The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan has said civilian casualties caused by improvised explosive devices surged by over 60 per cent in past two months.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has conferred over ceasefire with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, and U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.
Abdullah Abdullah, chairman High Council for National Reconciliation, has said the venue for intra-Afghan talks should not to be allowed to undermine the peace process.
A phenomenal 31 per cent of civilian casualties in past six months were caused by targeted assassinations, the Independent Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday.
Vice President Amrullah Saleh revealed on Tuesday investigations suggest up to 90 per cent motorcycles with pillion riders are involved in terrorist activities in Kabul.
The interior ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the deputy governor of Kabul province got killed in a magnetic bomb blast.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Sunday endorsed the idea of completing the remaining parts of the ongoing intra-Afghan negotiations inside Afghanistan.
Officials in Kunduz on Monday said at least 10 security forces got killed and 3 others were wounded in the Taliban attacks.
Reports emerging from Kandahar suggest at least 12 members of a family were killed in an airstrike by security forces in Arghandab district.
The National Security Adviser has suggested the intra-Afghan negotiations can be completed inside Afghanistan.
Vice President Amrullah Saleh claimed on Saturday the ‘Daeshi Taliban’ have threatened of a ‘massacre of the Shiite in Kabul’ if inmates associated with the insurgents are awarded death sentence.
The Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday that multiple rockets fired on various spots in Kabul killed at least one person.
