AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been instructed by the first deputy Prime Minister, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to give a specific deadline to the Qatari company over the fate of the Kabul airport’s operational management. The call was made at a meeting of the economic commission …

AT News KABUL: The price of poppy has been significantly raised as the Islamic Emirate announced ban on cultivation of poppy and other drugs across the country. Earlier, the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader in a decree banned the cultivation of any kind of plants used for narcotics in the country. …

AT News KABUL: The blast in the capital city of Kabul wounded six people, officials said, adding that one of the wounded is in a critical condition. According to the security officials, the blast was due to a hand grenade occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the Pul-e-Khishti mosque in PD …

AT NewsKABUL: The ban on girls access to school above grade six is still facing widespread reaction from various countries and organizations. The UN Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called the ban on girls’ access to education “shocking” and said Afghanistan is the only country where girls are being denied …

AT News KABUL: The acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amir Khan Muttaqi, downplayed the threat of Daesh group in Afghanistan, saying that the group’s activities have been restrained and that it has not been able to conduct an attack in the recent months in the country. According to the Ministry …

AT News KABUL: New Zealand is providing two million dollars in humanitarian aid through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in a bid to promote the Afghan agriculture. According to a report of the FOA, at least 94,500 vulnerable rural people from farming communities will be …

AT News KABUL: The US special envoy for human rights and Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri, expressed frustration over the closing of schools for girls students beyond grade six and said that the issue of reopening girls’ schools was a key test for the current Afghan government. She also …

AT News KABUL: The former US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, suggested ‘broad support’ formula for the government system of Afghanistan. Khalilzad made the remarks at the Islamabad Security Dialogue, where he cited some positive and negative points of the Afghan chaos.    “On the positive side, the …

AT News KABUL: The cultivation of poppy was banned across the country based on a decree issued by the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada. The decree also bans the use and trafficking of all types of illicit drugs. The decree which was read by Islamic Emirate …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan’s political turmoil grew up on Sunday when Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan refrained from an attempt to oust him and sought fresh elections after dissolving parliament, a move the opposition called treasonously and vowed to fight. The deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan’s …