AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai welcomed the restart of releasing of Taliban prisoners from government jails, calling it “an important and good step”. The government restarted the release of remaining 320 Taliban prisoners and released 70 of them on Monday. Karzai hoped that two warring sides honestly cooperate …

AT News KABUL: The government-run high council for national reconciliation says they expect to hold the first round of negotiations with the Taliban delegation next week. Hajji Din Mohammad, deputy chairman of the council said Tuesday that the talks would begin “next week”. Prior to his statement, his boss Abdullah …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of state for natural disaster management put the death toll of the recent fatal floods flowed across the country to 190. According to the ministry, at least 172 people were wounded in these floods. Last week, the flash floods hit Kabul, Kapisa, Wardak, Logar, Nangarhar, …

AT News KABUL: The government has resumed releasing of 320 Taliban prisoners whom President Ghani believes are “dangerous”, after a two-week pause following the release of 80 of the 400 imprisoned insurgents. A government source said Tuesday on condition of anonymity that 70 prisoners were released late Monday from the …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai expressed support to the chairman of the high council for national reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah for the formation of the body based on consultations. Karzai said Tuesday in a statement that he would support Abdullah’s position to consult political leaders, parliament speakers, tribal elders, …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 31 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 38,200 across the country, the health ministry said on Tuesday. 162 suspected patients were tested, in which 31 of them came positive, the ministry’s statement said. 10 cases …

AT News KABUL: At least 13 Taliban militants were killed and 12 others wounded during a crackdown carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province, defense officials said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Defense in a statement said that a group of Taliban was gathered who were …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan cabinet’s law committee on Tuesday approved the proposal of inclusion of mother’s name in the national identity cards. The decision was made after some women activists and female MPs demanded the inclusion of mother’s name in the official documents besides father’s name. These activists launched the …

AT News KABUL: The UK has called on the Afghan warring sides to take the current peace opportunity to end the war through negotiated settlement.   “There is an historic opportunity to bring an end to the conflict through a negotiated settlement with the Taliban. To realise this, the violence …

By QU Dongyu Global hunger has been on a regrettable rise in recent years, and despite Asia’s economic clout, the continent — home to more than half of the world’s undernourished — has not been spared. Now Covid-19 is leading to a slowdown of regional economic growth and further threatening …