Kandahar residents said they expect improvement in the security situation of the province with the new changes. The new governor and the new head of the NDS office in Kandahar were introduced to their colleagues by the National Security Adviser at a ceremony in the province on Sunday.

Taliban shadow governor for Sangin district of southern Helmand province has been killed in an airstrike by the Afghan forces, the Defense Ministry (MoD) claimed.

The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) said at least 130 criminals have been arrested in the past three months in Herat.

Pakistan has cancelled about 200,000 national identity cards fraudulently obtained by Afghanistan refugees.

At least five people were killed and nine wounded in an explosion in Kapisa province on Sunday afternoon, a local official confirmed.

The deputy spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday that the reason why the US has not suffered casualties among its forces in the past 10 months is because the foreign forces are no longer fighting in Afghanistan.