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At least six people embraced martyrdom and 10 others were wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in the outskirts of Kabul on Wednesday morning, authorities said, with no immediate claim of responsibility. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police, said that the bomber struck …

The courts of Criminal Justice Task Force on Tuesday said that 23 drug traffickers have been sentenced to short and long term prison over past week. CJTF in a press statement said the primary and appeal court of CJTF have convicted 23 smugglers to six months-18 years prison. Counter Narcotics …

Five members of the Taliban group who had been held by the US in the Guantanamo jail are now in the Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar, Taliban confirmed. Mullah Mohammad Fazel Akhond, Mullah Noorullah Noori, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwah, Mullah Abdul Haq Wasiq and Maulavi Mohammad Nabi Omari were exchanged …

Some political parties are negotiating to form new alliances to compete in the next year’s presidential election. Hashmatullah Arshad, a spokesman of the Hezb-e-Islami, said Tuesday that jihadi and non-jihadi parties were in negotiations to choose a candidate for the presidential election, refusing to say if the Hezb-e-Islami planned to …

The Ministry of Education launched the first ever hygiene management guideline for girls on Tuesday, which also coincides with the Girl Hygiene Day. With the support of UNICEF and other sector ministries, the education ministry launched the first ever Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Guideline for teachers in Afghanistan. The guideline …

A senior militant of the Taliban extremist group and five of his comrades were wounded in an onslaught of Afghan armed forces in western Herat province, according to authorities who reckoned that several hideouts of the Islamic State extremist network were decimated in Ghazni province. The interior ministry said Tuesday …

At least 26 Taliban insurgents including a local commander were killed during an onslaught of Afghan police in southern Ghazni province, according to authorities. According to a statement issued by Ministry of Interior (MoI), Afghan police special unit has launched anti-Taliban militants’ crackdown in Qarabagh district of Ghazni, which resulted …

KABUL: A large number of people staged demonstration Monday in Logar province to protest the Independent Election Commission for what they called “counting black and white ballots to use in benefit of certain candidates”. The protestors said ballots came from the areas where election was not held at all. Officials …

AT-KABUL: A mourning ceremony was held Monday for the former parliamentarian Abdul Jabbar Qahraman and former Kandahar police chief Abdul Razeq in the presidential palace. President Ashraf Ghani, former president Hamid Karzai, government officials and jihadi leaders as well as Mahmood Achakzai, leader of Awwami Pakhtonkhwa Party attended the ceremony …

The independent election commission and complaints commission are now at loggerheads over the fate of ballots cast without voters passing a hectic biometric authentication, plunging the already blemished elections into crisis. The bone of contention is the ‘suspicious ballots’ which the complaints commission or the IECC believes are the ones …