AT News KABUL: Police have saved three children in the northern province of Kunduz who were said to be smuggled to Pakistan. Hejratullah Akbari, provincial police spokesman, said Wednesday that the kidnapped children were about nine and 10 years old. “These children were planned to be taken to Pakistan but …
Read More »Afghanistan records 24 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths in last 24 hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 24 new coronavirus positive cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 38,544 across the country. Two patients have lost their lives battling the virus during this period, the Public Health Ministry said on Wednesday. 332 other patients have recovered during …
Read More »Ambassador of France reiterates his country’s full support for Afghan peace quest
AT News KABUL: Acting Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar has met with the French Ambassador to Kabul, Mr. David Martinon on Wednesday, where they discussed latest developments in the peace process. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said that the Foreign Minister thanked the “people and the Government of …
Read More »10 civilians killed as Saleh escapes assassination attempt unscathed
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s first vice president survived an assassination attempt with only light wounds after a bomb detonated near his traveling convoy in Kabul city on Wednesday morning. Taliban didn’t claim responsibility for the attack on Amrullah Saleh, which killed at least ten people and wounded a dozen others. …
Read More »Fazly says govt. freed 6,300 Taliban prisoners
“Now that there’s regional and international consensus on Afghanistan peace, there are attempts to sabotage the process by targeting Afghan leadership” AT News KABUL: A top government official said that the government has released 6,300 Taliban prisoners as a measure to leave no room for the Taliban to make any …
Read More »Islamophobia & Bollywood Threaten India’s Popularity in Afghanistan
Arwin Rahi According to a 2015 Gallup poll, India was the most loved country in Afghanistan, where the former’s approval rating was at 62%.[1] Five years later, although India’s approval rating among Afghans is still high, there are indications that India’s popularity is declining. There are two main reasons for …
Read More »Afghan Government Should Crackdown on Corrupt Officials, Deliver Good Governance to Garner Public Support
Corruption has been one of the major causes for the failure of Government policies throughout last eighteen years since the United States toppled the Taliban regime in 2001. In the advent of formation of Government to fill power vacuum created after the Taliban regime was toppled by the invading forces, …
Read More »Editorial: Reactions over shake-up of Taliban negotiators
The impasse hampering the intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government has seemingly been broken with the completion of the prisoner swap process between the sides but some minor technical issues still exist on the way to the historic development in terms of bringing peace to the country. …
Read More »What lies behind astronomical rise in Afghanistan violence
AT News KABUL: As ratcheted-up efforts to start peace talks coalesce with rising hostilities, Afghanistan army says Taliban have been defeated in the battleground. The Afghan government and Taliban insurgents are claiming upper hand in the fighting, with intra-Afghan talks looming and violence rising in epic scale. The army is …
Read More »Abdullah calls for calm with Taliban as peace talks near
AT News KABUL: Amid solid preparations for intra-Afghan negotiations, Dr, Abdullah Abdullah said Tuesday that both sides will be starting direct peace talks in coming days, appealing for calm with the militant group. “We have no enemy in our homeland,” Dr. Abdullah said, “And that’s why we should end enmity …
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