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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: 29 prisoners were freed from prisons in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar in compliance with a presidential decree, officials said on Wednesday. Jail Superintendent Mir Hazrat Stanikzai says that the prisoners were released following a decree by president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani issued on the Eid …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least over 30 people were killed and over 50 others received injures after suicide bombers stormed Sardar Dawod Khan—a military hospital in Kabul on Wednesday morning, security official said. Spokesman  for the Ministry of Defense, Dawlat Waziri, said first a suicide attacker exploded his laden explosive …

AT-KABUL: An unknown number of armed militants today morning attacked the military hospital in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan area. Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri confirmed “attackers entered to hospital” but details were still not available. The attackers entered the hospital following a blast near to the back wall of the …

By Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: After a break of around 18 days, the Pak-Afghan borders both at Torkham, Khyber and Chaman BalAgency Baluchistan was opened for the stranded people from both sides on Tuesday morning. The crossings in according to decision will also remain open on Wednesday. Since early morning, hundreds of people have thronged …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Tuesday that it had foiled possible attacks against the parliamentarian, arresting two people hired for the plot. The detained militants have confessed that killing of the Law Maker of the Lower House of Parliament in Kabul was plotted by the militant Taliban’s …

AT-KABUL: At least 53 Taliban insurgents were killed and 31 others wounded in different joint clearance operations lunched by security forces in the past 24 hours across the country, ministry of defense said Tuesday. In a media statement, the ministry said the national army with the cooperation of the national …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) carried out operations against heroin makers and destroyed two factories in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials, Special Forces of the Interior Ministry were succeeded to discover two factories of heroin in Kambo area of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In the latest shelling, Pakistani troops have fired at least 145 missiles in the two district of eastern Kunar province, local official said on Tuesday. These missiles landed in Sarkano and Khas districts of the province, no reports of human casualties yet. “So far there have been …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has expressed his deepest condolences over the death of a former legislator, Babrak Shinwari who passed away due to illness. “I would like to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of the late Shinwari’s,” Karzai said in a statement, wishing …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) held its first meeting Monday in Kabul co-chaired by finance minister Eklil Hakimi and Shubham Chaudhuri, country director for the World Bank. “The meeting discussed aligning the support provided through the ARTF based on development objectives of the Afghanistan National Peace and Development …