AT News Report-KABUL: Following allegations of the Parliament’s first deputy speaker about faults in the national budget, the finance ministry has assured that this year’s budget was prepared in line with international standards and without any contradiction. Hamayoun Hamayoun, first deputy speaker of the Lower House, had told earlier that …
Read More »Missile cache discovered in Nangarhar
AT News Report-KABUL: A cache of missiles was sighted during an army operation in Khogiani district of eastern Nangarhar province. A press statement issued by Nangarhar provincial press office said that 21 missiles were discovered and confiscated during an operation conducted by Afghan army forces in Khogiani district of Nangarhar. …
Read More »Khost on path of devolvement: Ghani inaugurates milestone projects
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Ghani on Monday inaugurated several public-utility and development projects in southern Khost province. Ghani laid the foundation stones for an energy network project, a radar system for the Khost airport, a firefighting complex building and airport runway during his visit from the province, said a statement …
Read More »Only Russia can help, not US who’s been killing us: Karzai
Afghanistan has been dealing with dire security instability for years, with the situation becoming sharply worse in recent months, as the Taliban has been carrying out offensives on major cities. Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that Russia was the only force that could help Afghanistan fight terrorism. “I …
Read More »ED: Political will needed to counter-terrorism
The greatest concern of Afghan government is that Pakistan has long been allowed Taliban insurgents, and Haqqani Network leadership to find safe haven on its soil—and also Islamabad is not doing enough in war on terror. However, after immense of pressure from Afghanistan and international community—and direct from Washington, Islamabad …
Read More »Boosting Afghan-Uzbek commercial ties discussed
AT News Report-KABUL: Afghan transport minister who partook in a major trade meeting in Uzbekistan has discussed extending trade cooperation with leading Uzbek corporations. Minister Mohammad Hamid Tahmasi and the companies’ representatives discussed trade, economic, transport and communication cooperation. A statement from the transport ministry said all sides agreed to …
Read More »Joint military drills kill 45 insurgents
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 45 militants have been killed and 37 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security force across the county in the past 24 hours, security official said on Monday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), …
Read More »Govt. evades supporting domestic products
AT News Report-KABUL: The government is evades in supporting domestic products as well as industrialists in the country, trade official said on Monday, accusing government of relying on imports from neighboring countries only. “The National Unity Government is playing double game with investors because yet to come up to the …
Read More »‘Work on Afghan section of TAPI yet to begin’
AT-KABUL: The Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (TAPI) project is far beyond to be called only a gas pipeline scheme–it’s a package of projects including electricity, optical fiber and railway—but despite leaders and senior officials from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and India inaugurated the start of work on the Afghan part of …
Read More »‘US is not walking away from Pakistan’
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Department of State’s Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Ambassador Alice Wells has said that United States is not “walking away from Pakistan”, but while Pakistan has taken “initial constructive steps” against terrorists operating on its soil, they aren’t …
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