Provinces

AT-KABUL: Six people died when a car turned turtle in Chak district of Miadan Wardak province. A media statement from the provincial governor office said that the incident took place in Ghanikhel area of the district, when a corolla model car turned turtle. “The car turned turtle on a bridge …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An explosives-laden tractor, coming from Pakistan, was seized by security forces in southern Kandahar province, said officials on Tuesday. The police headquarters in Kandahar said the vehicle was seized in Regi area of Dand district the other day which had arrived from Pakistan. Security officials said there …

AT-KABUL: In the aftermath of increasing insecurity in highway connecting the capital city Kabul with the central Bamiyan province, a number of residents in Bamiyan on Sunday attended a peaceful rally, seeking tight security measures for the highway and criticizing the government’s reluctance in this regard. Last week, at least …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Amidst reports about existence of ISIS militants in Afghanistan, the spokesman for acting governor of southern Helmand province Omar Zwak on Saturday termed the reports as unfounded and said the militant groups has no presence and activity in the province. “There is no such group with the …

AT-KABUL: Edible items send by the government of Turkmenistan for families affected by natural disasters and war arrived in Jawzjan province on Saturday. Turkmenistan’s consul general, Bazaar Bahi, told media-persons in Mazar-i-Sharif that at least 1,000 conflict and disaster-hit families would benefit from the assistance. He said that Ashgabat has …

AT-KABUL: Two border policemen were killed and two others injured on Saturday in a bomb blast in Jalalabad, capital city of the eastern Nangarhar province, sources said. Spokesman to the provincial governor, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told media that the bomb blast took place at 11:00 am near the Kabul terminal …

AT-LASHKARGAH: Unknown armed men killed a police check-post commander on Saturday in the capital city of Helmand province, sources said. Spokesman to the provincial police Col. Farid Ahmad Obaid told reporters that in charge of a police check-post in Lashkargah was killed in Safyan area at 12:00 noon. He said …

AT-KABUL: At least three tons of drugs were set ablaze in central Parwan province, said the Interior Ministry on Wednesday. The director general of the counternarcotics department at the Interior Ministry, Abdul Khalil Bakhtiar, said the drugs included heroin, hashish, opium and alcohol. He added that around 200 tons of …

KABUL: Fathiyah (name changed for protection reasons) has almost nothing, but says that she still feels rich. The mother of three lost her home and many of her possessions last year, when armed militants forced her family out of their village in northern Afghanistan’s Faryab province. The situation had become …

AT-KABUL: Death anniversary of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan, was observed on Tuesday in the capital city of Nangarhar province. Bacha Khan’s daughter-in-law Naseem Wali Khan and scores of Afghan officials, Awami National Party (ANP) members and Pashtuns’ rights activists paid rich tribute to the political and …