The ongoing conflict is swallowing schools, burning classrooms with a foremost deprivation of schoolchildren from pursuing education which is their basic rights. Sometime, the Taliban militants are entering inside a school firing out of the windows against security forces. In exchanged firing, the school building is partially damage that also …
Read More »31 security forces martyred in Kunduz
AT-KABUL: In a multiple attack on security checkpoints in northern Kunduz province, at least 31 Afghan security forces embraced martyrdom and over 50 Taliban insurgents were killed and wounded in retaliation budge, official said Thursday. The Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Daesht-e-Arachi district on Wednesday night, martyring 31 security …
Read More »Ghani’s inspection bureau, a political arm
AT-KABUL: The former head of anti-corruption office said the creation of a new department titled ‘Inspection Office’ is feared to perform as a “political arm” for the government. President Ashraf Ghani has ordered for the creation of an inspection office to meet complaints regarding the activities of senior government officials. …
Read More »ANP leader ‘Haroon Bilour’ among 20 dead in Peshawar bombing; Karzai, Afghan statesmen condemn his assassination
AT-KABUL: At least 20 people including Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haroon Bilour were killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar on Tuesday night. Bilour, whose father Bashir Bilour was killed in a suicide attack in 2012, was targeted on Tuesday night at an election gathering in the Yakatoot area. He …
Read More »Pro-Dostum riot flares up; Protesters shut election offices in north
AT-KABUL: Protests over the arrest of militia commander Nizamuddin Qaisari have spread in the north as outraged protesters on Wednesday shut down provincial offices of the Independent Election Commission in Faryab and Sar-i-Pul provinces. Protesters warned that the election offices will not reopen until the government provides the grounds for …
Read More »11 killed as ISIS militants rampage through Jalalabad
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 people were killed and 10 others wounded after Daesh militants staged a stabbing rampage on the education department in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday morning, officials said. Two Daesh-linked terrorists raided the provincial education department in 5thpolice district in Jalalabad at around nine o’clock …
Read More »President under fire for election meddling
AT-KABUL: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission, says that the government’s disinterest in introducing new commissioners of the commission has created obstacles for its works, adding that the government was responsible for all the challenges of the commission in investigating complaints. Basir Faez, a member of the commission said Wednesday that …
Read More »Ghani has no interest in Dostum’s return
AT-KABUL: Hopes on first vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum’s returning home have increased following the second vice president Sarwar Danesh’s meeting with Dostum in Turkey. But the office of the first vice president said Wednesday that Danesh had no official message from President Ashraf Ghani to his first deputy. Enayatollah …
Read More »Editorial: In quest for peace
All efforts are on cards by clerics to induce Taliban to join the peace process and recognize the democratically-elected Afghan government. Since 2001, around 40,000 people have died in a conflict where no end is seen in sight. Its decades now the Taliban insurgents are fighting on religious perspective, but …
Read More »11 killed in terrorist attack against Jalalabad city education department
AT-KABUL- At least 11 employees of the Urban Education Department of Jalalabad city were martyred and 10 more were injured after two terrorists attacked the city’s education department office today morning. The attack which started at 9:30am lasted two hours before the two armed terrorist of ISIS to be killed …
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