The spy service on Wednesday announced developing for the first a national security strategy aimed at combating security threats and defining the limits of use of force. Speaking at a press conference in Kabul, National Directorate of Security…
KABUL militants from southeastern Khost province have been detained, the Afghan intelligence service claimed on Friday. In a statement, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) identified the detainees as Hazratullah, Rahimullah and Ihsanullah -- residents of Sabari district. The spy…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Security forces discovered a depot of explosive and arrested an individual in this connection in the Guzra district of Herat province, an official said on Wednesday. Nisar Ahmad Popal, the district chief, told reports the explosives were…
JALALABAD (PAN): Intelligence operatives in eastern Laghman province have detained 21 children, some as young as 7, being taken to Pakistan for receiving suicide attack training, an official said on Thursday. The children, aged between 7 and 12 years, were…
KABUL), the Afghan spy service, the government announced on Saturday. Under Article 64 of the constitution and based on his handling of the intelligence agency affairs, President Hamid Karzai elevated the NDS deputing head as acting director. A statement from…
KABUL (PAN): Triggered by a brazen assault on the Kabul International Airport early Monday morning, clashes between insurgents and security forces ended with the killing of all seven attackers, the Ministry of Interior said. Two of the militants blew themselves…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai met his spymaster on Thursday, a day after his return from four months of medical treatment in the United States. During the meeting at the Presidential Palace, Karzai expressed his happiness over National Directorate of Security…
JALALABAD (PAN): A number of journalists, who were physically assaulted by intelligence agents in eastern Nangarhar province after a car suicide bombing on Sunday, staged a protest, giving the authorities 24 hours to bring to justice the assailants. The National…
KABUL (PAN): The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the spy service, on Wednesday said recent group suicide attacks on government entities in Kabul were beyond the "Taliban's ability", accusing "a strong foreign intelligence network" behind the assaults. Two bombers blew…
KABUL (PAN): Five suicide bombers were killed in a brazen attack and gunfire in front of the Afghan intelligence service, known as the National Directorate of Security (NDS), in Kabul on Wednesday afternoon. One of the Taliban bombers detonated his…
KABUL’s Inter- Services Intelligence for the assassination plot. The intelligence chief was badly wounded in a suicide attack on Thursday afternoon at his guest house in the Taimany locality of Kabul, after a man posing as a Taliban messenger approached…
ISLAMABAD (PAN last Thursday. In a statement released on Saturday, Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected claims leveled against it and urged the Afghan government to share any information on the incident and discuss the issue with Pakistan officials before…
KABUL of orchestrating the failed assassination attempt on the Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid. Khalid was severely wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace emissary blew himself up inside a National Directorate of Security guesthouse…
KABUL) chief Asadullah Khalid who was injured in a suicide attack on Thursday was shifted to a United States-managed military hospital in Bagram for further treatment. A family member told Pajhwok Afghan News that the wounded intelligence chief was transferred…
KABUL), the Afghan spy service, in the 12th police district of Kabul, an intelligence official said on Thursday. The bombers, who wanted to carry out suicide attacks in different locations of the capital, had gathered at a house in the…
KABUL) on Tuesday rejected allegations that prisoners in Afghan jails are being mistreated. Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) alleged in a recnt report that NDS and MoI officials had given electric shocks to prisoners. In some instances, the rights…
KABUL): More than a dozen militants, including would-be suicide attackers, have been detained with explosives in different parts of the country, the spy service said on Sunday. Six of the 14 detainees wanted to disrupt the celebration of the Nawroz…
TRINIKOT (PAN) was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in central Uruzgan province on Friday, an official said. While working on his farm in the Talani area of Trinikot, the provincial capital, Muhammad Hashim Khan was gunned down by two motorcyclists.…
KABUL): Nearly a dozen groups, comprising 380 insurgents, joined the peace process as a result of efforts by intelligence officials, the spy service said on Thursday. The surrendering groups included commanders Abdullah, Mullah Rahmatullah, Abdul Nasir, Ghulam Sakhi, Sayed Amir…
KABUL) on Monday denied confidential information had been leaked to an imposter in southern Kandahar province, but an official at the governor’s house admitted a former senator visited the spy office. Bismillah Afghanmal, a member of the upper house, told…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Three intelligence operatives, a provincial council member and two policemen were killed in separate bomb attacks in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, an official said. A roadside explosion killed the Nad Ali district intelligence chief, Wali Mohammad, along…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN city, an official said on Tuesday. The missiles, in a ready to fire mode, were found at the Arghndi area of Kabul by National Directorate of Security (NDS) officials from Wardak, the governor's spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, told…
QALAT (PAN) operatives with more than three tonnes of explosives on Monday, an official said. The explosives packed in eight sacks were recovered from a vehicle during an NDS operation in the Bakarzai area Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul…
