Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 15 policemen were killed in the line of duty in Helmand province when the Taliban insurgents attacked their post, sources said on Wednesday. According to local sources, the militant group attacked police post late Tuesday night in Musa Qala district of the province. Bashir Ahmad …
Read More »Gen. Raziq sees Pakistan’s hand behind fighting in Helmand
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Gen. Abdul Raziq, police chief, of the southern Kandahar province, said that the ongoing fighting in Helmand province has been engineered and directed from Pakistan as Helmandis are worst hit by violence. Talking to newsmen, Raziq said the militants are enjoying full support of Pakistan. He added …
Read More »Germany’s new special envoy for Afghanistan, Pakistan calls on Rabbani
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Germany’s newly appointed special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, called on Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani here the other day and discussed regional and national issues. In the meeting, Salahuddin Rabbani felicitated the new Germany’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and thanked her country for providing assistance to …
Read More »Pakistani doctor nabbed in Nangarhar for treating Taliban
AT-KABUL: Afghan army in a joint operation with police and National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested a Pakistani doctor who was treating the Taliban insurgents in Nangarhar province. Nangarhar police in a media statement issued here said the Pakistani citizen, identified as Tariq Jamal, was providing medical care to the …
Read More »Over 100 Nangarhar residents in IS captivity: Locals
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Tribal elders in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday claimed that 130 residents were still in captivity of the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State, also known as Daesh, has recently released a video footage showing 10 Afghan civilians killed brutally. The footage has shook-up the nation. According …
Read More »Taliban’s shadow chief for Qarghaee district of Laghman detained
AT-KABUL: Operatives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested the Taliban’s shadow chief for Qarghaee district of eastern Laghman province. A press statement issued by the NDS said that their operatives arrested Maulvi Esmail Alias Abddullah, the Taliban’s shadow district chief for Qarghaee, along with one of his comrades, …
Read More »NDS to probe into IS footage
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) will launch a probe into a video shared in social media the other day showing the Islamic State (ARE) fighters burying bombs in a hillside in eastern Afghanistan, forcing the prisoners (locals) to sit on their knees and as they knelt down …
Read More »Drone strike kills 250 insurgents in Nangarhar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 250 Taliban and IS insurgents, known as Daesh, have been killed in 17 US drone attacks in eastern Nangarhar province in the past month, local officials said on Tuesday. These operations were conducted in Hashkamina, Achin, Nazyan, Khoghyani and Sherzad districts of the province, and …
Read More »AfPak cooperation key to defeat terror: US
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Expressing concerns over growing tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan following the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Kabul, the United States of America called on the two neighboring countries to work together to achieve the shared goals of eliminating terrorism. The US State Department spokesman, John Kirby …
Read More »Corrupt Urban Ministry officials to face court soon: AGO
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Attorney General Office (AGO) on Tuesday said that cases of the six corrupt officials of Ministry of Urban and Development Affairs (MoUDA) were finalized and would be sent to the court soon. The AGO’s spokesperson Abdul Basir Azizi said that investigation in the mega corruption case in …
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