2026.2.27 Pakistan launches airstrikes against Afghan-based ‘militants’ it blames for cross-border attacks
Islamabad — Pakistan said Sunday it carried out airstrikes on militant camps across the border in Afghanistan, in a serious test of an uneasy peace between the neighbors.
Pakistan’s information ministry said its military conducted “intelligence-based, selective operations” against seven camps belonging to militants it blames for a recent series of deadly attacks on its soil. The strikes targeted the Pakistani Taliban – also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – and its affiliates, as well as a group associated with the Islamic State.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the strikes in a statement, calling them a “blatant violation of Afghanistan’s national sovereignty” and a “clear breach” of international law.
The strikes took place in civilian areas in the eastern Afghan provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika, targeting a religious seminary and “multiple civilian homes,” the ministry said.
Women and children were among the 18 people killed, Sayed Tayeb Hamad, a senior police official in Nangarhar, said on Afghan state television. The bodies of the victims were still being dug out from under the rubble on Sunday morning, according to state media reports.
The airstrikes came after a month of deadly attacks within Pakistan, the most recent being the killing of two soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, by militants in the country’s northwest on Saturday, officials said.
Earlier this month, dozens of people were killed by a suicide blast in a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.
Pakistan’s information ministry said on Sunday that the country had “conclusive evidence” that the February attacks were carried out by militants at the “behest of their Afghanistan based leadership and handlers.”
This new escalation will test the delicate ceasefire that has been in place between the neighboring countries since last October, after they traded their deadliest fire in years.
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2026.2.27 A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality based on gender and social status.
Comprised of 119 articles, the 60-page Decree No. 12 lays out penalties for women who visit their relatives without their husband’s permission, and allows husbands and the heads of households to determine and mete out punishment in their own homes.
The decree states that a man who beats his wife severely enough to cause a visible cut, wound or bruise faces 15 days in prison – if his wife can prove her case to a judge. But a woman who goes to her father’s house and stays there without her husband’s permission is punished by a three months in prison, as are her relatives if they do not return her to her husband.
Afghan authorities have often issued laws laying out various prohibitions, including bans on education for girls beyond primary school, on women working in most jobs, and mandates on how women should dress and behave. But the decree is the first full penal code issued by the government.
The new penal code also lays out different treatment for the same crime depending on social class, ranging from simple warnings for clerics to corporal punishment for those deemed to be at the lowest social rungs.
Scholars and “high-ranking people” face a warning from a judge; tribal leaders and businessmen receive a warning and a court summons; “average people of society” face imprisonment; and “the lower classes” are subject to physical beatings. If an offender is sentenced to a maximum 39 lashes, they must be to “different parts of the body,” the decree states.
However, the differing treatment does not apply in murder cases, where anyone found guilty faces the death penalty. The other capital offense is insulting the Prophet Muhammad, although in that case the death penalty can be converted to six years imprisonment if the offender repents.
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مسئولان ریاست زراعت، آبیاری و مالداری کندهار میگویند که نیروهای امنیتی ولسوالی سپین بولدک از قاچاق ۴۶ رأس گاو از پاکستان به کندهار جلوگیری کردهاند.
به گفته مسئولان، این گاوها از سوی شماری از افراد از طریق خط فرضی دیورند بهگونه غیرقانونی وارد کشور میشد که در نتیجه اقدام بهموقع نیروهای امنیتی ضبط گردید. در پیوند به این قضیه، سه تن نیز بازداشت شدهاند که پس از فیصله محکمه، با آنان برخورد قانونی صورت خواهد گرفت.
قابل ذکر است که در این اواخر تلاشهای مسئولان امنیتی در امتداد خط فرضی دیورند افزایش یافته و تأکید میشود که به هیچکس اجازه داده نخواهد شد تا حیوانات را بهگونه قاچاقی وارد یا خارج نماید. همچنان یک هفته پیش نیز از قاچاق ۹ رأس گاو جلوگیری شده بود.
2026.2.18 Over 500 musical instruments set alight in Parwan
CHARIKAR : The Department for the Promotion of Virtue, Prevention of Vice, and Hearing Complaints in central Parwan province reported the burning of more than 500 musical instruments and related items.
Mawlawi Maqbool Ahmad Waqas, head of the department, told Pajhwok that these items, used for dancing and celebrations at ceremonies, had been collected over the past year from the provincial center and districts.
He said that today (Wednesday), the instruments were burned in the Gulghandi area in the presence of officials from the provincial government, intelligence department, and other relevant authorities.
Waqas emphasized that the action was part of ongoing efforts to combat vice and urged residents to refrain from using items considered contrary to Sharia law.
2026.2.4 Over 6,000kg of narcotics torched in Ghor
FEROZKOH : More than 6,200 kilogrammes of various types of narcotics were set alight in western Ghor province on Wednesday, an official said.
Police spokesman Mawlavi Abdul Rahman Badri told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs had been seized during multiple operations conducted by security forces.
