AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Flash floods destroyed several villages and swept away standing crops in the Chakhansur district of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Saturday. Mohammad Fazli, the town’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghanha village was completely destroyed while another 50 villages were badly affected by …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An opposition party senator in Pakistan has stressed on the federal government to publicize the report to clarify confusions regarding the presence of the slain al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad. Bin Laden was killed in a May, 2011 assault launched by …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KBAUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament on Saturday expressed deepest concerns over the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) regarding corruption in security organs. They urged the government to seriously probe the report and take measures to address the issue. Head of the …
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AT-KABUL: At least 82 militants were killed and 42 others were wounded in different operations within past 24 hours, military sources said Saturday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) with the cooperation of the Afghan National Police (ANP) and National …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 22 militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) aka Daesh terrorist group have been killed in an airstrike attacks in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official said on Saturday. Provincial governor spokesman, Attaullah Khogiani said that airstrikes targeted Daesh hideouts in Milo area of Nazian district …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Eight militants and a policeman have been killed during separate incidents of violence in Logar province, an official said on Saturday. While confirmed the news, the provincial governor spokesman, Salim Saleh said that the incident took place after two armed militants stormed a police checkpoint in Kandahari …
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AT-KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the former president blamed the United States and its allies for what he said “taking wrong policy” in Afghanistan, resulting terrorists more power. “One decade and half ago, the US and its allies came to our country with full cooperation from the important regional countries with the …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has welcomed India’s decision to consider whether to pay for repairs to grounded helicopters and transport planes from the Afghan Air Force as part of their willingness to step up military assistance to Kabul. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Defense Ministry said …
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AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense has said that Seventy-seven insurgents, including twenty-two Daesh militants have been killed and sixteen others sustained heavy injuries in military operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in different parts of the country during past 24 hours. In a statement, the MoD said that …
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Twice in this series, Rahmat Shah failed to kick on after scoring a half-century. In the decider, he scored in triple-figures, for the second time in ODIs, to help Afghanistan recover from an early wobble and convert a potentially tricky 230 chase into a cruise. He steered them towards the …
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