AT News KABUL: With recording of 658 new covid-19 cases within past 24 hours, the tally has reached to 11, 831 across Afghanistan, as the country is going through its peaking glassy of the pandemic virus. According to a statement issued by the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, Kabul is …
Read More »‘Extend truce to stop bloodshed’
AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Tuesday has called for extension of the three-day ceasefire observed during Eid al-Fitr festival so that killing of civilians is avoided and all the attention is focused on the peace process. Shaharzad Akbar, head of AIHRC, wrote on her …
Read More »China welcomes violence reduction, reiterate support to Afghan peace quest
AT News KABUL: The Government of China has welcomed violence reduction between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban group, and reassured its strong support to the ongoing peace efforts to end war in the country. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Zhao Lijian in a press conference on Tuesday said that …
Read More »Afghanistan coronavirus cases breach 9,000-mark
AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health has registered 542 new cases of Corona virus that gets the total number of people infected with the virus to 9,216 across the country. “We registered 542 new cases during the past 24 hours across the country. With the new cases, the …
Read More »Taliban grasping at straws to save U.S. deal
AT News KABUL: In his meeting with the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, the head of the Taliban Qatar Based Political Office; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has warned that “any further” delay in the implementation of the US-Taliban peace deal would “harm” the fragile Afghan peace process. …
Read More »Violence at its crescendo: Taliban killed 25 civilians last week alone
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan National Security Council said that at least 25 civilians were killed and nearly 100 others wounded by the Taliban during one last week of the holy month of Ramadan. According to the security officials, the militants killed over 17 civilians at the first week of Ramadan …
Read More »Airstrike killed 7 civilians in Jawzjan
AT News KABUL: A local official in northern Jawzjan said that at least seven civilians, including women and children were killed in an airstrike conducted by the Afghan security forces in Muridan district of the province. The official, who wished to go unnamed, said that the victims included four children, …
Read More »Many Taliban militants are infected with coronavirus
AT News KABUL: A number of the Taliban militants have infected by the pandemic covid-19 in the western Herat province, where the group has been making hurdles against the medical implementations to combat the coronavirus since the virus spread widely and turned the province as epicenter of the epidemic. Based …
Read More »China Delivers Food Aid to Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: China delivered another batch of food assistance to Afghanistan on Thursday to help the needy people celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month Ramadan. This is the fourth batch of assistance China has provided to Afghanistan since the outbreak of COVID-19 in February. …
Read More »Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic and Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind
By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the world with unprecedented ferocity. No country can stay out of it and keep safe alone. Nothing is better than the global public health crisis to reveal the objective reality that all human beings are bound to …
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