Security & Crime

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) says 14 Afghans have been released from prisons in Azerbaijan through the efforts of the Afghan embassy in Baku.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence, responding to recent remarks by Pakistan’s defence minister linking Friday’s explosion in Islamabad to Afghanistan, has said that such statements and the attribution of the attack to Afghanistan have no logic or factual basis.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) announced that 153 Afghan migrants have been released from prisons in Pakistan and have returned to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the leadership of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the occasion of the country’s National Day, has released around 108 Afghan prisoners from its prisons.

More than 6,200 kilogrammes of various types of narcotics were set alight in western Ghor province on Wednesday, an official said.

At least 87 people were killed and 333 others injured in 193 incidents involving unexploded ordnance across Afghanistan over the past year, the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) said on Wednesday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says Afghanistan ranks third in the world for casualties caused by blasts of unexploded ordnance,

Security forces have prevented the smuggling of more than one tonne of medicines in northwestern Nimroz province and seized 170 kilograms of opium in western Herat province.

The Department of Vice and Virtue in western Herat province has prevented the forced marriage of a 13-year-old orphan girl in Shindand district, an official said on Tuesday.

Security forces have foiled the smuggling of 240 litres of acid and over 8,000 kilograms of copper to neighbouring Pakistan from northwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Saturday.

One individual has been killed and three others injured in a dispute between two families in the Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province over dumping snow into an alley.

KABUL (Pajhwok): An individual has been arrested on charges of smuggling precious stones worth 30 million Afghanis in eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Wednesday.