AT-HERAT CITY: A four-day exhibition showcasing domestic products kicked off in western Herat province on Tuesday. Organizers of the event said that the expo will host 50 stalls of a diverse range of products manufactured by 65 domestic factories. The newly appointed governor of Herat province, Muhammad Asif Rahimi, said …
Read More »300 terror suspects held in Laghman
AT-KABUL: Afghan National Army (ANA) commandos arrested 300 suspected militants in an operation in eastern Laghman province, a local official said. Sarhadi Zwak, spokesman for Laghman governor office, said that army commandos conducted the crackdown on militants in Mia Saib and Murchakhel villages of Alishang district of the province on …
Read More »Over 50 schoolgirls poisoned in Samangan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Dozens of female students have been hospitalized after suspected gas poisoning in Khuram Sarbagh district of northern Samangan province, said officials on Tuesday. The development council head of the locality, Qari Tajuddin, said that white powder was sprinkled in the school’s lawn, located in Abdul Malik area …
Read More »MoRRD to implement 25 uplift projects
AT-KABUL: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Tuesday signed agreements with the local development shuras (councils) to implement 45 uplift schemes in six different provinces. Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Nasir Ahmad Durani, said the projects include construction and reconstruction of protection walls, dams and improvement of …
Read More »60 insurgents killed in operations: MoI
AT-KABUL: At least 60 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 38 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) …
Read More »5 killed, 53 injured in deadly bombing on Afghan Justice Ministry
AT-KABUL: At least five people have been killed and 53 injured by suicide car bombing in the parking lot of Afghanistan’s justice ministry building in Kabul, officials said. Kabul Police Chief, Abdul Rahman Rahimi, told reporters at the scene of the attack that five people, including a woman, were killed …
Read More »Afghan court sentenced 11 police to one year in jail over mob killing
AT-KABUL: A primary court in Kabul sentenced 11 police officers to one year in jail and announced eight others free of charges for failing to protect a woman killed in Kabul in March by an angry mob. The 28-year-old woman called Farkhunda was beaten to death and her body was …
Read More »NDS rebuffs ISI has offered training Afghan spy agents
AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the premier national spy agency, on Monday denied training of its agents by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Reacting to the news reports that ISI has offered to train and equip the NDS agents, spokesman to Afghan spy agency, Haseeb Siddiqi, said that nothing …
Read More »Nawa district chief shot dead
AT-KABUL: The chief of Nawa district of southern Helmand province has been shot dead in an ambush of the Taliban militants, said an official source on Monday. The incident took place in Moqor district of Ghazni province. However, Nang Safai, spokesman for Ghazni governor, said that incident has taken place …
Read More »Seven injured in suicide blast in Kandahar
AT-KABUL: At least seven people injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle of border police in southern Kandahar province, said a local official on Monday. Samim Khpalwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said that the suicide blast killed seven people, including two policemen and five …
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