AT News KABUL: Afghanistan celebrates the March 17th as the National Journalists’ Day amid intensive security threats from the media family as the country has recently experienced a high level of violence, including targeted-killings of high profile figures such as journalists, civil society activists, judges, scholars, doctors, and employees. Journalists …
Read More »Kabul Ranks Fourth Polluted City in 2020
AT News KABUL: An air quality technology company considered Kabul as one of the most polluted city of the world in 2020. IQAir, the Swiss-based that specializes in protection against airborne pollutions, said Wednesday in a report that Kabul was the fourth polluted among 92 capital cities in 2020. It …
Read More »Editorial: Not Only Drought
This year Afghan farmers may likely face enormous challenges due to lack of snowfall. They will surely plant different kinds of seeds but the fate of their crop hangs in the balance as there is no adequate snowfall. Unfortunately drought is on the horizon, it could be the worst in …
Read More »Afghan Delegation leave for Moscow to Participate in Peace Meeting
AT News KABUL: A delegation consisting of government officials and political figures left Wednesday for Russia to participate in a peace meeting scheduled to be held in Moscow. A delegation from Taliban militants are also going to participate in the meeting planned to be held on Thursday. Abdullah Abdullah, head …
Read More »Ghani’s Aide Speaks About ‘Impartial Administration’ As an Option
AT News KABUL: President Ghani’s adviser and representative for Pakistan Umer Daudzai says a “completely impartial government” would be one of the options, adding that Taliban do not want an interim and participatory administration. “Afghanistan has its owner and nobody can impose a decision on this country,” Daudzai said Wednesday …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 28 COVID-19 Cases, Two Deaths in One Day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 28 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak has reached to 56,044 around the country. The new cases come positive out of …
Read More »Biden Calls Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline of May 1 ‘Tough’
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The U.S. President Joe Biden says that it will be “tough” for the U.S. to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but that the complete drawdown won’t take much longer. The deadline to end America’s longest war six weeks from now was …
Read More »China Willing to Share its Experience in Poverty Reduction with Afghanistan
By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The 25th February 2021 was a special day for the Chinese people. At a grand gathering to mark the nation’s poverty alleviation accomplishments and honour model poverty fighters, Chinese President Xi Jinping solemnly declared a complete victory in the fight against poverty as …
Read More »U.S. Forces Conduct Airstrikes on Taliban in Kandahar
AT News KABUL: The U.S. Forces in Afghanistan have conducted airstrikes on the Taliban hideouts in the southern Kandahar province. The U.S. Forces Spokesman, Sonny Leggett said in a tweet on Wednesday that the strikes were carried out in Spinboldak and Zhari districts of Kandahar within the past 48 hours. …
Read More »The Afghanistan Study Group Recommendations for Peace
Summary by Matin Royeen Ph.D Introduction: In the past forty years, the Afghan people have paid a very heavy price due to protracted violent conflict. The bloody Communist coup of 1978 followed by ten years of former Soviet invasion in December of 1979 and the brutal civil war caused …
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