Taliban have set a mosque on fire which left copy of a holy Quran burned down completely in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, the district police chief said. Eng. Maj. Lutfullah Kamran claimed militants torched the…
Thousands of cricket fans on Thursday thronged streets in various parts of the country to celebrate Afghanistan’s first victory in the World Cup in New Zealand against Scotland after a nail-biting finish. Samiullah Shenwari batted Afghanistan to the…
Fourteen security forces, three civilians and 100 insurgent have been killed in the clearing operation in northern Kunduz province, Governor Mohammad Umar Safi said on Thursday.
A Turkish soldier and an Afghan civilian were killed and a second Afghan civilian was wounded when a suicide bomber in a car targeted a Turkish forces convoy in the heavily-fortified capital Kabul on Thursday, security officials said.…
Prominent Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) leader Haji Ghulam Bilour says he is optimistic about Afghanistan’s reconciliation process and that Islamabad has been left with no option but to cooperate with Kabul. Bilour, a former ANP vice-president and…
A number of civil society activists and residents of the capital Kabul on Monday vehemently denounced violence against women and demanded the perpetrators be brought to justice.
A woman gave birth to four girl babies and two boy babies in a hospital in western Herat province, but five of the newborns died within hours, an official said on Sunday.
Kabul police on Saturday claimed arresting 152 criminals, including a group allegedly involved in children kidnapping, in the capital city. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Police Chief Lt. Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi said the suspects have…
Officials on Thursday recorded dramatic increase in repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan’s Peshawar city and asked the central government should provide the families with needed facilities. Haji Ghulam Haidar Faqiri, director of Nangarhar refugees and repatriation,…
Three children were killed by unidentified armed men in western Herat and northern Baghlan provinces, officials said Thursday. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesman for Herat Civil Hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News dead body of a kid aged one-and-half-year and…
Construction work on two small irrigation dams was launched on Wednesday in southeastern Khost province. The World Bank-funded dams are being constructed east of Khost City on a natural steam crossing through the Farm Bagh area. Acting…
Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish on Tuesday asked Iranian businessmen to invest in the rich mining and agriculture sectors of Afghanistan. He said this during inauguration ceremony of second Afghan-Iran expo in Kabul, which was attended by…
Police in southern Zabul province claimed recovering huge quantity of weapons and bullets from a truck during a search, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief, said his force recovered arms and ammunitions…
Five people were wounded in a bomb blast in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, an official said. The incident took place when a bomb targeted a police ranger close to the custom department around…
Interior Minister Noor-ul-Haq Ulumi said on Friday that arms would be used against enemy but stressed close coordination with masses to ensure greater peace and stability in the country. Ulumi held detailed deliberations with tribal elders, youth,…
The Information and Culture Director for northern Sari-i-Pul province on Wednesday alleged gunmen loyal to the deputy provincial council head tried to kidnap him. Addressing a press conference at his residence in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh's capital, Abdul Qadus Fahim…
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four employees of a construction company in northern Jawzjan province, the police chief said Wednesday. Br. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said militants stormed two security posts in Qush Tepa district. A local policeman…
Hundreds of Kabul residents on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration, seeking an oversight role for provincial councils. On Wednesday, the lower house rejected a clause of the law on provincial councils, barring the elected bodies from evaluating the…
Three people have been killed and six others wounded as a result of a clash between local groups in central Parwan province, an official said Wednesday. Crime branch chief Lutf-u-Rahman Rashad told Pajhwok Afghan News the clash took…
At least nine militants, including a Taliban commander and three foreigners, have been killed during clashes in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Sunday. Abdul Jamil Siddiqui, the district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan…
At least 16 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 39 others wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber struck a funeral for victims of an earlier Taliban attack in eastern Laghman province. The suicide attack took place in…
The Kandahar police chief on Saturday alleged Pakistan was deceiving the international community by digging a 480-kilometre trench along the border on the pretext of preventing militant infiltration. Gen. Abdul Raziq levelled the allegation while responding to…
After a lot of dithering, the national unity government finally introduced 25 ministers-designate and heads of two independent entities to the Wolesi Jirga for a vote of confidence. Before introducing his cabinet picks to the lower house, President…
A private radio station report was shot dead by militants in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, bordering Pakistan’s tribal region of Khyber, officials said on Saturday. Batikot district chief Haji Ghalib told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
