Security & Crime

Security forces have arrested 40 individuals in connection with drug trafficking and other criminal activities in the provinces of Herat, Ghazni, Khost and Farah, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Saturday.

Four children have been killed in an explosion caused by an old landmine in southern Ghazni province.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Friday dismissed claims of a Pakistani advance in Paktika province as baseless, affirming that the area remains

KABUL (Pajhwok): Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday that Pakistan’s recent attack on the Omid drug treatment center in Kabul was unlawful, calling for

KABUL (Pajhwok): A man injured in a clash between two families in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, has died, local police said. In a

More than 400 Afghan refugees returned to the country this week after being released from prisons in neighboring Pakistan, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC) says 17 artefacts, including stone tools and pottery fragments, have been discovered in northern Baghlan province.

At least two civilians have been martyred and eight others wounded after Pakistani military regime fired 85 artillery shells into eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has called for an independent and transparent investigation into a Pakistani military regime airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in the capital Kabul.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has released American citizen Dennis Coyle on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. He had been detained for violating

A group of Afghan political figures, university professors, civil activists and tribal elders submitted a protest letter to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kabul on Monday over recent attacks by Pakistan’s military regime on Afghanistan.

Security forces in central Parwan province have arrested a six-member gang accused of impersonating representatives of telecommunications companies and defrauding people of hundreds of thousands of afghanis under the pretext of fake prizes.