Новости за 26.01.2016

The social media has been rife with reports and pictures of a kid wearing a plastic with the football star Lionel Messi’s name written on it. The photographs of the kid hailing from southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan went viral on social media today with earlier speculations suggesting that the kid is an Iraqi Kurd. Read the full article...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has ordered the security institutions to use every mean in protecting media organizations. President Ghani told this to a visiting delegation of Moby Group at the Presidential Palace ‘ARG’ on Tuesday. He further said that media is independent and its government’s responsibility to maintain security of the media organizations and their Read the full article...

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has busted six terrorist groups in past two weeks. According to a statement released by NDS on Tuesday, the groups were busted in Logar, Helmand, Kandahar, Takhar, Paktika and Faryab province. “The terrorists planned to kill people and carry out other terrorist and destructive activities Read the full article...

10 policemen have embraced martyrdom in an ‘insider attack’ at a security post in central Urozgan province. Officials suspect that Taliban had established links with a policeman at the same security post in Chinartu District for coordinating the attack on Monday night. The policeman reportedly had mixed chemicals in the dinner to make his colleagues Read the full article...

Police have arrested 20 suspects on different charges including murder, robbery, selling drugs and illegally carrying weapons  in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced on Tuesday. A statement released by the ministry states that the suspects were arrested during separate raids from 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 13th police districts and areas related to Chahar Read the full article...

Officials say Taliban militants have been driven out of Tagab District of northeastern Badakhshan province. Ahmad Naweed Ferotan told Khaama Press on Tuesday that the operation to clear all parts of Tagab from Taliban took two days. He said people returned to normal life since yesterday. “Taliban have been completely driven out of Tagab District,” Read the full article...

Pakistani media have been publishing a report since Monday that Mullah Fazlullah, leader of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who is held responsible for some deadly attacks in Pakistan has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. They have been citing Gulf News as the source for this report. The media organizations further write that unconfirmed Read the full article...

A Taliban commander and three other militants have been killed by military and police in eastern Nangarhar province. A statement released by the 201st Selab Military Corps in the country’s east states that Qari Rafiullah, a prominent commander of Taliban, was killed during operation Shaheen 13 in Koz Behar area of Khogyani District on Monday. The statement Read the full article...