AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday said that it has recorded 544 new cases of coronavirus across the country over the past day and fatalities are at 62. Ministry said that out of 2,589 suspected samples tested in laboratories in the past 24 hours, 544 were reported …
Read More »Economic costs of Taliban’s foray; Afghanistan loses $33m in customs revenue
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has lost a staggering $33.5 million worth of revenue in the past month after the fall of seven customs ports in porous borders to the Taliban, officials revealed on Tuesday. Since a month, the government has lost control over Islam Qala, Torghundi, Abu Nasr Farahi, Spin …
Read More »Editorial: Pakistan’s deceptive gambit in Afghanistan
With the recent uptick in Taliban’s violence in areas under their control, Pakistan once again tried to fool the world by declaring that Taliban takeover of Afghanistan would be against the country’s national interest. This is utterly a false statement and the old counterfeit narrative of supporting a dignified Afghanistan. …
Read More »Afghanistan faces worsening food crisis amid conflict, droughts
AT News KABUL: Officials are warning that the country will slip into food crisis because of the conflict and droughts with millions of people in vulnerable areas at risks of food shortage. Afghans are in dire straits facing food insecurity due to the conflict and droughts, and this situation calls …
Read More »Karzai calls for more efforts for peace
AT News KABUL: Former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, met with members of the Afghanistan rescue movement on Monday. In this review, the former president called on the government and the Taliban to take away from this foreign war, and through talks, to promote respectable peace in the country and for …
Read More »PTM to Pakistan: Stop interfering in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) during a huge gathering in South Waziristan on Tuesday called on Pakistan to stop its interference in Afghanistan, voiding opposition to the killing of Afghan people in the ongoing war. PTM chief Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen blamed Pakistan for using Pashtuns soil against …
Read More »Dozens of insurgents killed in raids
AT News KABUL: At least 187 Taliban insurgents were killed and 112 injured in military raids by Afghan security forces across Afghanistan over past day, according to officials on Sunday. Afghan security forces killed 187 Taliban militants during clashes and counters attacks in Kunar, Logar, Ghazni, Khost, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Faryab, …
Read More »UN envoy asks Afghan negotiator to accelerate peace talks
AT News KABUL: The United Nations envoy to Afghanistan in a meeting with chief Afghan negotiator in talks with Taliban called for acceleration of the negotiations to reach a negotiated settlement and end the war. Deborah Lyons, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for Afghanistan met the Afghan government chief negotiator …
Read More »US restricts flights in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The United States has announced to have enforced fresh flight restrictions over Afghanistan for the fear of “terrorist attacks” on its airplanes. The Federal Aviation Administration, the US transportation agency, announced Tuesday that the new restrictions have been issued as security situation in Afghanistan are changing, so …
Read More »Wilson slams Taliban for balking at talks
AT News KABUL: As criticisms on Taliban are increasing in the United States for not joining the peace negotiations with the government of Afghanistan, the US caretaker ambassador to Kabul Ross Wilson, said Tuesday that negotiations could prevent destruction and bloodshed, adding that innocent civilians are killed in Afghanistan every …
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