By Rangin Dadfar Spanta- “To reach the possible things, we should fight impossible ones,” Hermann Hesse The Afghan war is going to enter its 40th year on April 27th this year, 40 years of war, killing and destruction of structures and social relationships. Afghan war is one of the longest …
Read More »Taliban’s shadow district chief held
AT News Report-KABUL: The intelligence operatives have arrested the Taliban’s shadow district chief for Washir district of southern Helmand province, the agency said on Wednesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) in statement identified the detainee as Mohammad Nabi, son of Sayed Mohammad. According to NDS, the detained Taliban militant …
Read More »Opinion: Pashtoon Tahafuz Movement-An opportunity to terminate ISI grip on their proxies in Afghanistan
By Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada-Since the uprising of Pashtoons for their rights and their unprecedented rallying around a young leader, ManzoorPashteenlate last year under the slogan of ‘protection of Pashtoons’, which has evolved into a movement called ‘PashtoonTahafuz Movement (PTM)’, the entire tribal belt inside Pakistan, stretching through border areas between …
Read More »Ramp up pressure on insurgents: Pakistan told
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Taking note over disregard of Pakistani officials to pressurize militants enjoying safe havens on their soil, the Trump Administration has once again stressed the need for Pakistan to heap up pressure on insurgents. A senior State Department official said in an interview on Tuesday the US had …
Read More »Japan offers $11.6m for utility projects
AT News Report-KABUL: Japan has announced new assistance to improve access in Kabul, Afghanistan. The project worth approximately USD 11.6 million, will construct Maslakh Road, the Abdul Haq Roundabout, as well as a new Makroyan Bridge in line with the Kabul City Master Plan. The agreement was signed at the …
Read More »Hundreds women trained to join govt. workforce
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 400 Afghan women graduated today from an internship program aimed at providing Afghanistan with a pool of educated women ready to join the government workforce. The women were participants in USAID’s Promote: Women in Government (WIG) project. WIG supports the Government of Afghanistan’s goal of …
Read More »Voter registration riddled by low turnout
AT News Report-KABUL: It has been five days now that voter registration process has officially kicked off, but the process received scanty welcome by the Afghan masses. As since Wednesday, 76,000 including 18,450 obtained voter card which is very few. On Tuesday, the Chief Executive Abdulalh Abdullah strongly criticized the …
Read More »Security officials dismiss allegations over using schools as trenches
AT News Report-KABUL: Security officials rejected the allegations that army and police were using schools as trenches. Ministry of Education had earlier alleged that 67 schools in the insecure areas were used as trenches, accusing military and police of using some of them. Ministry of Interior said in response that …
Read More »Govt rejects reports over intelligence cooperation with Pakistan
AT News Report-KABUL: The government denied reports over an agreement between Kabul and Islamabad based on which, the two sides would exchange intelligence information. Some parliamentarians claimed Monday that the government in meeting with Pakistnai officials had agreed to share information on intelligence issues with Pakistan as well as to …
Read More »Kabul, Islamabad in touch to prevent cross-line conflicts: Abdullah
AT News Report-KABUL: Diplomatic efforts are going on between Kabul and Islamabad in order to prevent the continuation of conflicts along the cross-line line, chief executive Abdullah Abdullah said Tuesday. He added that the conflict in the Jaji Maidan district of Khost province, Pakistani troops were guilty, because they attacked …
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