AT News Report-KABUL: Unprovoked and sporadic rocket shelling of Pakistani military forces into eastern Kunar province has sparked outburst in Afghanistan. Pakistan in the past days has reportedly launched 250 rockets on Kunar’s Dangam and Sarkano districts, according to the provincial governor Wahidullah Kalimzai. The rockets have pounded several dwellings, …
Read More »Air force training 300 pilots
AT News Report-KABUL: Some 300 pilots are being trained in different countries, said the Afghan air force, envisaging an enhancement in the military aviation operations upon their return. An Afghan air official confided at a meeting in the US that the Afghan air force is training 300 pilots. In the …
Read More »Probers of Kunduz airstrike shielding gov’t: Lawmakers
AT News Report-KABUL: Some lawmakers accuse the government’s fact finding delegation for the Kunduz incident of making deal with the security bodies, calling it a big “oppression” against the victims of the recent air strike victims. Allah Gul Mujahed, a member of the parliament, said Wednesday that representatives from Kunduz …
Read More »Will continue fighting belligerents
AT News Report-KABUL: The government says it would encourage the armed opposition groups, but would “seriously fight” against those groups that are not willing in peace. The comment comes in response to the Taliban officials that said they have enough experience of thee war in Afghanistan and were able to …
Read More »ED: Don’t torch our schools
Is destroying schools will bar girls from going to school? This would be kidding to say yes or to be remained in puzzled—girls will go to schools and there is no power to dither them from pursing education. Both, Taliban and Daesh extremist groups did level best by torching girl …
Read More »Family dispute: Six of a single family killed in Nangarhar
AT News Report-KABUL: In the wake of family dispute, six members of a single family have been killed in the eastern Nangarhar province, authorities said on Wednesday. They were killed in Saracha Naghlo area of Behsud district of the province as a result of personal enmity. It was Tuesday night …
Read More »World Bank donates $691m to Afghanistan
AT News Report-KABUL: The World Bank has pledged a sum of 691 million dollars to the Afghan government, a grant which will be used for development of three crucial sectors of public health, telecommunications and banking, said the finance minister. “This is good news for these sectors,” EklilHakimi said Tuesday, …
Read More »Pakistan’s arrest of top Taliban, a hoax: Sources
AT News Report-KABUL: Sources in the government have denied claims about a purported detention of Taliban leaders in Pakistan, saying that no Taliban chieftain has thus far been arrested there. Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, ambassador to Islamabad in Taliban’s government, had earlier claimed that some Taliban leaders have been arrested …
Read More »Peace Council decries Pakistani preachers of suicide attacks
AT News Report-KABUL: The High Peace Council said Tuesday that it was important to have those Pakistani clerics who permit suicide attacks in Afghanistan in a conference of Islamic scholars expected to be held in one of the Islamic countries. “Unfortunately, some Pakistani clerics allow war in Afghanistan and call …
Read More »ED: National solidarity, key to resolving political instability
National cohesion and political solidarity is the foremost and ultimate solution to the instabilities in the political sphere and current predicaments gripping the country’s elections. Owing to complexity and complications of the situation, a full-tilt political stability – achieving peace and holding free and fair elections and other indigenous problems …
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