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Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Overloading of the trucks destroyed around 40 percent of roads in the capital city, said Kabul Municipality on Tuesday. In a press conference here, the deputy mayor of Kabul City, Khojhman Ulomi, said that each truck entering into the capital is loaded with 60 tons to 100 …

  AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces have killed 36 insurgents and injured many others in a series of military operations launched against anti-state elements in different insecure parts of the country, official sources said on Tuesday. The 215th Maiwand Military Corps in a media statement said that 33 militants were killed …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces detained 15 suspected militants in central Maidan Wardak province, said a local official. The provincial police chief, Muhammad Khalil Andarabi, said that Afghan security forces conducted a military operation against the militants, responsible for killing civilians on Kabul-Ghazni highway. The operation was conducted in Jang-e-Pain and …

GHAZNI: Seven members of a family were killed on Monday when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a roadside bomb in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, an official said. The bombing took place in Alizo locality at around 5:30pm, the governor’s spokesman, Shafique Nang, told Pajhwok Afghan …

AT News Report KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai donated $50,000 to facilitate scholarships for talented Afghan youth. Hamid Karzai returned home the other day after a 5-day visit to Australia. Karzai was invited by Young President Organization to deliver a speech in a conference. The Afghan ex-president in his speech …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: As many as 3.5 tons of Afghan heroin worth more than $1 billion has been seized by Russia’s law enforcement agencies in 2014, a report said Monday. An Indian news agency—Russia and India Report, quoted Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) head, Viktor Ivanov, as saying …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday termed the National Unity Government’s (NUG) US visit as highly productive in terms of rebuilding trust between leaders of the two countries. Abdullah told a session of Council of Ministers that the trip was another step towards strengthening relations and …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of members of the Wolesi Jirga, the parliament house, said Monday that insecurity has increased in the country since mid-March. The lawmakers said that people were not safe in parts of the country and they witness new incidents every day. The MPs also said …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Fierce clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents in Kajaki area resulted in energy blackout in southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces. According to locals and chief commercial officer of the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), state-owned electricity supplying company, the clashes has halted nearly 90 percent …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi KABUL: Tens of civil society groups from Ghazni province on Monday protested against insecurity and snail-paced efforts of the government to rescue the 31 passengers who were kidnapped allegedly by the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh on Kabul-Kandahar highway. The protestors gathered behind the parliament here and …