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Following assassination of Kandahar Police Chief General Abdul Raziq, his brother has been appointed as acting police chief in the southern province to fill a security vacuum left by the slain general. Upon a proposition by the Ministry of Interior and its approval by the President, brother of martyred General …

Opposition of the government – touted as National Coalition of Afghanistan – on Monday heaped scorns on large-scale discrepancies and maladroit management of polls which deterred voters and political parties during the two-day voting. Delays in opening polling stations, discrepancies in voter lists, and faulty biometric devices sparked cynicism and …

Intelligence chief on Monday disclosed that the conspiracy to kill Kandahar police chief General Raziq was hatched in Pakistan and one of their cadres had executed the plan, according to a top intelligence official. “The conspiracy to kill General Raziq was hatched in Pakistan and executed by a militant in …

A Resolute Support service member was killed following an apparent insider attack in western Herat province, the coalition forces said Monday. “A Resolute Support service member was killed in Herat province today. Two other Resolute Support service members were wounded in the incident,” the RS said in a statement. The …

AT-The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday strongly condemned the suicide attack perpetrated on 20 October 2018 in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, resulting in dozens of causalities and injuries, at a time when the citizens were engaged in the voting process in the parliamentary elections. …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Voting for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections officially began on Saturday morning across the country and was extended for one more day as thousands couldn’t vote amid delays and technical interruptions. The nation defied Taliban warnings and flocked to the polls in droves in the midst of terror attacks, …

At least 44 people including several policemen have been charged with voter fraud and interfering in the voting for parliamentary elections, the interior ministry said Sunday. “Up until now, intelligence and security forces have detained 44 people including several policemen on charges of interfering in elections and committing fraud in …

AT-KABUL: 11 members of a family were martyred after their car they were traveling in was hit by a militant planted roadside bomb in Achin of Nangarhar province. The blast destroyed the car today morning at around 11:00am in Achin district of the province. Six children and a woman are …

By Farhad Naibkhel -KABUL: Voting for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections officially began on Saturday at 7am across the country amid extremely volatile security situation, in what was seen as a gloomy day for the broken nation of Afghanistan. The voting counter-intuitively didn’t happen as anticipated mostly because of long delays in …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Parliamentary election started by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani at 7:00 am today in a polling site in capital Kabul amid high security alert. President Ghani along with Chief of Election Commission (IEC) and some other officials, while using his right to vote, said that today unbelief changed …