AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The first shipment of Afghanistan’s transit goods has been shipped to China through Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar, southern Iran, Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Organization, Behrouz Aghaei said while the world is affected by the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Amritsar Six days after Pakistan announced the resumption of Afghan exports to India through the Attari-Wagah border to facilitate transit trade, the first consignment of goods crossed over to India in two trucks on Saturday. All covid-19 related protocols were followed. “Two trucks of licorice (mulethi) …

AT News KABUL: Three members of a single family lost their lives after a motorcycle they were traveling in, hit with a roadside mine in northwestern Badghis province, official said on Saturday. The blast occurred on the Qala-i-Naw Abkamari highway, provincial official said. Parents and their children were killed in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: An Afghan Sikh named Nidan Singh Sachdeva who was kidnapped by the Taliban from Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan, almost a month ago, has been rescued. The incident happened when he was performing community service at a gurudwara. He was reportedly abducted by four men when …

AT News KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission says that 17 armed attacks were carried out against mosques, gurudwaras and other worship places as well as prayer leaders and other worshippers since last October. It said that 170 people were killed in these attacks, while 272 more were wounded. The …

AT News KABUL: Political and military analyst Ali Ahmad Jalali calls for lifting every obstacle put on the road to peace negotiations, saying that this is only the Taliban to get benefit from the talks postponement. Jalali, who served as interior minister under former president Hamid Karzai, said Saturday that …

AT News KABUL: At least 129 civilians were killed and 291 others wounded in the violence committed by the Taliban in the past one month, an uptick in violence that potentially could undermine the fragile peace process. The Taliban fighters have continued their violent campaign against the Afghan civilians, the …

AT News KABUL: The NATO Civilian Representative to Afghanistan said that intensive violence by the Taliban was the biggest challenge for peace in Afghanistan. In an exclusive interview with Salam Watandar radio, Stefano Pontecorvo said that the Taliban have expressed committeemen for peace but continuation of their violence and the …

Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation, have held talks with the US National Security Advisor, Robert C. O’Brien on Afghan peace process, in which Washington reaffirmed support to a democratic Afghanistan. The presidential palace in a statement …

AT News KABUL: Throughout decades of war, the Afghan children, who have often been deprived of education and from a joyful life, were triggered into conflicts by the armed groups that resulted into their killing, maiming and even losing part of their bodies during the conflicts. In northern Jawzjan province, …