Afghanistan Seeks Continued Regional Support to Durable Peace AT News KABUL: The government has formed a delegation consisting of 16 people to participate in the Moscow meeting planned to be held on the peace process in Afghanistan. The meeting is slated for Thursday (March 18). The Afghan government’s delegation is …
Read More »Bamyan Journalists Express Concern over Limitation of Access to Information
AT News KABUL: Journalists in the relatively secure province of Bamiyan in the center of Afghanistan express concerns over what they say “restrictions in access to information”. In a resolution issued Tuesday, they called on the local government not to spare sharing information with the media based on the information …
Read More »SIGAR Warns of ‘Dangerous Consequences’ if Int’l Aides Cut to Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is warning of bad consequences if the U.S. and the international donors cut aid to Afghanistan. “Eighty percent of Afghanistan’s budget is funded by the U.S. and the (other international) donors,” said John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector to …
Read More »‘U.S. Russia Agree on Transitional Administration in Afghanistan’
AT News KABUL: The leader of the Hezb-e-Kngra-e-Mili says that the United States and Russia agreed on formation of transitional government in Afghanistan. Talking to a press conference on Tuesday, Abdul Latif Pedram announced his support to the transitional government that is offered by the U.S. to find a political …
Read More »Editorial: Heart-Wrenching Incident
While the Afghan peace process has been sluggish, increased violence and unclaimed IEDs attacks and targeted-killings have agonized the ordinary Afghan people every day. As many as 5,041 civilian casualties have been recorded since February 22 last year until the end of February this year. This is heart-wrenching – this …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 21 New Cases of COVID-19
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 21 new cases of Coronavirus around the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 56,016 cases across the country. The new cases come positive out …
Read More »14 Civilians Killed as Violence Surges Amid U.S. Push to End War
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 14 innocent civilians have been killed while many more were wounded in the past three days of violence in Kabul, the capital city and in northern Baghlan and western Heart provinces. The Afghan masses have tasted a relentless spite in violence amid renewed U.S. …
Read More »The Role of Kamal Khan Dam in Economic Development of Afghanistan
By Saifullah Ahmadzai On 16/Mar/2021, Mahmood Tarzi Think Tank of the Regional Studies Center, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan held a scientific gathering titled “The Role of Kamal Khan Dam in Economic Development of Afghanistan”. Mr. Shoaib Rahim (lecturer and writer), Mr. Mohammad Dawood Mohammadi (acting director of Mohammad Tarzi …
Read More »The Significance of Developing the Aynak Copper Mine for Afghanistan
By Andalib Asem Afghanistan is endowed with immense mineral and hydrocarbon resources, including gold, lithium, copper, lead, precious and semi-precious stones, natural gas, petroleum, and many others. In 2010, US geologists conducted an aerial survey that discovered untapped mineral deposits worth more than $1 trillion. While Afghanistan faces a plethora …
Read More »Op-ed for International Day of Forests; Restoring our forests provides a path to recovery and well-being
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Today we mark the International Day of Forests, and never before has there been greater reason to focus our attention on these precious natural resources that cover a third of the Earth’s land area. We …
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