A woman abducted a newborn baby from a hospital in Khogyani district, said Farid Khan, spokesman for Nangarhar’s police chief. Police found and rescued the baby in Surkh Rod district of the province, according to the spokesman. The woman was resident of Pachiragam district living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area. The baby was handed over to its parents on Wednesday....
In a statement released Wednesday, the Ministry of Information and Culture said that Gul Zaman, Afghan prominent singer, was declared as “Father of Pashto Music” and Safdar Tawakuli as “Master of Dambora”, a musical instrument. The Afghan singers received the titles at a ceremony held on this occasion by the Ministry of Information and Culture. Tahir Zuhair, caretaker of the ministry said that the Afghan...
Herat governor Sayed Wahid Qitali confirmed the attack, claiming the Taliban have suffered casualties. A security source in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, however, said that late last night the car bomb attack targeted security outposts in Kohsan district of the province. As many as six Public Uprising Forces were killed and another seven wounded in the explosion, according to the source. The Taliban officials have...
Unknown armed men opened fire and killed a mobile engineer in Bazazi area of Ghazni’s capital city, said governor spokesman Wahidullah Jumazada. Shukrullah was killed since he was allegedly repairing mobile phones belonging to government forces, according to the spokesman. The gunmen managed to flee the area, according to Mr. Jumazada, who added police efforts were underway to arrest them. No individual or armed...
An explosive device was placed at a side of a road in Kulangar area of the provincial capital, Shahpor Ahmadzai, spokesman for the provincial police chief, said. Police found and defused the roadside bomb, he added. Afghanistan, already gripped by decades-long war and violence, has been witnessing a rise in bomb attacks. ...
“We are still witnessing the worst [government] agencies, [which refrain] providing information to media, said Ainuddin Bahaduri, chairman of the Access to Information Commission, on Wednesday at a press conference rolling out the government’s accountability program. It is impossible to fight corruption in the country if there is no transparency in access to information, according to Mr. Bahaduri. Also, it has been months since the...
The vaccine campaign has been kicked off in other provinces too. According to health officials in the Afghan eastern province of Nangarhar, as many as 24,620 shots of COVID-19 vaccine has been distributed for the province to inoculate 12,310 people, giving everyone two doses. Nasir Ahmad Durani, head of the provincial health department, said on Wednesday that healthcare workers as well as Afghan military personnel...
Armed Taliban on Tuesday evening around 6:00pm local time pulled Narmgo out of his car and killed him, said provincial police spokesman Ahmad Jawed Besharat. Narmgo was killed near Street 5 of provincial sugar factory as he left Central Baghlan district for his home, the spokesman said. The Afghan press freedom organization, NAI or Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, in a statement released Tuesday night...
“The purpose of the visit is to expand bilateral relations, strengthen regional and international consensus on the Afghan peace process, and to increase cooperation in the joint fight against terrorism and organized crime in the region,” read a statement by Afghan Ministry of Defense. According to the statement, Foreign Minister and his delegation is set to meet with his Russian counterpart and other senior...
According to Afghan health ministry, at least two more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 2,438. Also, as many as 16 new cases of infection were reported in the country, bringing the nationwide case count to 55,680. The new infection cases were registered in Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Maidan Wardak, Kunduz and Kapisa provinces. Some 49,086 patients have recovered from...