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AT-KABUL: Hailing the reform agenda of the Ministry of Interior, the top US official in Kabul has put weight behind the government’s grand security plan for Kabul and its outskirts. The government has embarked an unflinching scheme to beef up security in Kabul province and its suburbs in the wake …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior has received 4.9 billion Afghanis in half-yearly revenue this fiscal year, against 3.8 billion of the past year. Minister of interior Wais Ahmad Barmak on Sunday said the ministry’s revenue reached Afs 4.9 billion. Speaking at explanation of four years MoI strategy, he …

AT-KABUL: At least 131 Taliban militants were killed and 36 others heavily wounded in counterterrorism military raids across Afghanistan in the past day. Ministry of Defense in a statement said on Sunday that Afghan army staged joint military operations with the Afghan police and national directorate of security to sweep …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan is planning to inject funds amounting to $22.5 million into counter-narcotics program in the eastern Nangarhar province. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) has signed an agreement with the local officials in Nangarhar to implement alternative projects at a cost of $22.5 million in a bid to curtail poppy …

AT-KABUL: Deputy Chief Executive, Mohammad Mohaqqeq warned that “efforts to impose a single identity on other people, will lead the country to crisis”. “Some efforts are underway to remove identities and impose one identity on the others. Such efforts are infeasible. We are Afghanistanis (citizens of Afghanistan) and give sacrifices …

AT-KABUL: In a spree of military raids in southern Uruzgan province, as many as 70 Taliban insurgents were killed and 15 more rebels wounded, a military official said on Saturday. Khwaja Yehya Alwai, spokesman for the Afghan National Army (ANA)’s 205th Atal Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Nations General Assembly Security Council has evaluated security situation in Afghanistan and discussed the importance and need for Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the face of the ongoing national controversies. General Assembly in its seventy-second session; agenda item 39; the situation in Afghanistan, has provided …

AT-KABUL: At least five policemen were martyred after the Taliban insurgents ambushed an outpost in tumultuous Zabul province, local officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the Taliban militants assailed a police outpost in Mullah Dina area of Qalat city and salvaged weapons, the TOLONews reported. According to Zabul …

Painstaking effort to distribute the long-awaited biometric identity cards in the multiethnic Afghanistan has been counterproductive and acrimonious, and orchestrated an unprovoked crisis, public rage and disputes among politicians. The bone of contention is whether to include ethnicity in the long-protested biometric cards – a decision which has been detested …

AT-KABUL: A large heroin production facility belonging to the Taliban insurgents was destroyed and at least 8 terrorists were killed after the U.S. coalition forces staged a drone strike in Farah province, said a local police official on Saturday. According to the provincial police chief, the airstrikes were conducted in …