AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has granted the highest army rank of ‘Marshal’ to his former vice-president Abdul Rashid Dostum, according to people close to Dostum. Enayat Farahmand, a close ally of Dostum, said Friday that they received the presidential decree on Thursday. Ghani’s office is yet to comment …

AT News KABUL: Senior members of the Jihadi party named Jamiat-i-Islami Afghanistan (JIA) are wrangling for the chairmanship after some party figures decided this week not to recognize Salahuddin Rabbani as chief of the party anymore. The decision was made in a meeting led by Atta Noor, the party’s chief …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has come under serious criticism following a controversial statement about Afghan youth, who he said were engaged in ‘corruption’. On Wednesday, President Ghani appeared on a live TV debate on National Radio Television and conferred on his policies regarding Afghanistan’s issues. However, his response …

Corruption, especially administrative one, is a public menace in Afghanistan that has tainted the country’s reputation in almost every sector. Last month, the head of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said corruption existed at virtually every level of the Afghan government, including security and civil services. This …

The expected launch of all-Afghan talks this month have aroused interest of foreign investors and Afghanistan’s economic development AT News KABUL: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad in a video conference with President Ashraf Ghani and Chariman Abdullah Abdullah conferred on overcoming obstacles in the way of …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Friday that 302 new cases of coronavirus have been registered round-the-clock across the country, taking the nation’s overall tally to 32,324. The cases were recorded in Kabul (39), Herat (43), Kandahar (3), Balkh (3), Paktia (20), Takhar (9), Bamyan (57), …

AT News KABUL: The Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) on administration corruption says the procurement system faces 37 main challenges. It said Wednesday that the measures taken by the procurement department are symbolic and political in which officials tried to pretend fake achievements. Mortaza Noori, an official from MEC said …

AT News KABUL: Troubles made after the new Central Bank governor’s appointment, still remain unsolved with conflicting reasons. Ajmal Ahmadi was appointed by President Ghani as the acting Central Bank governor. He immediately fired five senior officials that was followed by reactions from government, parliament and people. The Central Bank …

AT News KABUL: The United States keeps pressuring Taliban to stay committed in implementing of a February 29 peace deal the two sides signed which allows Washington to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that in his recent phone call with the Taliban …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban group claimed that they have released 732 members of the Afghan security forces since the start of the prisoner swap process to facilitate the intra-Afghan talks. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban Qatar based political office’s spokesman said the group had released 20 Afghan security forces last …