We, the Afghan media outlets have suffered a lot in 2017 year by losing 20 members of our family, making it worse for us, a jump from 13 deaths in 2016. Terrorist groups such as the Taliban and Daesh terrorists are responsible for all cases of the killings of journalists. …
Read More »Victory after victory: First shipment of India’s wheat reaches Kabul
AT News Report-KABUL: After a shining win against Pakistan in the opening match of the International Cricket Council (ICC) under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, there is another victory for the Afghan masses as the first consignment of more than 2,400 tons of wheat from India reached Kabul on Saturday. …
Read More »Hashimi appointed as IEC commissioner
AT News Report-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani after conducting meaningful consultation with stakeholders has resolved the long debated issue by appointing Sayed Hafizullah Hashimi as a new commissioner to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), an official said on Saturday. After firing the IEC head, Najibullah Ahmadzai, appointment of a new member …
Read More »Afghanistan dismantles Pakistan: ‘Celebration of shining victory by Under-19 Cricket Team underway across the country’
AT News Report-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and the National Security Adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar have extended their warm congratulations to the country’s Under-19 Cricket Team, Afghan Cricket Board and the entire nation over the team’s shining victory against Pakistan in the opening match of the …
Read More »Opinion: Courting disaster
By Afrasiab Khattak-Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while commenting on the current political impasse in the country in a recent speech mentioned the crises of 1971 in the then East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh) when disrespect for the aspirations of people expressed through vote had led to the disintegration of …
Read More »‘Political tension could endanger all achievements’
AT News Report-KABUL: Current political tension could deeply jeopardize all the achievements gained in the past 16 years and defiantly trigger the country toward crisis, the tribal elders warned, asking the central government to end the ongoing political tensions. In a gathering on Saturday, a large number of tribal elders …
Read More »Seven Taliban militants killed in Helmand
AT News Report-KABUL: The patriotic soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) strongly retaliated to the failed offensive of the Taliban insurgents in Greshk district of southern Helmand province, in which ended in killing of at least seven militants, an official said on Saturday. However, martyrdom of four soldiers of …
Read More »ED: Loya Jirga is a solution to crisis; not coup
As the people of Afghanistan from different ethnicities and with different political, social, economic and cultural viewpoints accept the Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) as the major factor that can help pull out the country from crisis and problems, they (Afghan masses) demand the grand assembly should be called whenever the …
Read More »Karzai praises US pressures on Pakistan, awaits for practical measures
AT News Report-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai praised the US authorities’ recent pressuring statements against Pakistan, but said he would be happier when Washington takes practical steps. Karzai who is in an official visit in Austria, told reporters in a Vienna-based diplomatic center that he repeatedly informed the US two …
Read More »Opinion: The unnamed heroes, the forgotten widows, orphans of Maruf, Arghasan districts
By Pashtana Durrani-Palwasha, the only daughter of Barani orphaned as a kid and married recently. Now she is a widow mother of two, who are now orphaned too. A tank entered the fortress that was recently turned into check post. The Qala (fortress) was attacked by the tank’s main gun, …
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