians were killed on Tuesday morning after unknown gunmen opened fire on a car in western parts of Kabul city, sources said. The incident took place Tuesday morning at 9:20am in Bagh-e-Dawoud area of the PD-5 of Kabul city when the victims …
Read More »Nangarhar police seized hashes, arrested five traffickers
By: M. Parwiz Arian KABUL: Nangarhar police have seized 33 packs of hashish during a search operation on Monday in Koat district of the province, officials said Tuesday. Police intercepted the hashish from a private corolla car during a search operation in Forokhshakhil area of Koat district of the province …
Read More »One killed, five wounded in Parwan bomb blast
AT News KABUL: A service member of the intelligence agency was killed and five of his colleagues wounded when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle Monday in Parwan province, north of Kabul, provincial officials said. Abdul Wasi Rahimi, head of provincial intelligence department told newsmen that the target of the …
Read More »303 polio cases registered in 2020 in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health confirmed 303 cases of polio in 2020 across the country. Wahidullah Mujroh, deputy health minister called commuting between the two sides of the Durand line as the main reason for the rapid spread of the disease in Afghanistan. He said that insecurity …
Read More »Annual healthcare report: 177 people dead, 13,000 injured in traffic accidents
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) registered 491 traffic accidents in the outgoing Persian Year (March 2020 to March 2021) saying that 177 people died and 13,000 other injured. Masooma Jafari, spokeswoman of the ministry of public health, said on Monday that the figures were recorded since …
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