The Global News Desk 115

KABUL, Afghanistan  —  The Ministry of Repatriation and Refugees (MORR) reports that 175 more Afghan citizens returned home on Sunday after being released from Pakistani prisons. According to border authorities in Kandahar's Spin Boldak town, the ministry announced via social media that 175 Afghans were apprehended in various regions of Pakistan, where they subsequently spent periods of detention ranging from one to three days. The refugees who returned were taken back to their home regions after receiving humanitarian assistance, according to the government. Approximately 130 Afghan refugees were released from Pakistani prisons and repatriated on Thursday and Friday.  Over the past year, Pakistan has deported thousands of Afghans who were imprisoned and returned to Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan  —  Two different traffic incidents in southeast Afghanistan led to at least 52 deaths and 76 injuries. According to Ghazni province officials, a bus and oil tanker collided on the Kabul-Kandahar highway late Wednesday. The second accident happened on another area of the same roadway that links the south with the Afghan capital. A government spokeswoman said Thursday that 76 people were injured and 52 including women and children were killed in two separate traffic crashes in southeast Afghanistan.  The incident occurred late Wednesday on the same highway in Ghazni province, which connects southern Kandahar city to the capital, Kabul. "Every one of the victims has been identified and handed over to their families, while the survivors are now being treated at local hospitals," a local search and rescue agency branch correspondent confirmed.  Fatal road accidents like this are common in Afghanistan due to overspeeding, narrow roads, and poorl...

KABUL, Afghanistan  —  Khalil Haqqani, Afghanistan's minister for refugees, was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghan state television said yesterday. Khalil Haqqani, Minister for Refugees, was killed on Wednesday when an assailant entered the ministry's Kabul headquarters and blew himself up, according to a news report.  However, the Afghan local news source said that the explosion was a suicide attack and that Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani was heading toward the mosque when it happened.  Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Haqqani network, has a brother named Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the current interior minister, was also his uncle. Anas Haqqani, Khalil-ur-Rehman  Haqqani's nephew acknowledged the death.  The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that assassinated Afghanistan's refugee minister in his Kabul office, according to a  terrorist watchdog Website.

The earthquake in Afghanistan has killed at least 950 people and injured hundreds more, Afghan authorities confirmed.  About 950 people have died and more than 1500 have been injured, a top disaster management official said during a news briefing. Air ambulance service was activated in the eastern Paktika province to transport severely injured to hospitals.  According to Taliban leader Hibatullah Ahundzada, hundreds of homes have been destroyed and the death toll is expected to rise.  When the earthquake near the host city occurred on Tuesday shortly after 1:30 a.m. local time, many people were at home and sound sleeping in their beds.

Abdul Wahab Lark, a Pakistani-wanted terrorist, was killed in Kandahar.  The terrorist intended to plan suicide attacks in Urban and rural Sindh. Pakistan's most wanted terrorist was gunned down in Kandahar on Tuesday.  According to media reports,  Wahab Lark was killed by an unidentified man on 22 March 2022 in Afghanistan's  Kandahar.  Lark was also involved in the planning of attacks on army aviation bases, PAF base Samungli, minority sect target killings, and multiple attacks in North Waziristan.  Terrorist Abdul Wahab defected from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to the banned TTP in August 2020. Abdul Wahab was named in the Red Book, the CTD's list of the most wanted terrorists in Sindh. On January 30, 2015, terrorist Abdul Wahab carried out the attack at Imambargah Shikarpur.  In the attack, about 70  worshipers were martyred and 57 were injured.