A global money-laundering watchdog has decided to place Pakistan back on its terrorist financing watchlist, a government official and a diplomat said on Friday, in a likely blow to Pakistan’s economy and its strained relations with the United States. The move is part of a broader U.S. strategy to pressure …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Friday announced elimination of 70 insurgents from militant groups in different military operations conducted by the Afghan security forces during the past 24 hours across the country. According to the statement issued by the MoD, militants sustained casualties in Helmand, Nimroz, …

AT News Report-KABUL: An airstrike in northern Sar-i-Pul province, have killed six Taliban insurgents, while seven others of them received injuries, an official said on Friday. Two commanders were among those killed in the overnight airstrike on Qari Bahram’s base in Nimdan area, Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan …

HERAT CITY: The death toll from a horror head-on collision in western Herat province on Wednesday stands at eight including four women and two children; 13 others were wounded in the traffic accident, an official said. The accident occurred in the Sahra-i-Asar Khak locality of Adrasakan district early in the …

AT Monitoring Desk:-SAR-I-PUL CITY: Suspended telecommunication services at nights in parts of northern Sar-i-Pul province have sparked anger amongst local people. Some residents of the Payeen Kent area of the province say nighttime suspension of telecommunication services have become a nuisance for people. Abdul Raziq, a leader of Imam Jaffar …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan has rejected Russia’s claims over ‘unknown choppers’ landing in the militants-held areas as ‘baseless’, asking Moscow to share its evidences. Russia has frequently expressed concerns over the landing of what it calls unknown helicopters in the militants-held areas in Afghanistan, asking for US explanation. Ministry of defense said …

AT-KABUL: Instability and insecurity have triggered a substantial surge in poppy cultivation in tumultuous areas as senators claim that farmers cultivate opium thrice a year in certain areas. Members of the Senate called insecurity, unemployment, lack of rule of law and alternative livelihood as the incentives behind the increase in …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has called for intensified struggle and mobilized national movement and unity to achieve a sustainable peace. At a conference, the president said the rule of law as well as the role of jihadi and tribal elders was important to put an end to the ongoing wars. …

Afghans are sanguine about prospects for the trans-Afghanistan pipeline, in spite of the economic tantrum and paltry investments in mega projects. Implementing an ambitious natural gas pipeline touted as ‘Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India’ or TAPI project will have a two-sided corollary; generating jobs for Afghans, and strengthening amity amongst the three South Asian …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: More than 2,848 suspected drug traffickers have been arrested and large caches of narcotics busted across Afghanistan in the past 11 months, said the interior ministry on Wednesday. Counternarcotics police forces have staged 2,468 anti-drug crackdowns and arrested 2,848 drug dealers this year, said Counter Narcotics Deputy …