The deputy police chief is among six security officials referred to different prosecution offices in connection with the murder of a moneychanger in eastern Nangarhar province. A number of gunmen attacked moneychanger Multan’s shop in Jalalabad city, the…
Police ‘ruthlessly’ thrashed a number of residents in this capital city of central Logar province after an explosion. Residents of Jumma Kala, Ali Khan Kala, Bucha Kala, Muhajir, Khwaja Mohammad and Akbar Kala areas of Pul-i-Alam visited the…
Taliban insurgents have freed 14 police personnel after holding them captive for eight months in Janikhel district of southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Sunday. Police also confirmed the news and said the Taliban had captured the…
The police chief for northern Balkh province on Tuesday said he would obey the central government’s orders if the situation turned bad over the governorship issue. Brig. Gen. Sayed Kamal Sadat told a meeting in Mazar-i-Sharif that no…
Interior Minister Wais Barmak on Monday said some politicians violated government recruitment rules, preventing reforms in the ministry. Barmak, who appeared before the Wolesi Jirga or the lower house of parliament, told the lawmakers: “Let us recruit based…
Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak on Sunday said the misuse of police forces and their equipment was ‘worrisome’, claiming about 400 police in Kabul alone were operating out of the ministry’s control in service of government officials. Barmak,…
Drugs are openly sold in some areas and even close to the police headquarters in the capital of western Farah province. In Farah City, the provincial capital, Qala-i-Faraidon, Bagh-i-Kafi, and Chahar Bagh are areas where drugs are…
President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the Afghan National Police (ANP) to control its ration’s quality itself and putting in place a mechanism to record suggestions and complaints from the personnel. A statement from the Presidential Palace said Ghani…
Fourteen policemen have been killed in the Taliban group attack on a check-post in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, a reliable government source said on Sunday. Initially a clash erupted between policemen which was followed by…
Taliban militants ambushed and killed 24 police and illegal gunmen in southern Helmand province last night, sources said on Thursday. A government source, who did not want to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News the clash between policemen…
The counternarcotics director and five other individuals have been arrested on moral corruption charges in central Bamyan province, officials said on Suday. Two others including a security official were arrested for selling a Russian tank, provincial crime…
An Afghan Local Police (ALP) member was killed inside a hospital after he had allegedly killed his wife and mother-in-law in northeastern Takhar province, an official said Saturday. Provincial police spokesman, Maj. Abdul Khalil Aseer, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Nine more police were killed after Taliban militants stormed their post in a midnight attack in Bala Buluk district of western Farah province, residents said on Friday. One resident on the condition of anonymity told Pajhwok Afghan…
Nearly a dozen police and one civilian were killed during a clash with Taliban militants in Pusht Koh district of western Farah province on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said. Hamayon, a resident of the district centre, told Pajhwok Afghan…
At least four policemen have been killed, seven others wounded and two security posts captured by Taliban in the Orgun district of northeastern Paktika province, officials said on Saturday. A security official, who wished to go unnamed, told…
Six members of a local uprising group and four policemen have joined Taliban’s ranks in Qaisar and Pashtoonkot districts of northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Monday. Qaisar district chief Rahmatullah Qaisari said four police personnel surrendered to…
At least six people were injured when police opened fire on a passenger bus in Bala Bolok district of western Farah province on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said. The incident took place on Farah-Herat highway in Farah Rood Bazaar…
Two policemen and a civilian have been killed and two other policemen wounded in a roadside bombing in the capital of western Farah province, an official said on Saturday. Governor’s spokesman, Naser Mahri, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Police have impounded hundreds of undocumented motorcycles in eastern Nangarhar province as part of a security campaign. Police said the campaign was launched after an uptick in targeted killings in the province and so far 600 motorcycles had…
At least 70 Taliban insurgents were claimed killed during a gun-battle still ongoing in Gomal district of southeastern Paktika province on Wednesday. Acting Paktika police chief, Dadullah Khan Hotak, told Pajhwok Afghan News the pre-dawn clash erupted after…
Five policemen and 15 Taliban militants have been killed in central Uruzgan province, while two civilians were stabbed to death in eastern Nengarhar province, officials said on Wednesday. Uruzgan police Chief Brig. Gen. Rahmatullah Sediqi told Pajhwok Afghan…
A district police chief was among seven other police killed in separate incidents of violence in southern Ghazni and Helmand provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The Jaghatu district police chief, Manzoor Hussain, was killed along with one bodyguard…
Police in southeastern Paktia province on Tuesday said they were concerned about a 1500 afghanis pay cut as directed by the Ministry of Interior in a letter to the provincial police headquarters. The ministry has cited ‘comparatively stable…
Civil society addicted to addicts has increased besides men. Paktika’s Milma Civil Foundation head, Yaqoob Khan, told a gathering in Sharana, the provincial capital, that the population of drug addicts was on the increase in Paktika where drugs…
