AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Gen. Abdul Raziq, police chief, of the southern Kandahar province, said that the ongoing fighting in Helmand province has been engineered and directed from Pakistan as Helmandis are worst hit by violence. Talking to newsmen, Raziq said the militants are enjoying full support of Pakistan. He added …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Germany’s newly appointed special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, called on Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani here the other day and discussed regional and national issues. In the meeting, Salahuddin Rabbani felicitated the new Germany’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and thanked her country for providing assistance to …

AT-KABUL: Etisalat has signed an agreement with national cricket team’s players Hamid Hassan and Muhammad Nabi as brand ambassadors. The two superstars will appear in Etisalat’s commercial and public campaigns as well as become ambassadors for social causes. Wednesday’s signing reiterates Etisalat’s efforts in forging strong relations with the sporting …

AT-KABUL: Afghan army in a joint operation with police and National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested a Pakistani doctor who was treating the Taliban insurgents in Nangarhar province. Nangarhar police in a media statement issued here said the Pakistani citizen, identified as Tariq Jamal, was providing medical care to the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Tribal elders in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday claimed that 130 residents were still in captivity of the Islamic State (IS). The Islamic State, also known as Daesh, has recently released a video footage showing 10 Afghan civilians killed brutally. The footage has shook-up the nation. According …

In national and international media, we see and read that the US war on drugs in Afghanistan is an $8 billion failure. This is strange to hear that this is only the US war on drugs and perhaps this is the reason the war is not making any progress. Until …

AT-KABUL: Operatives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) arrested the Taliban’s shadow chief for Qarghaee district of eastern Laghman province. A press statement issued by the NDS said that their operatives arrested Maulvi Esmail Alias Abddullah, the Taliban’s shadow district chief for Qarghaee, along with one of his comrades, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) will launch a probe into a video shared in social media the other day showing the Islamic State (ARE) fighters burying bombs in a hillside in eastern Afghanistan, forcing the prisoners (locals) to sit on their knees and as they knelt down …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 250 Taliban and IS insurgents, known as Daesh, have been killed in 17 US drone attacks in eastern Nangarhar province in the past month, local officials said on Tuesday. These operations were conducted in Hashkamina, Achin, Nazyan, Khoghyani and Sherzad districts of the province, and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Expressing concerns over growing tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan following the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Kabul, the United States of America called on the two neighboring countries to work together to achieve the shared goals of eliminating terrorism. The US State Department spokesman, John Kirby …