AT News Report-KABUL: Members of parliament warn that Ghazni province would fall to Taliban if the government keeps inattentive. On Monday session, lawmakers called the situation in Ghazni a matter of concern, asking for government’s immediate measures. “The situation of Ghazni province is a matter of serious concern. We call …
Read More »Neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan benefit from cross-line tensions: ARG
AT News Report-KABUL: Presidential office in reaction to the Afghan-Pakistani forces’ clash along the cross-line, said that neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan benefit from the “tensions”, calling on Islamabad to fulfill the Afghan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity to prevent the cross-line problems. Pakistan cross-line troops were reported to have …
Read More »Activists demand warring parties to end conflict
AT News Report-KABUL: In the wake of a peace movement in southern Helmand province, residents and civil society activists in Parwan province have erected a peace camp to support Helmand residents, reports said. They have urged all warring parties including the US-Afghan combat alliance and the belligerents to end the …
Read More »Man arrested in Nangarhar over child’s abduction, murder
AT News Report-KABUL: A man has been arrested in connection with the abduction and killing of a child in eastern Nangarhar province. Provincial officials said the Afghan intelligence operatives arrested the suspect in the vicinity of the 4th police district in Jalalabad city. The provincial government media office said in …
Read More »Joint military drills kill 19 insurgents
AT News Report-KABUL: At least19militants were killed and18others woundedinmultiple extensive military crackdownswithin past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defensesaid thatthe army in collaboration with the policeand National Directorate of Security personalconducted joint operations against insurgents in different areasNangarhar, Kapisa, Khost, Logar, Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, …
Read More »De-facto borderline skirmish: Death toll of Pakistani forces rises to 14
AT News Report-KABUL: In the deadly clashes in southern Khost province, at least 14 Pakistani military forces were killed and 17 others wounded after they attempted to assault borderline checkpoints in Zazai Maidan district, defense ministry said. Khost officials have also said that five dead bodies of Pakistani border soldiers …
Read More »5 Iranian inmates in Afghanistan sent home
AT News Report-KABUL: Five Iranian inmates in Afghanistan jails were sent back on Monday to Iran after a transfer agreement was entered into by both states. Most of them had been convicted of drug-induced crimes. The transfer of Iranian inmates was made at the Kabul airport, said an Iranian consulate …
Read More »Terrorism has no link to Islam
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The 29th Arab Summit — Al-Quds Summit — has strongly condemned attempts to link terrorism to Islam, a religion that sets great store by peace. Leaders and heads of Arab countries, who met in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, issued the call in a unanimous declaration on Sunday “We …
Read More »‘Tajikistan an important country in region’
AT News Report-KABUL: Foreign Minister, Salahuddin Rabbani on Monday met with the President Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, in which both sides discussed political, economic, security and cultural cooperation–bilateral relations and regional consensus, a statement from the foreign ministry said. Thanking the government of Tajikistan for the high level participation in RECCA, …
Read More »Army attends Gulf military maneuvers
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s army has attended the last day of the Joint Gulf Shield Military exercises in Saudi Arabia, the ministry of defense said on Monday. The exercise that was kicked off on March 18 in Saudi Arabia, has brought military personnel from 24 countries under one roof, and …
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