AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local officials have warned of escalating insecurity in Kunduz. They said that after the fall of Kunduz city in late September, the Taliban seized different types of weapons from security forces, which they are using now against the government forces and civilians. This comes amid ongoing clashes …

Rescuers in the city of Shenzhen pulled four people from the debris but at least 27 people remain missing. A landslide at an industrial park in southern China buried more than 20 buildings and left 27 people missing on Sunday, state media reported, as more than 1,500 emergency workers searched …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan can benefit from the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BKT) railway project and speed up the rebuilding process, Azerbaijani political analyst said on Sunday. Fikret Sadikhov told Trend News Agency that Afghanistan and Azerbaijan have close trade and commerce ties and the two countries planned to implement different projects in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Indian media reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi might soon visit Kabul to inaugurate the parliament building—India’s symbolic gift of democracy to Afghanistan. According to reports, Prime Minister’s Office has put pressure on all stakeholders to finish the project and said that Modi was keen that …

AT-KABUL: Mediothek Afghanistan on Sunday launched two-day conference titled “The role of media in peace and social security” to seek media’s support in bringing lasting peace to Afghanistan. The Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Sayeda Muzhgan Mostafawi, said that media should lend its support to the government’s peace efforts. …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report on the State of World Population in 2015 and said that totally 7.4 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance and 3.4 million of them requiring critical lifesaving interventions. The report entitled “Shelter from the Storm” focused …

After the US-led coalition forces ended their combat operations last year in December, reports about emergence of Daesh or the Islamic State had surfaced. Unfortunately, the reports were not taken seriously and the authorities have turned a blind eye to emergence and spread of Daesh. Growing power of the IS …

A deputy governor in Afghanistan has made a public plea to the president on Facebook for help in fighting the Taliban. Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar wrote the message to Ashraf Ghani on the social network to say 90 soldiers had been killed in the past two days in Helmand. He warned …

AT-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of the parliament) came hard on establishment of the selection committee—a proposed body to nominate members of the two electoral bodies. It said that activities of the committee were against the law. Abdul Rauf Ebrahimi, Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, said on Saturday that establishment …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) militants have left Borka district of northern Baghlan province, said an official source. Hajji Muhammad, a representative of the district in Baghlan Provincial Council (PC), told Azadi Radio: “Daesh previously had presence in the province, but after that conflict between the group and …