Report in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 8, 2023 at 15:28 hrsSenior CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Mukunda Neupane has quit the party. Neupane, who comes third in the party hierarchy after Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal, announced deserting the party at a press meet in the Capital on Saturday. Addressing the press meet, Neupane said the party is trapped in the quagmire of the ruling coalition, accusing the party leadership of being guided by closed-door…
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report in Khaama Press online, Apr 1, 2023Former military doctor Shabir Shirzad who served former Afghan intelligence agency, was shot dead by Taliban forces in Northern Parwan province on Friday evening, local sources confirmed. A former military doctor, aged 32, while he was heading to the capital city of Kabul, Taliban took him out of his vehicle and shot him in Ghorband district on Friday around 6:00 Pm local time; his brother has confirmed the…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, January 23th, 2023PESHAWAR: A police patrolling party narrowly escaped an IED (improvised explosive device) attack in the Gula Khan Zangal area, southwest of the provincial capital bordering Khyber district, on Sunday. The bomb, weighing around one kilogram, was planted on a roadside within the jurisdiction of Badhber Police Station and it went off seconds after the police van passed through the site, police said, adding the police party remained unhurt.…
AFP report, January 16, 2023KABUL: Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said on Sunday. Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the US-backed government that was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021. “Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. “The security forces…
By Pamela Constable in The Washington Post, Jan 7, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. ESTKABUL — Taliban authorities have embarked on an ambitious project to change the face of the Afghan capital, a crowded metropolis of 5 million that still displays the scars, monuments and fads of periods of civil conflict, foreign invasion and new-money opulence. The Kabul municipal government, which provides utility services to homes and businesses and then collects fees to support its budget,…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 31, 2022The BNP and like-minded political parties have begun their simultaneous demonstrations with the former organising a large procession in the capital yesterday afternoon. Activists of the like-minded parties also organised processions in different parts of the city. The BNP and the other parties announced that they would hold a sit-in programme on January 11 in Dhaka and the other divisional cities to press home their 10-point demand that…
by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Though the interior minister claimed two days ago that suspects had been arrested in connection with last week’s terror attack in the capital, no one has so far been produced in court. Despite failure to produce the suspects in the court to make their arrest or detention legal, the capital police also remained silent over the details of the development including identification of the suspects. On Tuesday,…
by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, Dec 27th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Investigators of last Friday’s bomb blast in the capital have suspected that the terrorist had reached the capital the same day in a passenger vehicle from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Sources close to the investigation said the investigators had detected the presence of a person at Karak, Pirwadhai and I-10/4 the same day and suspected that he might be the bomber. The suspect’s presence was spotted at Pirwadhai…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 22, 2022A court in Dhaka placed Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Md Shafiqur Rahman on a three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with capital’s Jatrabari Police Station for his alleged involvement in militancy, reports BSS. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur on Thursday passed the order as police produced the Jamaat chief before the court after the end of his seven-day remand in the case and pleaded for placing him…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 12, 2022Following an operation by intelligence forces in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, local officials claimed to have discovered and destroyed an ISIS hideout. The intelligence operation reportedly took place in Jalalabad’s police district 4 on late Sunday, December 11, after obtaining intelligence information, according to the state-run Bakhtar News Agency. According to the local officials cited in Bakhtar’s report, during the…
By Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press online, Nov 30, 2022At least 10 students were confirmed dead and many others were injured following an explosion at the Al-Jihadi seminary in the provincial capital of Samangan, in northern Afghanistan. The Ministry of Interior’s spokesperson, Abdul Nafi Takor, tweeted that 10 students were killed and dozens more were injured as a result of the explosion on Wednesday afternoon, November 30. According to the Interior Ministry official, the explosion…