AT News KABUL: The US top officials in Afghanistan have called on the Taliban to stop its offensive in Helmand and reduce its violence around the country. US Chargé d’Affaires, Ross Wilson in a series of tweets on Tuesday echoed Gen. Miller’s call for the Taliban to stop its offensive …
Read More »Tens of religious schools operate illegally in Kabul
AT News KABUL: At least 55 illegal madrassas (religious seminaries) are active in northern parts of Kabul, the capital city, and these seminaries are being guarded by tens of armed men. The seminaries are located in Mirbachakot, Qarabagh, Kalakan, Farza and Guldara districts, PAYK Investigative Journalism Center reported. The PAYK …
Read More »Doha talks fail to yield breakthrough amid delays
AT News Paralysis has gripped the prelude negotiations between representatives of Afghan government and Taliban hardliners as they fail to strike a deal on a roadmap for peace talks KABUL: A breakthrough in the prelude to Afghanistan peace talks has failed to materialise after more than a month of intensive …
Read More »Parliament summons statistics chief over linguistic blunder
AT News KABUL: Ahmad Javid Rasouli, head of national statistics office was summoned to parliament on Monday after reactions to Farsi that was mentioned as a foreign language. The office mentioned Farsi as foreign language in the form for the electronic ID cards. Khan Aqa Rezaie, a member of parliament’s …
Read More »Nangarhar opens new religious office
AT News KABUL: The office of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was formally opened in the eastern province of Nangarhar by the new provincial governor’s office. Dawood Mojahed, head of provincial department for hajj and religious affairs, said Monday that new governor Ziaulhaq Amarkhil formed the office after …
Read More »Gunmen kill doctor amid worsening security in Kabul
AT News KABUL: Some unknown gunmen have killed a medical doctor after breaking into his drugstore in PD 18th of Kabul city, officials said Monday. The incident took place on Sunday evening in Abdulrahim-e-Shahid area of PD 18th. Kabul Police’s spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz said that one person was wounded in …
Read More »Steel industry shrinks amid dwindling sales
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Industries Union says steel industry has been declining after government stopped sales of scrap metal to steel factories. Afghanistan has dozens of steel mills, but the government has stopped selling state-owned iron ore to these plants and now it is being smuggled to neighboring countries, especially …
Read More »Afghanistan records 71 new COVID-19 cases
AT News KABUL: At least two covid-19 patients lost their lives batting the coronavirus and 71 other people were contracted the virus in the last 24 hours across the country, the health ministry said Monday. With the fresh cases, the total tally increased to 39,870 throughout the country. These positive …
Read More »5 killed in Kunduz mortal attack
AT News KABUL: Five civilians were killed in a mortar attack in Kunduz, an insecure province in the northeast, officials said. The incident took place early Monday in the Shorabi Qeshlaq neighborhood of the Kunduz city, the provincial capital of the same name. Fawad Aman, deputy spokesman of defense ministry …
Read More »Parliament rejects budget for new president-approved offices
AT News KABUL: The parliament decided to drop some organs in the government shaped by presidential decree from next year’s budget. Parliament Speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani, called these offices “illegal” in Monday session and 40 lawmakers supported the decision to omit them from national budget. Rahmani cited the constitution’s article …
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