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A magnetic bomb blast in Bagrami district of Kabul city left two people injured, an official said. The Ministry of Interior Spokesman, Najib Danish said that the blast has targeted a vehicle related to the Attorney General Protection unit in Mirwais township in Bagrami district. He added that the blast …

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. …

Following the end of parliamentary elections, President Ashraf Ghani says the nation proved to the Taliban that they will not give up and will participate in the democratic process despite the threats being imposed by the militant group. Thanking the nation in a video message on Sunday, Ghani said that …

The long-awaited Parliamentary election finally concluded today Oct 21, about four million people cast their vote in 32 provinces of the country. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says nearly four hundred voting centers remained closed in some provinces due to the technical and security problems. “About four million people (67 …

The inhabitants of Logar province cast ballots in parliamentary elections under threat of Taliban violence that vowed to disrupt the process. The Police commander of Logar Muhammad Abdali has declared that the Taliban group launched several attacks on voting centers but abandoned the areas with suffering heavy casualties. Logar Province …

A number of lawyers based in Kabul said that the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has violated the electoral law by extending the voting process to second day. The parliamentary elections entered the second day, following the technical and security issues in a number of provinces. The voting process was resumed …

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has extended voting in the parliamentary elections to Sunday in some polling centers after technical and organizational problems stopped people casting their vote in some polling centers on Saturday. Speaking at a press conference, the IEC chief Abdulbadi Sayad said the voting process will continue …

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday telephoned his Afghan counterpart Salahuddin Rabbani to condole the death of senior government officials in a shooting in Kandahar yesterday. The death senior officials included Kandahar police chief Gen. Raziq and the provincial intelligence chief Gen. Momin Hussian Khail.  According to a …