AT News Report-KABUL: Three civilians were martyred in bomb blast took place Saturday in Kabul city, police said. “Three civilians including two women and a child were killed after a magnetic bomb attached to a vehicle went off in the Police District 9,” said Salem Almas, head of investigation department …

Over 2000 projects heaped up in National Procurement Committee By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament expressed deepest concerns over heaping up of projects in procurement committee and asked government to take measure for solution. “Based on reports, 2,291 projects have been heaped up by …

Hundreds of millions of dollars from the oil import are not paid to the government treasury, according to media reports. About four million tons of oil is annually imported to Afghanistan, from which, the government receives tax of the only 1,300,000 tons, while nearly 2,700,000 tons enter the country without …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: According to the spokesperson in Kunduz, security forces have been succeeded in clearance of Kunduz-Takhar highway on Friday, Tolonews reported. The Kunduz-Takhar highway has been cleared of Taliban insurgents, following heavy clashes between the Afghan security forces and militants during the past eight days. Mahfoozullah Akbari, spokesperson …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A large number of Jihadi leaders in a gathering titled “assessment of current situation of the country” on Thursday criticized the National Unity Government’s over its failure in the past two years. They termed mismanagement, political interference in security organs, dividing of organs based on party and …

After more than one decade of war in the country, the government and its allies from the US and elsewhere have had little success staunching the flow of poppy. According to recent data from the UN office on Drugs and Crime, opium-poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose 10 percent in 2016, …

AT-KABUL: The former president, Hamid Karzai, on Thursday said that only unity can lead Afghanistan toward peace, stability and prosperity. “Brotherhood and togetherness is the wish of every Afghan,” the former president said, adding that only unity can lead Afghanistan toward “peace, happiness, prosperity and freedom.” Speaking in a gathering …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan ambassador and President’s special envoy to Islamabad Dr. Omer Zakhilwal has challenged the impression that Afghan security forces provoked the recent deadly clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces at the Spin Boldak border area. Zakhilwal hold talks with advisor to Pakistan prime minister on foreign affairs, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Some members of the Wolesi Jirga voiced Wednesday against President Ashraf Ghani’s recent remarks on corruption in the country. President Ghani had told the European Union’s anti-corruption conference in Kabul that many advantageous measures had been taken over the years to overcome the ongoing graft in the …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai stressed on the education especially for the youth, saying it is “necessary and important” for the country. In a meeting with the elders and youth from the provinces of Kunduz and Takhar in Kabul, Karzai asked the elders not to spare any efforts in the …