AT News KABUL: A Taliban’s hostile ban has deprived 40,000 children of polio vaccination in militancy-hit Badakhshan province, officials said. Badakhshan saw one positive polio case recently this month. A campaign to vaccine 265,000 children against polio in Badakhshan has hit snags as Taliban insurgents are preventing from its implementation, …

AT News KABUL: Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar met with Ambassador Ross Wilson, Charge d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Kabul, where they discussed Kabul and Washington relations. The two sides had an in-depth discussion on the strategic relations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has ordered Herat provincial governor to take immediate measures for the reparing of the Gauhar Shad Begom historical minaret. The presidential office said in a statement on Sunday that Ghani called governor Wahid Qatali and ordered for the reconstruction of the minaret with the …

AT News KABUL: At least 30 Taliban rebels were killed and 17 others wounded during a latest crackdown carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said Saturday. Eight Taliban fighters were killed and 14 others were wounded in counterattacks of …

AT News KABUL: At least three police officers were killed after a bomb placed on a motorbike went off near a police checkpoint in the city of Herat province on Sunday morning, provincial officials said. Two others, including a civilian, received injuries in the blast that no group, including the …

AT News KABUL: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees provided humanitarian aids to the Internal Displaced People who left homes because of server conflicts erupted between the security forces and Taliban in southern Helmand province. The UNHCR said that thousands of people were being helped by far. The aids consisted …

AT News KABUL: Hajji Din Mohammad, deputy head of the government-run high council for national reconciliation survived an attack carried out by Taliban, sources in the council said. The incident took place Sunday afternoon along the Kabul-Jalalabad highway as Mohammad’s convoy was heading to his birthplace in the eastern province …

AT News KABUL: Intense clashes have been continuing between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban rebels since last week in Arghandab, Zari and Maiwand districts of southern Kandahar province, officials said Sunday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Jamal Nasir Barekzai said the Afghan National Army and Afghan Air Force jointly launched …

AT News KABUL: Amid a stratospheric surge in people looking for Pakistani visas, Afghan government has asked Pakistani Embassy in Kabul to help manage the crowds of applicants. First vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Sunday that the foreign ministry had asked Pakistani embassy to clarify the number of visas …

In an effort to understand what is exactly happening to the Doha talks and why has the violence surged despite the call for de-escalation at a time when the civilian casualties hit the highest point, responsibility utterly lays to the government to enlighten citizens on the process. The government and …