AT-KABUL: At least eight civilians were killed and three others injured in two separate roadside bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, provincial police said. The first blast took place in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar, early Monday morning at 8:00am, when students were on way to school. Two …

Panjshir, once known to be the valley of peace (because the insurgent Taliban couldn’t dare to carry out suicide bombings except one or two) and natural beauty has been worst hit by deaths and destruction caused by deadliest avalanches. The death and destruction is so massive that the government called …

AT-KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai, President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah prayed Fatiha for departed souls of the victims of natural disasters in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai prayed that may Allah Almighty rest the deceased souls in eternal peace. He extended his condolences to families of the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government has released Uzbek women in exchange for three engineers of a welfare organization captured by militants in Faryab province. Spokesman for Faryab governor office, Ahmad Javid Baidar, confirmed the release of Uzbek women, detained by Afghan security forces in the province for having links with …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The provincial council (PC) members’ right of monitoring government offices was resumed through a decree issued by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Sunday. The Wolesi Jirga, (the parliament), on the day before their vacation passed a controversial draft that annulled the overseeing right of provincial council members …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday summoned Sayed Abrar Hussain, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Kabul, in connection to the arrest and harassment of four Afghan diplomats by police in Peshawar. According to reports, the four diplomats were arrested among several Afghan nationals by police in scattered localities of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: It is almost one week that at least 30 passengers (ethnic Hazaras) have been abducted by armed men said to be linked to the international militant group—ISIS or Daesh, but their fate is unknown yet. Officials in southern Zabul province said Sunday that they have come up …

AT-KABUL: Adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz on Sunday said that Pakistan would never let its territory to be used against Afghanistan. Talking about the allies with Afghanistan, Sartaj Aziz assured to have restored cooperation and peace with Kabul by improving the defense …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday that security forces have the capacity and capability to fend off militant attacks and threats posed by anti-state elements, and are well capable of ensuring citizens’ safety. The MoI spokesman, Sediq Sediqi, told newsmen that security forces own now the things which …

AT-KABUL: A local bilingual daily accused two Pakistani citizens, working at the ELECT-II project of the United Nations Development Project (UNDP), of sabotaging the upcoming Wolesi Jirga elections. The UNDP’s Enhancing Legal and Electoral Capacity for Tomorrow (ELECT) project had been designed to help the Independent Election Commission (IEC) of …