report in Khaama Press, Dec 24, 2020 at 03:27 PMMinistry of Defense in a statement said that the security forces have discovered and defused at least eight Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Kandahar Province. These IEDs were discovered in a series of Afghan National Security Force’s operations. The IEDs were discovered in the Shorabak and Maiwand districts of the region before they could inflict injuries or result in the deaths of many civilians. The ministry…
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report in Khaama Press, Dec 24, 2020 03:54 PMAt an event in Kabul on Thursday, Amrullah Saleh, The First Vice President said, that Afghanistan requires an acceptable peace to all sides and the public. He indicated that the Taliban has issues with the Afghan National Flag, its sovereignty, resources, constitution, and everything of the Afghan government. “Death, to be hanged, is far more honorable than an agreement where I take the right to vote away…
report in the News, dec 24, 2020LANDIKOTAL: The daily routine at the Torkham border town was disrupted for the second consecutive day on Wednesday day as Khugakhel tribesmen and labourers unions continued protests and sit-ins at two different points near the border with Afghanistan. Hundreds of Khugakhel tribesmen staged the protest at the Shaheed Mor near the border. They blocked the road some two kilometres from the zero point of the border with Afghanistan. The…
report on TOLOnews, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:09 AMActing US Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said after visiting US forces and American military leadership in Kabul on Tuesday said that special operations forces were the first deployed in the war in Afghanistan and likely will be the last troops to leave the country, according to a Stars and Stripes report. The report said that Miller traveled to Camp Morehead, located south of Kabul, where US special…
report on Khaama Press, 23 Dec 2020 at 09:21 AMAt least one person is killed and two others were injured in an explosion in the PD12 of Kabul city on Wednesday morning. Ferdows Faramarz, a spokesman for the Kabul Police HQ, told Khaama Press, that a Ranger-type vehicle had been targeted by a magnetic mine at around 06:55 am in the 12th district of Kabul city. Faramarz added, that one police officer was killed and…
report in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020KABUL: Two women doctors working at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed on Tuesday by a bomb stuck to their car, officials said. The blast happened in the south of the capital as they were on their way to Pul-i-Charkhi prison, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. Two other prison employees in the car — as well as a pedestrian — were also…
report on Khaama Press, 22 Dec 2020 at 02:07 PM HERAT, Afghanistan – The Afghan National Army (ANA) arrested at least three suspected Taliban in a battle with the group in western province of Herat, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday. According to the statement, the Taliban planned to carry attack against security forces in the city when they faced heavy retaliation by the national army. “3 #Taliban were arrested by ANA…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 23, 2020Pakistan has assured a visiting Afghan delegation that Islamabad would support whatever governance set-up emerged in the aftermath of the intra-Afghan dialogue currently under way between the Taliban and the government in Kabul in the Qatari capital. Dr Moeed Yusuf, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Security, suggested that the Track-II process between Pakistan and Afghanistan should complement Track-I process and assist it by providing the government…
report in The News, Dec 23,2020Islamabad: There is certainly a positive trajectory with regards to Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations. In the last few months, both sides have achieved significant progress, though there is a lot still to be done. For the first time, the parliaments on both sides are playing a very active role in addressing issues of mutual interest. Complex issues accumulating over years would take some time for resolution, said Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq, Prime…
By Pamela Constable and Sharif Hassan in The WAshington Post, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:38 p.m. GMT+5:30ISLAMABAD — Yousuf Rasheed was a soft-spoken, meticulous professional whose mission was to monitor and help strengthen the uneven progress of Afghan democracy, where presidential and parliamentary elections have been marred by fraud and violence. On Wednesday morning, Rasheed became the latest victim in an intensifying surge of lethal bombings and shootings that have targeted a variety of individuals,…
report in The Frontier Post / December 23, 2020Afghan Ministry of Defense stated on Wednesday, that 24 Taliban were killed in Maiwand and Zherai districts of Kandahar province. The Taliban fighters were killed before attacking ANDSF positions in the region, MoD stated the militants were “planning to attack” the Afghan national defense force’s positions. Meanwhile MoD tweeted, 16 Taliban militants were killed and 11 others are injured as the defense forces showed retaliation over Taliban…