The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
The provincial government media office in a statement said the vehicle was seized in Torkham Township by the operatives of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
The statement further added that the Ammonium Nitrate was placed in 156 sacks and were hidden under the vegetables.
According to the provincial government, the snuffies had imported the Ammonium Nitrate from Pakistain and were looking to use them in their future attacks.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups frequently use explosives materials for the roadside kaboomings and boom-mobileings to target the government staff and security personnel.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted besides such bombings incur casualties to the security personnel and in some cases the Talibs themselves are killed or maimed.
A total of 10,453 civilian casualties ‐ 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured ‐ were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released last month by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office.
The report further added that the high number of casualties to the civilians were inflicted by suicide kabooms and other attacks using improvised bombs (IEDs).