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U.S. Aggressively Continues to Pursue ISK, Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: Spokesman

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

212The U.S. forces in Afghanistan continue its offensive against Islamic State – Khorasan (ISK) province and Al Qaeda, officials said.

According to a Resolute Support Spokesman in Afghanistan, the number of ISK militants in the country have decreased from 3,000 to 1,000 and they have lost one third of territory which was under their control.

“We do have the authority to conduct unilateral operations with defeating Al Qaeda as well as ISK. We very aggressively pursue that mission. Last year, we conducted 350 operations against those terrorists, and specifically, we captured or killed over 200 Al Qaeda members. And we think we degraded the ISK industry by 500 and reduce their overall presence in the country,” Brig. General Charlie Cleveland, the NATO spokesman in Afghanistan said.

NATO officials say the Daesh still controlling around a thousand militants across the country.

The alliance believes there were up to 3,000 members of ISK located in eastern Jalalabad province of Afghanistan and they had a presence in about 10 to 11 districts. Now after a year since the U.S. received the authority to go ahead and target Daesh, the number have decreased to 1,000 with having a presence in only two or three districts.

“There are approximately 1,000 members of ISK in a province in the south. We think they are only in about two to three districts,” Gen. Cleveland added.

Officials reports that there are 98 U.S. designated terrorists organizations in the world and 20 of them are operating in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.

“The international community does recognize that the Afghans have made progress, but they still have a ways to go, and therefore, we need to remain engaged, and we do remain — and we do need to remain focused on the terrorist threats from the area,” Gen. Cleveland continued.

The main mission of the US forces in Afghanistan is to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces in order to be able to defend their own borders and address terrorist threats.

Currently there are about 9,800 Americans in Afghanistan. The Obama administration has scheduled to take down the number to 8,400 by the first of January 2017 despite of the country having a fragile political and military situation.

Reported by: Fahim Noori

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Bayat Foundation helps needy families in Balkh

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

As part of Bayat Foundation’s Ramadan aid campaign, needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province, received much needed food packages this week.

The aid package includes rice, flour and oil.

“In continuation of Bayat Foundation’s assistance, this time also a quantity of food such as flour, oil and rice was distributed to needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif; Inshallah, these contributions will continue,” said a representative of the foundation.

Needy families that received aid packages expressed their gratitude but called on other aid organizations to help the needy during these difficult times.

“Many thanks to Bayat Foundation, I thank Bayat Foundation for helping the needy and poor people of this region,” said a recipient said.

“I would like to thank Bayat Foundation for their cooperation in helping the needy in this holy month of Ramadan; it is hoped that traders and charities will do such sustainable work,” said another recipient.

Bayat Foundation is one of the charitable organizations that has played an important role in helping the needy in Afghanistan over the last two decades.

In addition to distributing aid packages to needy and vulnerable families, it has carried out numerous other projects, including the construction of health centers and schools.

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MoI registers over 8,700 criminal cases in the past six months

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

Abdul Matin Qani, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman said on Thursday that in the last six months, 8,747 criminal cases have been recorded across the country.

Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Qani said of these cases, 7,233 have been solved while the remaining 1,525 are still being investigated.

He said 12,540 people have been arrested in connection with these crimes.

In addition, 21 kidnappers have been killed, 18 hostages have been freed and 172 people have been arrested in connection with kidnappings in the same period of time.

Qani also said in the last six months 837,000 passports have been distributed. He said three new passport offices will be established in Kabul in the near future.

“10,000 passports are distributed to citizens daily by the Passport Department,” said Qani.

On the issue of narcotics, he said drug cultivation, production and trafficking has been eradicated. He said drug manufacturing equipment and 377 drug factories have been destroyed across the country.

According to him, the ministry has also made advances in collecting illegal weapons, fighting corruption and improving police skills.

Qani stated that during this period, no security incidents took place in most provinces across the country.

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TAPI gas company CEO satisfied with project’s progress

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

The minister of mines and petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar met with the executive director of the TAPI project and the ambassador of Turkmenistan in Kabul on Thursday to discuss progress around the key project.

Murad Amanov, head of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline project, expressed his satisfaction with the recent progress of the project and talked about the practical roll out of the project.

Delawar said that the preliminary work of TAPI is progressing quickly and that the pipeline will be put into operation in the near future.

TAPI is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Galkynysh – TAPI Pipeline Company Limited with participation of the Asian Development Bank.

The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Galkynysh Gas Field in Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.

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