AT News KABUL: The Afghan traders and university students residing and studying in China, have donated medical equipment cost some one million dollars to the ministry of public health, the ministry said. “A number of Afghan traders and students based in China with the cooperation of chamber of trade and …
Read More »Khost police chief killed in bomb blast
AT News KABUL: Sayed Ahmad Babazai, provincial police for Khost was killed along with his three colleagues after a roadside bomb struck his vehicle in the province, interior ministry confirmed. Tareq Aryan, spokesman for the ministry, said Friday that the incident happened in the Nader Shah Kot district, when Babazai …
Read More »Taliban frees 17 prisoners in Herat
AT News KABUL: Giving a lightly stead step to the fragile Afghan peace process, the government and Taliban have been engaged in swapping prisoners on daily bases as part of the US-Taliban peace deal signed on February 29th in Qatari capital Doha. Local officials in western Herat on Friday spoke …
Read More »Talks Plod On To End Leadership Feud
AT News KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and rival Abdullah Abdullah are close to resolving a standoff over last year’s disputed presidential election that has launched the country’s politics to pandemonium. Sources privy to ongoing negotiations between the Afghan leaders allude to the finalization of the talks to end the …
Read More »RSF calls for end to impunity for crimes against journalists
AT News KABUL: The Reporters Without Borders also known as Reporters Sans Frontier (RSF) have voiced concerns over the release of those Taliban prisoners, who have been behind deadly attacks against media workers. The organization said its researches showed that the Taliban have been insisting on the release of a …
Read More »Khalilzad resume his Afghanistan peace quest
Khalilzad met Mullah Bardar in Qatar, discussing humanitarian ceasefire and reduction in violence—fled to India and discussed the US peace and reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan with country’s top official AT News KABUL: US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has resumed has diplomatic mission to succeed the US-Taliban peace …
Read More »Health minister tests positive for COVID-19
Afghanistan has 3,778 infections, 109 fatalities AT News KABUL: Public Health Minister, Ferozuddin Feroz has contracted the covid-19 as the country see surge in cases of the virus, bringing the confirmed cases to 3,778 across Afghanistan. Spokesman for the health ministry said Friday that covid-19 test of Minister Feroz came …
Read More »$400M from WB to bolster Afghanistan’s virus fight
AT News The World Bank on Friday approved a USD 400 million grant to help Afghanistan “sustain the pace of key economic and public finance reforms and support the country to manage current risks and uncertainties compounded by the COVID-19 crisis.” “The Incentive Program Development Policy Grant comprises USD 160 …
Read More »Ramadan should be a good enough reason for ceasefire; 43 Civilians Killed in Its First 10 Days
AT News KABUL: Violence has stayed unabated in Afghanistan; 43 civilians have been killed with 73 wounded in the fighting during first 10 days of Ramadan. Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in a special report revealed on Thursday that 43 civilians – three women and two infants included – have …
Read More »Iran’s Audacious Denial of a Crime Against Humanity
By Samiullah Doorandesh For long, the inhumane treatment of Afghan nationals by the Iranian authorities have gone largely unnoticed. The Afghan refugees and migrants working in Iran have been subject to physical and psychological abuse, unfair working conditions, discrimination and frequent detention. Now and then, visuals of such actions have …
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