Security & Crime

A person has been rescued from his kidnappers by security forces in central Logar province, an official said on Monday.

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Two members of a family were killed and three others were injured as a result of a domestic dispute in Watapur district of

Officials of the Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) in western Ghor province say that 655 cases of violence against women have been addressed in the past three years.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan and Pakistani border officials in Torkham have held a meeting to discuss issues related to public movement and its resolution, the Minister

Five individuals have been detained on charges of attacking worshippers at a Sufi shrine in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday.

An Afghan citizen has been gunned down by a senior customs officer in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Three houses have been destroyed due to the explosion of 22 rocket shells in northern Balkh province, police said on Saturday.

Australian government has appointed Justice McColl as the Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Advocate, a statement said on Friday.

Anti-narcotics department deputy director at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and Turkish Embassy’s advisor in Afghanistan talked about joint fight against narcotics and providing farmers with alternative crops.

Acting Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani says the rights of all individuals are safeguarded in the current system.

No one is allowed to impose punishment or torture on inmates, says a senior prison official.

Amid escalating violence, more than a dozen security personnel have been killed in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.