Security & Crime

The police chief for central Uruzgan province,   Maulvi Mohammad Rafiq Khadim has emphasized sharing information with the media and also advised security personnel to cooperate with journalists during their work.

Afghanistan has made progress on different fronts, including security and the fight against illicit drugs, over the past two years, says the acting interior minister.

Two children sustained shrapnel injuries when an unexploded mortal shell they were playing with went off in the Bala Buluk district of western Farah province, police said on Saturday.

HERAT  CITY (Pajhwok): Six people, including two Shiite clerics, were killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in  western Herat province, on Friday, a statement

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Police have arrested a man on charges of smuggling precious stones in Charikar, the capital of central Parwan province. Parwan police headquarters in

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): A 12-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man have committed suicides separately in Dawlatabad and Balcheragh districts of northern Faryab . . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): A family in Kabul on Wednesday called on the United States to release their family member Abdul Rahim, who has been imprisoned in

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Police in central Parwan province have recovered a body, explosives from a scrap store and arrested two persons with some drugs in their

The 209th Al-Fath Corps says 90 different damaged military vehicles have been repaired in northern Balkh province.

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development says four local employees of aid agency GIZ have been detained in Afghanistan. However, the Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the arrests.

The 11th Herat Security Dialogue has got under way in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.

SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing his 20-year-old husband in the Sayad district of northern Sar . . .