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AT-KABUL: Taliban released the 11 civilians they had taken hostage in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, an official said Saturday. Taliban dragged these people out of a bus and took them last week in the Sayyad district. They were travelling to the provincial capital which is also called Sar-e-Pul. “They were …

AT-KABUL: The first six specialist doctors to graduate from the French Medical Institute for Children’s (FMIC) Postgraduate Medical Education Programme have been awarded certificates of specialization on Saturday by Minister of Public Health Ferozuddin Feroz and Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College Professor Farhat Abbas. According to a press …

AT-KABUL: In order to help Afghan citizens to fight corruption and garner support for stronger government action against corruption, the European Union delegation in Afghanistan on Saturday launched its 2016 anti-corruption campaign. The campaign will continue for seven weeks and culminates with high-level conference in early May. The EU in …

Afghanistan has roared into the main draw of the World Twenty20 with an emphatic 59-run victory over Zimbabwe in a first round Group B match. Mohammad Shahzad (40) gave Afghanistan a flying start on Saturday before Mohammad Nabi (52) and Samiullah Shenwari (43) added 98 runs off 64 balls to …

As usual, it is not easy to choose news about events in Pakistan over the last one or two weeks for making comments. The deadly terrorist attack on a court premise in Shabqadar (Charsada), after a similarly bloody  attack on Bacha Khan University in the same district some time back, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States of America added two members of the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor in the list of global terrorists. “The State Department has designated Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under second 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives rescued a teenage boy kidnapped in Khost province and arrested four suspects, an NDS official said. “The 15-year-old boy was kidnapped 27 days ago from the Lakano area on the outskirts of Khost city,” said the NDS provincial director Col. Barakatullah. “The …

The Taliban’s coordinated attack on the Greshk district headquarters ended on Thursday leaving all the ten attackers dead. Four policemen died and 12 others injured in the line of duty. The district in restive Helmand province is strategically very important. If such attacks continued it would bring the government’s capability …

The former Afghan interior minister and ex-Ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad Omar Daudzai have questioned Pakistan’s sincerity in Afghan peace process, saying Islamabad is approaching its own interests in the process. Daudzai was speaking during an event marking the 5th anniversary of the assassination of Mawlana Syed Kheli, the former police …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday strongly condemned Pakistani army airstrikes against Afghan soil in eastern Afghanistan and warned that such violations could damage relations between the two countries. “Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemns Pakistani army’s airstrikes on Dangam district of Kunar province,” Karzai’s media office …