AT News Report KABUL: For the first time National Journalists Day was marked in Kabul on Monday with participation of government officials, reporters, representative of media outlets, and other free media lover including the UNAMA head. The commemoration made after the National Unity Government named 27th Hoot, March 18, as …
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AT News Report KABUL: The provincial council of northern Faryab province warns that the Qaisar district would likely fall to Taliban, with Sayed Abdul Baqi Hashemi a member of the council saying that Taliban fighters are armed with sophisticated weapons and night-vision binoculars. He said Monday that more than 2,000 …
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Couple of days back, currency trading at Sara-i-Shehzada Kabul came to halt when the money changers made protest against inhuman act of kidnapping and strangulating to death a young girl-daughter of a fellow trader. The six-year old Mahsa is not the first ever victim of such a violence but kidnapping …
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Doha peace talks between the US and the Taliban have progressed but still one should agree with Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, that ‘nothing is agreed till everything is agreed’. Afghans’ recent conflicts goes back to the last 18 years but the sociology of the conflict goes further, at least since Soviet …
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AT News Report KABUL: The first train carrying Afghan goods would depart soon to China, officials in the northern Balkh province said, while Chinese goods came by the first train to Afghanistan in September 2016. Sher Ahmad Sepahizada, head of provincial chamber of commerce and industries said that the first …
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AT News Report KABUL: Government officials rejected a report that dozens of soldiers were taken hostage by Taliban fighters in the northwestern province of Badghis. The New York Times wrote that at least 150 soldiers were captured by Taliban militants in the BalaMorghab district after they were deported from Turkmenistan …
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Buoyed by its unprecedented rise in latest global Doing Business ranks, Afghanistan seeking to revive trade with Sri Lanka and strengthen economic ties between the two countries will open a direct air corridor for trade later this month. Furthermore, Kabul is also keen on an Investment Protection and Promotion (IPP) …
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KABUL: At least three civilian and three Taliban fighters including an insurgent commander were killed in National Directorate Operatives’ raid in the Khogiani district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Local officials said that the operation was conducted by intelligence operatives known as 02 Unit on Sunday night …
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AT News Report KABUL: UmerDaudzai, head of the High Peace Council’s secretariat, on his second day of visit to Tehran spoke at a roundtable held by the center for political and international studies of the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry on Sunday, addressing the center about the recent developments and progresses …
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AT News Report KABUL: Police on Sunday besieged the residence of a former Taliban official in Kabul. Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef who served as Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan during the Taliban government, said that his house was surrounded by police for several hours. Zaeef was in Qatar to attend the …
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