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Seven killed in Kabul fuel station fire
At least seven were killed in a fire on Saturday night at a fuel station in the northern part of Kabul city, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
“Seven people were killed in last night’s fire in District 17 at a fuel station,” said the ministry.
According to the ministry 14 others were injured in the incident. However tanker drivers claim the death toll is higher.
According to the ministry, the incident took place in the Karez-e Mir area in Shakardara district, Kabul province.
On Sunday, a number of drivers and locals affected by the fire took to the Kabul-North highway and blocked the road demanding compensation from government.
According to the district governor, one of the problems is the checkpoint close to the fuel station.
“Several times we have asked government to move the safety cordon of the northern gate of Kabul away from residential houses, but nothing has been done,” Shakara district governor Gohar Khan Babari told Ariana News.
The fire also caused a power outage to the area and other parts of Kabul.
However, according to Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) technicians were able to reconnect the power lines by early Sunday afternoon.
The exact cause of the fire has not been confirmed but some locals said an IED has been detonated at the fuel station.
Police are investigating the incident.
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Russian defense minister says main threat for SCO countries emanates from Afghanistan
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said on Friday that the main threat for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members emanates from Afghanistan where international terrorist groups find shelter due to unstable and indefinite political situation.
Speaking at a meeting of the SCO defense ministers in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Shoygu said Washington has stepped up efforts to restore its positions in Central and South Asia that were lost after the withdrawal of coalition troops from Afghanistan, Anadolu Agency reported.
The military chief called “unacceptable” the deployment of the American military infrastructure in the region, arguing that intentions should be regarded as “a direct threat to stability in the SCO space.”
According to him, the US is trying to impose a new security system in the Asia-Pacific region for dominance.
This comes as the Islamic Emirate has repeatedly emphasized that it does not allow anyone to pose threats to any other country from Afghanistan soil.
Recently, Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, Acting Minister of National Defense Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid said that no destructive groups including Daesh have physical presence in Afghanistan,
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IEA calls Mujahideen Victory Day ‘freedom day’
In a statement on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the victory of the Mujahideen against the then communist government, the Islamic Emirate said that it is a day of freedom of the Afghan nation.
The Islamic Emirate described the coup by People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan on 27th April 1978 as a dark day in history, as a result of which the people of Afghanistan suffered severe human and financial losses.
The statement said that the Afghan nation suffered huge casualties in their 14-year struggle against the thoughts and actions of the communists, as 1.5 million people died and millions more faced various hardships.
“After 20 years of Jihad, our country was freed from another occupation and the Islamic system was established, so the Islamic Emirate will make its utmost efforts so that the fruits of decades of sacrifice and struggle of this nation are not wasted,” the statement said.
“It was the wish of the martyrs to fully implement the Islamic system in the country, and therefore, the Islamic Emirate is trying to facilitate development and prosperity under the shadow of the Islamic system in order to realize the goals of the Afghan people’s jihads,” it added.
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Pakistan extends registered Afghan refugees’ stay till June 30
Pakistan’s government on Friday extended the stay of Afghan refugees in the country till June 30, amid repatriation of illegal foreign nationals.
There are around 1.3 million registered Afghans living in Pakistan, according to a spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Islamabad, Dawn newspaper reported.
“On the recommendation of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, the federal cabinet approved the extension of the validity of PoR cards of Afghan refugees from April 1, 2024, to June 30, 2024,” said an official statement, issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The PoR cardholders will be repatriated in the third phase of the plan that will begin after the repatriation of “illegal foreign nationals” residing in Pakistan is completed, the statement added.
The PoR card holders avail schools, bank accounts and other facilities in Pakistan.
Repatriation of undocumented refugees began on November 1 and continues. More than 500,000 Afghans have been expelled so far.
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