AT-KABUL: Fourteen civilians taken hostage by the Daesh terrorist group, have been freed in eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said Saturday. They are ordinary people and had been abducted by Daesh group some two months ago in the Haska Mina district. “Twelve teachers and two clerks of ministry of education …

President Ashraf Ghani endorsed the draft amendment in the article 6 of the population registration act that allows the words ‘Afghan’ and the ‘ethnicity’ in the new identification cards supposed to be distributed. The article had turned to a controversy over the distribution of the computerized identification cards which caused …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have sustained huge casualties during operation carried out by police, army, commando, intelligence and the air force in the two districts of the eastern Laghman province, an official said on Friday. “At least 25 Taliban insurgents including their two commanders identified as Khaled, and Mohabbat were …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hundreds of the tribal elders and public masses of the eastern Kunar province have expressed their anger against Pakistan’s rockets shelling into the province, demanding for its full stop. The tribal elders in a gathering called on Pakistani government to immediately put a halt to their shelling …

By Sujeet Sarkar: The longest and the pricey war in Afghanistan was almost nonexistent in the election narrative of the recently concluded cacophonous presidential campaign in the United States. A war that drained the US exchequer by 600 billion and witnessed the death of 2247 US military personnel, along with …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have recaptured Tala Wa Barfak district of Baghlan province following a coordinate operation against Taliban militants, local officials said on Friday. Provincial governor’s spokesman, Mahmood Haqmal confirming the news, said that security forces retaken the control of the strategic district on early Friday morning. He …

Vaccination is one of the efficient and cost-effective interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity among children under-five year age. The two drops of polio is very much important to put off from the fatality and disability caused by vaccine preventable diseases. Covering all children under-5 is one of the key …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 16 people mostly civilians were martyred and about 60 others wounded Wednesday in two suicide bombings targeted security offices in Kabul city, security and health officials said. An attacker rammed his explosives laden vehicle at the entrance of the police district 6 headquarters in the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan ambassador to Pakistan Umer Zakhilwal emphasized on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to withdraw the political move of closure of crossing points and transit routes to enhance objectives of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) between the two neighboring countries. Zakhilwal, representing his country at the ECO Summit in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five road engineers of the Blobal road construction company kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in Muhammad Agha district of eastern Logar province have been freed, an official said on Wednesday. Taliban had taken the engineers with the Blobal Road Construction Company in Dawlatabad area on February 24. District …