AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Nations General Assembly Security Council has evaluated security situation in Afghanistan and discussed the importance and need for Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the face of the ongoing national controversies. General Assembly in its seventy-second session; agenda item 39; the situation in Afghanistan, has provided …
Read More »Five cops martyred in tumultuous Zabul
AT News Report-KABUL: At least five policemen were martyred after the Taliban insurgents ambushed an outpost in tumultuous Zabul province, local officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the Taliban militants assailed a police outpost in Mullah Dina area of Qalat city and salvaged weapons, the TOLONews reported. According …
Read More »US drone strike destroys Taliban heroin lab
AT News Report-KABUL: A large heroin production facility belonging to the Taliban insurgents was destroyed and at least 8 terrorists were killed after the U.S. coalition forces staged a drone strike in Farah province, said a local police official on Saturday. According to the provincial police chief, the airstrikes were …
Read More »Opinion: Asma’s struggle
By Afrasiab Khattak-Sad news of the sudden death of Asma Jehangir on February 11 not only shocked to core her family, friends and followers in Pakistan but it also hit hard many people around the world as she was one of the internationally best known Pakistanis with a positive image. …
Read More »To orchestrate repatriation of all refugees from Pakistan in two years: Ghani
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan will facilitate the repatriation of all Afghan refugees living in Pakistan within the next two years. At a ceremony marking 29th anniversary of withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani unveiled a plan to repatriate all Afghan refugees from Pakistan in the coming …
Read More »Opinion: The CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan. U.S. recruitment of “Islamic Terrorists” started in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski
By Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Le Nouvel Observateur-This text was among the first articles published by Global Research in October 15, 2001, in the week following the US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. According to this 1998 interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan preceded …
Read More »Washington supports Kabul process, Tashkent conference: US diplomat
AT News Report-KABUL: Washington supports the Kabul process, and Tashkent conference, the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Alice G. Wells assured Afghan National Security Adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar in a meeting in Kabul. The two sides also talked about the bilateral relationships and the Afghan …
Read More »ED: Three decades after Soviet drawdown
The former Soviet Union pulled its troops out of Afghanistan on February 15, 1989 after a nearly 11 years of a costly war. The war affected all sectors in Afghanistan and damaged or destroyed the infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed, injured and millions more fled towns and …
Read More »Nicholson backs TAPI project
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: US international forces commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson during his trip to western Farah province has said implementation of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project and construction of Bakhshabad Dam would help bring positive changes to the province. Nicholson traveled to Farah late on Thursday for assessing security situation …
Read More »Land reform on cards: ‘Usurped public lands regain’
AT News Report-KABUL: Scores of state and private lands have been usurped by powerful individuals and government officials, but those lands will be reclaimed from land mafia. President Ashraf Ghani assured of retaking usurped lands from land-grabbers, and will legally distribute lands to all citizens. “Public treasury belongs to the …
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