Security & Crime

Security forces in western Herat province have detained more than 1,700 individuals over the past week who were attempting to leave the country illegally through smuggling routes.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that during the past Gregorian year, 613 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded as

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, said that Afghanistan neither seeks to harm anyone nor accepts harm from anyone. However, he warned: “If someone harbors malicious intentions toward it, the country does not leave its debt unpaid. History bears witness that Afghanistan is not a soft morsel, but rather a Zaqqum tree (a cursed tree).”

About 38,000 narcotic tablets and 23 kilograms of hashish were seized and eight suspects detained in connection with the case in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday distributed new vehicles to personnel of the General Directorate of Traffic Police, saying the vehicles are equipped with special colors, markings and modern equipment.

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,