Security & Crime

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has directed the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and other relevant government bodies through a decree to arrest and refer human traffickers to the military courts for punishment.

The Land Grab Prevention and Restitution Commission (LGPRC) has identified 2,500 acres of land in the Bagram district of central Parwan province as state land, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said on Sunday.

Security forces have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a local representative in the Khanaqa district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Friday.

Poppy cultivated on 2,800 acres of land has been destroyed in northern Baghlan province and nearly 4,000 drug addicts rehabilitated during the past one year, officials said on Thursday.

The Land Grab Prevention Commission (LGPC) has wrested back more than 10,000 acres of state land from grabbers in six provinces of the country during the last one month, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced on Wednesday.

Five security personnel have been killed and several others wounded in fresh attacks in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Security forces have arrested 560 suspects in connection with various crimes during the last six months in Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province, an official said Saturday.’

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iran, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the European Union and several current and former Afghan officials have denounced the blast inside the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation in Kabul.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has blamed Khawarej, a reference to Daesh, for the blast at the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) in Kabul.

A woman along with her son has killed her daughter-in-law before setting alight her body in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday.

A three-year-old enmity between residents of two villages has come to an end in Kof-e-Ab district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday.

Police in central Parwan province have arrested an alleged blackmailer who threatened a family about the release of its private photographs and demanded 100,000 afs.