Security & Crime

Four robbers who wanted to rob a house in the Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, have been arrested, a statement said on Wednesday.

The United Nations agencies on the occasion of World Day against Human Trafficking on Wednesday said one in every three victims of human trafficking was a child, but the overall number of such victims has decreased by 11 percent.

At least two police personnel and a civilian were killed in a militant attack on a checkpoint in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday.

Counter-narcotics Department officials set alight nearly 15 tons of drugs in central Daikundi province on Tuesday.

Four people have been arrested by security forces over breaching public order in Anaba district of central Panjsher province, police said on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has dismissed as false and baseless claims making rounds on social media about the installation of an anti-drone system at Bagram airbase with China’s cooperation.

Authorities in southwestern Nimroz province on Monday torched more than 700 musical instruments and hookahs collected by the Vice and Virtue Department officials.

Security forces have arrested a man after he smuggled military equipment to Afghanistan through Torkham crossing, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday.

Nearly three dozen people have been killed in ongoing clashes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district.

Security officials last night discovered two drugs making factories in two districts of central Uruzgan province and burned 4,000 kilograms of drugs.

The smuggling of 400 cattle to Iran has been thwarted at the border point of Chaharbarjak district in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Saturday.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): A group of armed robbers was arrested after an hour-long clash with security forces in northern Samangan province, a police official said .