AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  General Syed Abdul Karim said that a well-equipped special unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) had been deployed to Kunduz province for nighttime raids in the northern zone. “Kunduz, Baghlan, Takhar and Badakhshan are those provinces where the newly deployed troops would conduct night raids,” Karim …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-According to Islam those are blessed and pious who support orphans. Such people are called friends of Allah. The religion of peace encourages people to build a society where orphans would not indulge in crimes for earning bread. Being depriving of parents’ hug is intolerable loss for …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) on Sunday renewed the agreement with Uzbekistan for operation, maintenance and management of the 75km railway line from Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif for three more years with additional privileges. Acting Minister of Public Works, Noorgul Mangal, said the new agreement would cost $19 million per …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) kicked off the first round of anti-polio campaign. The drive will continue for three days in 28 provinces of the country. Minister of Public Health, Ferozuddin Feroz, inaugurated the vaccination drive on Sunday by administering oral polio vaccine to children at …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Lawyers Association warns of yet another electoral crisis in case the government fails in bringing reforms in the electoral bodies. Abdul Ghafoor Ghayur, the association’s head, briefing newsmen here on Sunday, said that the government of national unity had not taken substantial measures to reform the poll …

Twin blasts targeted the Roman Catholic Church and Christ Church during Sunday mass in Youhanabad area of the provincial capital, killing 14 people including two policemen and injuring at least 70 others. According to initial reports, two suicide bombers attacked the churches located in the Christian locality. Eye witnesses told …

Confidence is building and the tone of the conflict in the country has been changing. Many people, in Afghanistan, the region and the West, have started discerning that at last after a long political stalemate, prospect for a negotiated settlement to the war, is taking some kind of substantial form. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States is expected to fix troops’ withdrawal plans in a snail-paced process and let most of the 9,800 soldiers stay in the country post 2016, a media report said on Saturday. The Associated Press quoted an unnamed US officials as saying that plans to cut …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives foiled a suicide bombing plot in Kabul city. The NDS said in a statement on Saturday that a would-be suicide bomber was arrested along with another terror suspect in connection to the attack plot by the Afghan intelligence operatives. The source said the suspects …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A conference in Kazakhstan discussed Afghanistan’s economic ties with Central Asian countries, as well as economic cooperation for implementation of regional and bilateral trade and economic projects, media reports said Saturday. According to Pakistan’s Customs Today, the workshop was organized by the United Nation’s Economic and Social …