The residents of Janikhail district of Paktika province said the number of drug addicts has recently surged in the town and they include police and women as well. Counter-Narcotics Department Director Omaid Malak acknowledged the number of drug addicts had increased in Janikhail. “The cultivation of poppy in Janikhail is zero but still the number of addicts is on the rise,” he said. Malak said...
Unidentified gunmen killed former Jihadi Commander of Jamiat-i-Islami (JI) in the Syedkhel district of Parwan province on Tuesday. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zaman Mamozai said unknown gunmen killed Asif near the main district bazaar. He said the assailants managed to flee the area but police have launched the search. The slain Jihadi commander had no official job currently, he added. ...
Minister of Finance Eklil Hakimi and World Bank Country Director Shubham Chaudhuri on Tuesday signed three grant agreements worth 691 million USD to help revitalize Afghanistan’s economy and improve access to quality healthcare. Minister of Public Health Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Shahzad Aryobee and acting vice-president of World Bank for South Asia Ethel Sennhauser were present at the signing...
Local officials in Nangarhar said that unidentified gunmen have partially torched a school in the Momand Dara district of Nangarhar province. Mohammad Asif Shinwari, the education department spokesman, said the gunmen set alight the administration block of Hazar Naw High School on Monday night. He said about 12 arsonists tied up hand of two watchmen before attacking the school. Shinwari urged detective organs and tribal elders...
At least 15 Taliban insurgents were killed and eight injured in clashes with Afghan security forces in Chesht district of Herat province. Abdul Ahad Walizada, spokesman for Herat police, told Killid that the incident occurred in Sarbesha area of the district. Walizada added that one policeman and a public uprising member were also killed during the clashes. Taliban militants are yet to comment. ...
An escalating war of words has broken out between Moscow and Washington over a suspected chemical attack in a Syrian rebel-held town, raising international tensions amid calls for action at an urgent UN Security Council meeting. The US, Britain, France and six other countries requested Monday's emergency session after rescue teams and medics said a "poisonous chlorine gas attack" in Douma on Saturday killed...
Construction work on residential township for Afghan female police has begun in Kabul. The township is estimated to cost 120 million USD, which will be funded by Canada, UK and South Korea. The project is expected to be completed in two years and in four phases. Commander of international forces in Afghanistan, John Nicholson, also said that policewomen were playing significant role in ensuring security of...
At least six civilians were killed and nine others injured in an explosion in Shindand district of Herat province yesterday. Shindand officials said explosives had been placed in a rickshaw and detonated in Shendad bazaar at about 4pm. Hospital officials also confirmed the incident and said six bodies had been taken to the local hospital. According to them, three children were among the wounded. Eyewitnesses said the...
A man was arrested after gunning down his wife and parents in Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar, last night. Noor Mohammad hailing from Sherzad district killed his wife and parents due to family violence in PD 5th of Jalalabad. A press release from Nangarhar governor’s house stated that the man has been arrested by police and has confessed to his crime. The statement added that the...
President Ashraf Ghani received Uzbekistan’s special representative for Afghanistan yesterday evening in ARG (Presidential Palace). A press release from ARG stated that the Uzbek representative expressed his goal to visit Afghanistan as tracking the decisions made by presidents of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan in Tashkent. The statement added that Ghani said two working groups, composed of the representatives of the two sides, should be established where...