KABUL (Pajhwok): President’s special representative for security in Helmand province has said 60 percent of Taliban militants in the southe province are ready to hold talks with the gove ment as they consider the war not a solution. Abdul Jabbar... Let's block ads! (Why?)

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By Mohammad Barat on 22 April 2016 AIBAK (Pajhwok): Officials of northe Samangan province said that militants on Friday blocked the road, co ecting Dara-i-Sawf Paeen district with Balkh province. A member of provincial council, Mohammad Qadir Baseej, told Pajhwok Afghan News that... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): A second high-level delegation of the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan party is expected to arrive in Kabul on Saturday to finalise talks with Afghan gove ment, a source said on Friday. Invited by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the three-member delegation headed by...

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Afghan special force shot dead three civilians and arrested eight others as a result of ove ight raid in the Sabari district of southeaste Khost province, officials said on Friday. During the Thursday night operation, the Special Forces killed a girl and her parents in Noorai v...

MAHMUD RAQI (Pajhwok): Militants killed a civilian on the charge of spying for Afghan gove ment in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, officials and people said on Friday. Insurgents killed a civilian on Thursday in the Miyakhel area of... Let's block ads! (Why?)

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): A Taliban key commander for Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital of central Logar, was killed and his two fighters were arrested by Afghan forces in the province, an official said on Friday. The Taliban commander, Mullah Rahim,... Let's block ads! (Why?)

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Five Afghan Local Police (ALP) perso el were killed, four wounded and five others went missing as a result of insurgent attack on a checkpoint in easte Nangarhar province, officials said on Friday. Taliban fighters attacked ALP checkpoint at around 3am in Waziro area of Khogyani...

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Religious scholars in southeaste Paktia province on Thursday demanded the establishment of an official fatwa centre, Dar al-Ifta, in the country. Religious scholar Mufti Attiqur Rahman Khalid told a gathering held in support of Afghan security forces here that the gove ment should ...

By Pajhwok Team on 21 April 2016 KABUL (Pajhwok): Hundreds of people, including religious scholars, on Thursday declared their support for the Afghan security and... read more

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By Zeerak Fahim on 21 April 2016 JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Six Taliban and four Islamic State militants were killed on Thursday in two separate airstrikes in easte Nangarhar... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): The New Attitude Organisation(NAO) on Thursday criticised West’s discriminatory attitude toward Afghan asylum seekers and asked the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) to check the double standards. NAO Director Abdul Qayyum... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has said the national flag will fly half-mast on Friday as a token of mou ing for the victims of Tuesday’s suicide bombing in the Kabul. At least 64 people were killed and 347 wounded in the car bomb attack on the VIP protection unit in the 16th police distric...

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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has suspended a number of senior police officials after the deadly suicide attack in Kabul. Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the police chief for the first district of Kabul had been suspended and referred for investigat...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Civil society activists in Kabul on Thursday demanded capital punishment for a detained Iranian boy accused of raping and killing a six-year-old Afghan refugee girl in Tehran. The victim, Sataesh Quraishi, was found dead in Tehran a... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): Security officials on Tuesday said militants continued to be equipped and financed by sources outside of Afghanistan and were trying to spread terror by killing i ocent people. Ministry of Interior spokesman Seddiq Seddiqqi told a... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) would prefer local companies for its construction projects under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on Tuesday. The cooperation and partnership MoU was signed between MoUD and the Afghanistan Builders Association (ABA) to support priv...

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