Taliban militants have cut off the ink-stained fingers of 8 Afghan men in Farah, Badghis and Helmand provinces as a punishment for participating in the parliamentary election. Farid Bakhtawar, the provincial council head of Farah said Taliban insurgents stopped vehicles in Bala Bolok district and cut off the fingers of four …

The inhabitants of the Rodat district of Nangarhar province have claimed that at least 17 civilians including children were killed during Afghan National and Defense Security Forces’ operation. The families of victims’ staged protest and laid the bodies of the deceased next to the Jalalabad-Torkham route and closed the highway …

Pakistan will be held responsible if they do not make sincere efforts to curb terrorism on their western border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Pompeo made the comments while answering a question during a press briefing at the State Department on Tuesday. “I had a chance …

The U.S. in a joint action with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf governments have blacklisted nine individuals associated with Afghanistan’s Taliban, including two Iranian military officers and a Pakistani. The announcement by the U.S. Treasury Department on October 23 says the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) blacklisted the individuals in …

Pakistani Foreign Office has rejected Kabul’s allegations as “baseless” and unfounded” regarding a recent attack in Kandahar, in which senior Afghan officials were killed. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Pakistan’s FO said: “Pakistan rejects baseless and unfounded allegations regarding the latest Kandahar attacks. No hard evidence or intelligence-related …

The World Bank will provide $403 million to support education and rural women in Afghanistan. The agreements were signed on Tuesday by Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, the Acting Minister of Finance and Chief Advisor on Infrastructure and Technology to the President, and Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan in …

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says last week’s shooting in Kandahar which killed the provincial police chief Gen. Raziq was planned in Pakistan, asking the country to hand over the plotters of the attack to Kabul. Visiting Kandahar province on Tuesday to express sympathy with the family of General Raziq, Ghani …

A regional chief of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) is expected to be referred to judiciary institutions over poor management in parliamentary elections which were held on Saturday this week.   More than four million people voted out of a total of 8.6 million registered voters in the polling which …

A service member of NATO’s mission- Resolute Support in Afghanistan was killed in Herat province in a possible insider attack, Resolute Support said on Monday. “Two other Resolute Support service members were wounded in the incident. Initial reports indicate the attack was committed by a member of the Afghan security …

The inhabitants of Surkh-Rod district of Nangarhar province have claimed that five civilians were killed during an operation by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) forces. They warned to stage protest and called for serious investigation regarding the issue. The angry residents of Surkh-Rod have brought the corpses in front …

The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Monday claimed that the election commission has “deliberately” closed polling stations in some regions despite being assured of the security of the centers. More than four million people voted out of a total of 8.6 million registered voters in the parliamentary elections which …

The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has criticized the Independent Election Commission (IEC)’s shortcomings in election and accepted that some of the people were deprived of their voting rights. “There is no justification for the repetition of failures, and clear answers should be given to the people,” Abdullah said. The chairman …

Intelligence Chief Massoum Stanekzai on Monday said that Kandahar provincial governor’s security guard who killed Kandahar Police Chief General Abdul Raziq last week made a phone call minutes before the attack to someone across the border.  Speaking at a press conference in Kandahar province, Stanekzai said the killer of Gen. …