He said: “The destroyed substances included 202.6-kg of ‘Ef’-type drugs, 10.1-kg of opium, four kilogrammes of raw cannabis, 4.1-kg of crystal meth and 600-kg of processed hashish. All of these were seized from traffickers and destroyed today.”
However, he did not provide information on whether anyone had been arrested in connection with the trafficking.
ZARANJ/HERAT CITY : Security forces have prevented the smuggling of more than one tonne of medicines in northwestern Nimroz province and seized 170 kilograms of opium in western Herat province.
Mawlavi Gul Mohammad Qudrat, spokesperson for the Nimroz Police, said the Zaranj-Dalram highway battalion intercepted 159 cartons of medical drugs, weighing a total of 1,391 kilograms.
He added that the medicines were being transported in a Suzuki vehicle and were intended for smuggling to Helmand province. Two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case.
Meanwhile, in Herat, security forces recovered and seized 170 kilograms of opium during an operation on the Herat-Farah highway, provincial police headquarters said in a statement.
The narcotics had been skillfully concealed in a private vehicle. One person has been arrested in relation to the case and is currently under the supervision of security forces.
2026.1.6 درگیری با شرکت استخراج طلا در تخار سه کشته برجا گذاشت
زارت امور داخله تأیید کرده است که در پی درگیری میان باشندگان محل و مسئولان یک شرکت زرشویی در ولسوالی چاهآب ولایت تخار، سه نفر جان باخته و پنج تن دیگر زخمی شدهاند.
ه گزارش افغان نیوز: عبدالمتین قانع، سخنگوی وزارت داخله، امروز (چهارشنبه، ۱۷ جدی) گفته است که افراد مظنون به قتل، شامل یک تن از کارمندان امنیتی شرکت و یک تن از باشندگان محل، از سوی پولیس بازداشت شدهاند.
به گفته او، تحقیقات برای شناسایی سایر عاملان احتمالی این رویداد همچنان ادامه دارد.
همزمان با این رویداد، معاون والی تخار به ولسوالی چاهآب سفر کرده تا وضعیت را از نزدیک بررسی کرده و روند پیگیری این حادثه را مدیریت کند.
وزارت داخله افزوده است که فعالیتهای شرکت دخیل در این قضیه بهگونه موقت متوقف شده و بررسیهای پولیس برای روشن شدن تمام ابعاد حادثه جریان دارد.
از سوی دیگر، وزارت معادن و پترولیم امارت اسلامی نیز اعلام کرده است که یک هیئت ولایتی را برای بررسی درگیری اخیر میان باشندگان محلی و شرکت استخراج طلا به ولسوالی چاهآب اعزام کرده است.
همایون افغان، سخنگوی این وزارت، روز سهشنبه در گفتوگو با رسانهها تأیید کرد که این درگیری به تلفات جانی و خسارات مالی انجامیده و پس از تکمیل بررسیها، گزارش جامع هیئت با رسانهها شریک ساخته خواهد شد.
این رویداد در حالی رخ داده است که فعالیت شرکتهای استخراجی در برخی مناطق کشور پیش از این نیز با اعتراضها و تنشهای محلی همراه بوده است.
2025.11.17 پولیس کابل: مرگ فرخنده ناشی از سکته مغزی بود
رماندهی امنیه کابل اعلام کرد که مرگ خانمی به نام «فرخنده»، که در روزهای اخیر بازتابهایی مشکوک در شبکههای اجتماعی داشته، بنا بر اظهارات خانوادهاش در نتیجه سکته مغزی رخ داده است.
ه گزارش افغان نیوز: خالد زدران، سخنگوی فرماندهی امنیه کابل، گفت که خانواده متوفا تأیید کردهاند فرخنده دو روز پیش بر اثر سکته مغزی جان باخته و هیچگونه نشانهای از خشونت یا حادثه جنایی در این رابطه وجود ندارد.
به گفته زدران، پولیس پس از نشر شایعات در شبکههای اجتماعی، بررسیهای ابتدایی را آغاز کرده و تاکنون «هیچ جنبه مشکوک» در این قضیه مشاهده نشده است.
او افزود که خانواده متوفا نیز «هیچ شک یا شکایتی علیه کسی» مطرح نکردهاند.
با وجود این، سخنگوی پولیس تاکید کرد که بررسی و تحقیقات بیشتر در مورد این رویداد همچنان ادامه دارد تا هرگونه ابهام احتمالی رفع شود.
خبر مرگ «فرخنده» که دو روز پیش رخ داد، ابتدا بدون ارائه جزئیات پزشکی منتشر شد و این خلا اطلاعاتی باعث شد در شبکههای اجتماعی گمانهزنیهای مختلفی شکل بگیرد. کاربران برخی رسانهها و شبکههای اجتماعی با انتشار پیامها و ویدئوهای کوتاه، مرگ او را مشکوک قلمداد کردند.
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