AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In the aftermath of Kabul’s struggles to bring the Taliban to the table of negotiations with the help of Pakistan, and improvement in Kabul-Islamabad ties, the Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Amar Sinha, said the other day that peace negotiations should not result in abandoning the control of …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday said that based on the extradition treaty signed in 2006, Tajikistan would transfer the Afghan inmates to Kabul soon. Spokesman of the ministry, Ahmad Shekib Mostaghni, told media persons that Afghan delegation has finalized the process of identifying Afghan prisoners and …

AT-KABUL: The civil society, aggregate of nongovernmental organizations, has launched relief aid collection campaign to help the avalanches affected people in the country. The one-week campaign was launched on Tuesday in the capital city of Afghanistan where seven camps were set up. Through the camps the civil rights activists would …

AT-KABUL: At least nine armed militants were killed and eight others sustained injuries in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of interior (MoI) claimed that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal …

Drinking a few cups of coffee a day may help people avoid clogged arteries – a known risk factor for heart disease – Korean researchers believe. They studied more than 25,000 male and female employees who underwent routine health checks at their workplace. Employees who drank a moderate amount of …

The funeral is due to be held of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow. The service at Moscow’s Troyekurovskoye Cemetery will follow a public ceremony at the Andrei Sakharov rights centre. Mr Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was killed on Great Moskvoretsky …

President Barack Obama has said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached. In an interview with Reuters, Mr Obama also said the odds were still against such an agreement happening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

The eye-opening investigation of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) about industrial-scale rigging in the last year’s presidential and provincial councils’ polls has stunned many. The IECC has disclosed the other day that the unprecedented rigging was engineered by 10,000 temporary and 20 permanent employees of the Independent Election Commission …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 40 senior Afghan diplomats including 11 ambassadors were sacked due to over age and not meeting the norms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said reports on Monday. Pajhwok Afghan News quoted a source as saying that the decision was taken following the meeting …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called on concerned officials to take all necessary measures to resolve the issue of lack of clean potable water in Kabul city. In a meeting with members of City Reform and Development Commission, President Ghani urged the commission to devise a mechanism to provide clean drinking …