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AT-KABUL: At least 54 armed Taliban fighters were killed and nine 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) …

AT-KABUL: Afghan government has appointed General Qadam Shah Shaheen, as chief of the army staff, an official said on Saturday. “National Unity Government leaders agreed on General Qadam Shah’s appointment as the Army Chief of Staff of the country,” Javid Faisal, a spokesman for the Chief Executive Office, said on …

KABUL: The district chief for Charchino district of central Uruzgan province was killed in a bomb blast on Saturday morning, an official said. The governor’s spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab told Pajhwok Afghan News that the district chief Mohammad Ismail Haqyar was heading toward his home when his car hit a …

KABUL: On the invitation of Chinese government, former president Hamid Karzai left for Beijing on Saturday. A statement from the office of former president said Karzai left for China in the morning on an unofficial visit. He would stay in China for four days but the statement had no details …

AT-KABUL: The special envoy of Germany for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Michael Koch, stressed that the electoral reforms commission should start it work soon. Talking to joint press conference with the Deputy Foreign Ministry, Hekmat Khalil Karzai and Special Representative of the US for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Daniel Feldman, Michael Koch …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of elements inside and outside the government are involved in mounting insecurity in Afghanistan’s north, said an official. Assadullah Khoram, a member of the Provincial Council of Sar-e-Pul province, said that a number of elements inside the government and some foreign countries are responsible for …

AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) claimed to have thwarted a terror bid in Kabul. The NDS in a statement issued on Friday said that operatives of the spy agency arrested a suspected terrorist who wanted to detonate an explosive laden vehicle in one of the key areas of Kabul …

AT-KABUL:  The Hizb-i-Ensijam Milli Afghanistan—National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (NSPA)—on Friday said the memorandum of understanding (MoU) recently signed between the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Pakistani intelligence agency has officially provided window to Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan. Pointing out to different corners of the info-sharing MoU and analyzing …

AT-KABUL: Coming hard on the government for signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on intelligence sharing with Pakistan, a prominent Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf said the deal will only benefit Islamabad. “The MoU signed between the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) favors only Pakistan,” …

AT-KABUL: An Assembly of the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan’s (HIA) Regional Councils expressed its deep concerns over signing of the intelligence sharing deal between Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Criticizing the National Unity Government (NUG) for singing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the intelligence sharing …