AT News KBUL: A NATO official opposes any foreign troop drawdown as “hastily” before Taliban’s commitment peace. “This will be hurriedly to pull out of Afghanistan before a comprehensive peace agreement,” Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO’s former senior civilian representative to Afghanistan said on Sunday. The Taliban signed a peace deal …

AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Sunday urged the Iranian authorities to investigate the burning and killing of Afghan refugees by Iranian police in the city of Yazd last week. Following the deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car fire in Iran, Mr. Karzai said …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Ministry of Defense has said that Iranian officials vowed to prosecute those behind shooting a car in Yazd which killed three Afghan migrants. Three Afghans were killed and four injured in Iran’s central Yazd province after their vehicle was shot at by Iranian police, starting the …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan government is seeking to determine the date and venue of intra-Afghan negotiations, saying the dialogue between the two sides would be held in a near future. Spokesperson for the ministry of state in peace affairs, Najia Anwari said that efforts are underway to form the consultative …

AT News KABUL: Unidentified armed men have killed a former intelligence agency officer along with her sibling sister in the southeastern Logar province, local officials said. Provincial Police spokesman, Shahpoor Ahmadzai, said the incident occurred on Saturday evening in Mughalkhil area of Mohammad Agha district. Mrs. Pashtun, an ex-intelligence officer …

AT News KABUL: Four members of a single family were killed in a shooting rampage spree carried out by the Taliban fighters in Maidan Wardak province on Friday, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident happened in Chak district after the Taliban shot “the tribal elder, his wife, son and grandson,” …

Despite the novel coronavirus pandemic has put many issues on the back-burner, Afghanistan’s daily death rate is climbing and the total number of Covid-19 cases (advancing rapidly towards the 20,000 mark) continues to spike unabated. Over three hundred people have lost their lives to the virus so far, including some …

AT News KABUL: A notorious drug dealer has been arrested during a crackdown conducted by the Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) cell in Kabul on Sunday. The operation carried out in 7th PD in Kabul as a result a disreputable drug dealer was arrested, said a statement issued by Kabul Police Press …

AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Sunday said that it has recorded 791 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 20,342 in Afghanistan. Out of 1,427 suspected samples, 791 were tested positive in different provinces during this period. According to the …

By Zia Nezam The US came to Afghanistan after losing nearly 3000 people in 9/11 attacks carried out by al Qaeda terrorists. The main objectives of the US entry in Afghanistan: to rid it of the al Qaeda scourge, prevent further attacks on US soil, then leave Afghanistan. Has the …