Новости за 04.08.2015

The father of the famous Indian film star Salman Khan has said they hail from Afghanistan while responding to protesters who demanded them to return to Pakistan. Salman’s father Salim Khan who is a screen writer in the Indian cinema has been under fire due to his son’s off-screen shenanigans and police case. According to Read the full article...

Amid deepening rift among the Taliban leadership following Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death confirmation, the Islamic State Of Iraq and Syria (ISSI) terrorist group has claimed breakthrough in its efforts to gain a foothold in the country. A spokesman for the terror group in Khorasan province claimed that pledges of allegiance to Islamic State is taking Read the full article...

Hundreds of drug addicts have been left without shelter after police torched their nest in Kabul. In their anti-drug campaign police went to the central living place of drug addicts in Kabul and set on fire all of their belongings. Around 500 drug addicts were estimated to be living under Pul-i-Sukhta Bridge in 6th police Read the full article...

There have been widening rift among the Taliban leaders on appointment of group’s new supreme leader amid reports suggesting the assassination of the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar’s son. However, sources privy of the developments have said Mullah Omar’s son Mullah Yaqoob is still alive but under house arrest on behest of the newly Read the full article...

Residents of Western Herat province  went to the Indian consulate on Tuesday and thanked them for playing a key role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Local musicians sung Indian songs and presented flowers to workers of the Indian consulate for its role in rebuilding the country particularly the Salma dam which is the biggest project of Read the full article...

Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), the intelligence agency, has prevented Daesh attacks in Logar province, the agency announced on Tuesday afternoon. A statement issued by the NDS states that a militant hideout belonging to Mohammad Ali Amarati, a former Taliban commander who had joined Daesh, was raided in recovering two explosive vests, two Kalashnikovs Read the full article...

Taliban militant group has rejected recent reports indicating that Mullah Mohammad Omar’s son Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub has been killed in Pakistan. Agha Jan Motasim who was Finance Minister during Taliban regime and currently holding a seat in Taliban’s leadership council has told BBC that Mullah Yaqoub is alive. Motasim has also said that he is Read the full article...

A group of Afghan surgeons in Kabul have carried out a successful operation to separate conjoined twins. The children were born conjoined in abdomen in Badakhshan province and were brought to French Medical Institute in Kabul in a hope of separation. A group of Afghan surgeons after several hours long operation were able to separate Read the full article...

Heavy exchange of fire between the soldiers of Pakistan and Indian on joint border has left three civilian killed and eleven others wounded. India says Pakistani soldiers opened unprovoked fire on the Indian side of the border leaving one civilian killed on Tuesday morning. According to India’s Border Security Force (BSF) a dozen of Indian Read the full article...

Mullah Mohammad Syed Tayyab Agha has reportedly resigned from his position as Taliban group’s head of the political office in Qatar. Accordig to the members of Taliban’s political commission in Qatar quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Tayyab Agha resigned on Monday. This comes as a splinter group of the Taliban group – Afghanistan Islamic Read the full article...

10 soldiers have embraced martyrdom and 53 militants killed in newest military operations across the country, Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday morning. According to the ministry the operations were carried by Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and personnel from the National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency in past 24 hours. Read the full article...

A former Jihadi commander and two Taliban shadow district governors have been killed in a clash in northern Samangan province. Mohammad Sediq Azizi, spokesman for the acting governor of Samangan province said that the clash erupted in Zeeraki village of Dara-i-Sof Payan on Sunday afternoon. He said Mullah Mohammad Karim, a former Jihadi commander, was Read the full article...

Afghan Minister of Finance Hakimi, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan P. Michael McKinley, and the USAID Mission Director William Hammink signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the New Development Partnership on August 3, 2015. The New Development Partnership reflects the strategic importance of the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship and recognizes a new era of development cooperation between Read the full article...