Saleh Omar, district chief for Chardara district in Kunduz, was killed in a Taliban attack on Monday night, a local source confirmed.

The Taliban detonated a Humvee loaded with explosives in the Dawolat Abad district market on Monday night, local officials confirmed Tuesday.

President Ashraf Ghani met with US Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on Tuesday afternoon and discussed the peace process, the situation in Afghanistan and the region, and further support to the Afghan Security and Defense Forces, the Presidential Palace said.

The Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul announced on Tuesday that changes to its visa processing system, that was announced in September, have been rolled out across the embassy and its consulates across the country.

Abdullah will “discuss the Afghan peace process, regional support and bilateral relations” in Tajikistan, Abdullah’s office said. Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, left Kabul on Monday bound for Tajikistan to discuss the Afghan peace process, his office said in a statement. He is accompanied by a high-level delegation.

First Vice President Saleh personally took charge of overseeing Kabul security two months ago. Kabul witnessed at least 60 security-related incidents over the past two months in which 133 people were killed and 280 more wounded.

At least one civilian confirmed dead after a magnetic bomb went off in Police District 7 (PD7) of the Afghan capital Kabul early Tuesday morning, local security officials said.

A car bomb detonated in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed at least eight people and injured 15 others including a member of parliament, officials said. Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior, said terrorists conducted the attack on Sunday, causing severe damage to houses around the blast site.

The explosion occurred in Spin Kalay square in PD5 of the city while the convoy of an Afghan MP was passing the area. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Monday said that at least 10 people were killed and 52 others were wounded in Sunday’s car bomb attack on the convoy of an Afghan MP in Kabul.

Ghazni police said that the journalist was killed by unknown armed men in front of his home. A journalist in Ghazni, Rahmatullah Nikzad, who was also head of the journalists’ union in the province, was killed in an attack by armed men this evening, the provincial police said.