AT News KABUL: Officials in the western Ghor province said that drug dealers intentionally seek to deteriorate the security situation in the province in order to pave the ground for drug trafficking. Based on a survey conducted by the National Statistics and Information Authority there is 46 percent increase in …
Read More »Money Exchangers in Kabul End Strike
AT News KABUL: Money exchangers have ended their working strike in Kabul on Monday after meeting President Ashraf Ghani, promised to meet their problems. Presidential Palace Deputy Spokesman, Dawa Khan Minapal said that the money exchangers had met with the President Ghani on Sunday evening, and they were convinced to …
Read More »Four die in Badakhshan gold mine collapse
AT News KABUL: Four miners were killed and three others received injuries after a gold mine collapsed in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local officials said on Monday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Sanaullah Rohani said that the incident occurred on Sunday evening in Raghistan district of the province. The wounded people …
Read More »Terrorists Use Pakistani Drills in Kabul Attacks: Official
AT News KABUL: First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh claims that “special Pakistani drills” are used in terrorist attacks carried out in Kabul. “We have evidences that Taliban have received special drills from Pakistan and place them in Toyota vehicles to blast on the road sides,” Saleh claimed on Monday. He …
Read More »Kabul Residents Angry Over Chain of Targeted-Killings
“Mom, please wake up, mom please get up,” the two kids, one of them covered in blood, were heard screaming – their video broke the hearts of millions of people in Afghanistan. AT News KABUL: People in the capital city were so angry when they saw a video went viral …
Read More »Ansari’s Remarks Deem as ‘Enemy Propaganda’
AT News KABUL: The ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs says that Mawllavi Mujeeb Rahman Ansari’s recent remarks pave the ground for flaring up the war against “innocent people” in Afghanistan, and termed it as “enemy propaganda”. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that such statements were in …
Read More »Marshal Dostum Supports Interim Govt. if ‘System’ Preserves
AT News KABUL: Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader of Jonbesh-e-Milli (National Movement), a political party, says an interim government was acceptable to maintain the current governing system. Earlier, other political figures had spoken about the interim administration since the intra-Afghan negotiations began in September in Qatar. “If this system is …
Read More »Peace a National, Religious Necessity: Afghan Negotiator
AT News KABUL: Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, Head of the Negotiation Team of Afghanistan and some members of the negotiation team attended an online meeting of the Afghan Civil Society Forum-organization (ACSFo) and spoke about the Afghanistan peace process. At the beginning of the meeting, Asadullah Saadati, Deputy Chairman of the …
Read More »Editorial: Growing Challenge of Corruption
Corruption is endemic in Afghanistan – it has consistently singled out as a big headache, eroding people’s trust in the government. In international rankings measuring corruption, Afghanistan has remained stubbornly at the bottom of the pile over the past several years, bringing a very bad name to the country. Everyone, …
Read More »Dozens of IDPs Receive Aids in Kabul
AT News KABUL: German Aid for Afghan Children (GAAC) has distributed a big amount of edible-items for up to 450 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) living in the capital Kabul, the other day. The aids have been distributed among the displaced families from Kunduz, Helmand, Kandahar and Baghlan provinces and live …
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