Regardless of their positions, everyone is going to be held accountable for carrying illegal arms and cars if found guilty during a week-long campaign. The aim of this campaign is to collect the illegal weapons as part of the Ministry of Interior’s efforts to curb violence in Kabul. Indeed, this …

One opposition faction is a group championed by former President Hamid Karzai that is calling for a loya jirga, a grand council of tribal elders, to decide Mr. Ghani’s fate. A jirga, at its heart an unpredictable event, could not only upend the cycle of elections as the democratic transfer …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States has to reverse the decision of recognizing the city of Jerusalem as capital city of Israel, said the members of extraordinary summit of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held in Turkey on Wednesday. Turkish President Receb Tayyip Erdogan called on …

A peace process by its nature is a complex and tortuous journey, but nothing is impossible when there is will. Regional consensus is very much important to any peace building efforts. But there are some neighbors who proved detrimental to the peace process. Such elements, especially, Pakistan—the hostile neighbor, destroying …

AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Wednesday said that 11 drug trafficker arrested in the past one week. The CJTF said in a press statement that 11 smugglers were apprehended by Counter Narcotics Police through different crackdown in various provinces and were handed over to CJTF …

AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga, or the lower house of the parliament, has rejected the next year’s draft budget, terming lack of balance among the provinces, allocations for unapproved administrative units, and creation of unnecessary positions in some department, as key reason behind the rejection. Some days back, a number of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan Second Vice President, Sarwar Danish on Tuesday met with his Indian counterpart, Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi, in which both sides discussed ways t boost bilateral ties. The two leaders held talks on cross-border militancy, Iran’s Chabahar Port and finding ways to enhance bilateral and …

AT-KABUL: Afghan forces detained three Turkish and one Afghan teacher of the Afghan-Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), who are allegedly blamed of having links with Turkish Government’s political opponent Fethullah Gulen. Afghan forces have detained the three Turks and one Afghan citizen including deputy head of the ATCE Tuesday morning …

AT-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga or upper house of the parliament on Tuesday expressed their anger over recent statements given by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, which according to senators it is a hostile remark to talk about shares of tribes in the government. Such comments would give birth to several …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A large members of Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament on Tuesday appreciated the police force for arresting suspects involved in heart-wrenching and homicidal incident of killing 10-members of a family in capital Kabul, urging the government to publically execute the culprits. On December 8, four …