KABUL: Taliban militants publically executed a man accused of killing his wife in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand district, an official said on Wednesday. The district chief, Fathullah Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News a Taliban jury found the man guilty of intentionally killing his wife and issued a …

KABUL: Twenty militants have been killed and 19 others wounded during an ongoing military operation in southern Zabul province, an official said on Wednesday. Another 17 suspects were detained during the offensive codenamed “Nijat” (salvation), said Brig. Gen. Syed Waqif Shah, the 205th Atal Military Corps commander in the south. …

AT-KABUL: The European Union Special Envoy has termed corruption as Afghanistan’s gravest challenge, and said the level of bribery, obstruction and nepotism keeps increasing and deprives ordinary citizens of access to public goods and services. The European Union Delegation for Afghanistan said in a press release on Tuesday that Afghans …

Unemployment is truing into a serious threat. As a sharp decline in international aid has been seen there has been a sharp rise in joblessness. Three key factors are behind this dilemma. The first one is decline in international aid. The second one is flawed government policies. And third one …

NEW DELHI: President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said peace was Afghanistan’s significant goal since the shadow of terrorism haunted Afghan children and women. “Terror must be confronted and must be overcome,” he said while speaking alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the media after a meeting with him here. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Chairman of Awami National Party, Asfandyar Wali Khan, said that the party will resist against changes to the original map of Gawadar-Kashgar economic corridor. Talking after a party meeting, the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader said that his party will spare no efforts to prevent the Pakistani …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai said that foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed to bring peace to the war-hit country. In an interview with Trend News Agency in Azerbaijan, Hamid Karzai said that through NATO during its mission in Afghanistan wanted to help Afghan, failed to bring stability …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of MPs and analysts have said that membership of Afghanistan in Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is vital for fixing the country’s economy on condition that the government succeeds to receive full membership of the organization. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Monday said that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Mohammad Ismail Khan, the former minister of energy and water and a prominent Jihadi leader has warned that insecurity will increase unprecedentedly in western Herat province within upcoming 20 days due to inattention government leaders on security situation countrywide. Ismail Khan expressed the remarks at a session …

The Indo-Afghan partnership has blossomed despite barriers caused by geography and political hurdles, says Narendra Modi AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hinting at the importance of Afghanistan and India relations, President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said that the two countries are bound by a thousand ties and millions of memories. President Ghani …