Nangarhar (East Afghanistan): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2022

On January 5, unidentified gunmen shot dead a rickshaw driver in the Saracha Ali Khan area of Police District (PD) 9 of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar, reports Etilaatroz. Read less...

On January 10, a senior security official confirmed that Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader, Khalid Balti alias Mohammad Khurasani, was killed in Nangarhar Province, reports Dawn. Details on the circumstances surrounding the killing were not clear. However, a spokesman for the Afghan government denied the killing of the senior TTP member and said that no such incident had taken place. "I do not confirm these reports. They are not true. No such incident has taken place on this (Afghan) side," Afghan government spokesperson Bilal Karimi told Dawn.com. Read less...

On January 23, Taliban fighters tortured a former employee of the erstwhile regime, Qari Usman, to death in Ghani Khel District of Nangarhar Province, reports the Facebook page of Nangarhar Spinghar News. Read less...

On January 24, a bomb exploded near Sarai Bazaar in Kama District of Nangarhar Province, reports the Facebook page of Nangarhar Spinghar News. Read less...