AT News KABUL: Russian foreign ministry has expressed concerns over concealing of UK forces’ war crimes in Afghanistan, saying that Moscow “strongly condemns the crimes against civilians in Afghanistan and urge the British and New Zealand authorities to complete the investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice.” Speaking to …
Read More »London Bridge attacker identified as Usman Khan of Pakistani origin
AT Monitoring Desk Metropolitan Police has identified the London Bridge attacker as British national Usman Khan, a 28-year-old male from Staffordshire, Dawn reported on Saturday. According to the details, Usman Khan was born in London and is of Pakistani ethnicity. He stabbed two people to death and left three injured on Friday, in …
Read More »Its people’s right to stage civil demos: IEC
AT News KABUL: Last Friday hundreds of supporters of “Stability and Convergence” electoral team led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have come out on the streets of capital Kabul to express their anger over performances of the Independent Election Commission (IEC). The protestors have demanded the IEC to nullify the …
Read More »Editorial: Shambolic exercise
Although the prospects of resuming peace talks to end the 18-year conflict give war-weary Afghans a sense of relief, the highly disputed presidential election only takes it away. It’s been two months since the presidential election was conducted but the electoral management bodies haven’t been able to announce the preliminary …
Read More »31 more Daesh fighters surrendered to Afghan forces in Nangarhar
AT News Report KABUL: In the past weeks, a large number of Daesh or so-called IS fighters, have surrendered to the Afghan security forces with the latest on where a group of 31 Daesh fighter along with 62 women and children laid down their arms in eastern Nangarhar province. Nangarhar …
Read More »‘Contacts between US, Taliban laudable’
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference on Friday said he welcomes “contacts” between the United States and the Taliban and said that the US consults with NATO allies “regularly” regarding peace efforts in Afghanistan. “Secretary Pompeo has discussed, briefed Allies. Ambassador Khalilzad has …
Read More »55 insurgents killed in fresh raids
AT News Report KABUL: At least 55 militants have been killed and three others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »Afghanistan pursues Indonesia’s support in realizing gender equality
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Afghan government is pursuing Indonesia’s support to attain gender equality and sustainable peace in the country. “Quality and effectiveness are indicators of sustainability. When you get quality assistance, nothing can destroy it,” Afghan Minister of Information and Culture Hasina Safi remarked during the opening …
Read More »Ghani criticized for Trump meeting in US base
AT News KABUL: Lawmakers slammed President Ashraf Ghani for going to the US military base out of Kabul to meet the country’s president Donald Trump, calling it an “insult to all Afghans”. Trump landed at the Bagram air base in a sudden visit to Afghanistan on Thursday where he attended …
Read More »Universal profile of a successful leader
The term ‘Leadership’ is broadly defined as the relation between an individual and a group built around some common interest and behaving in a manner directed or determined by him. The relation of leadership arises only where a group follows an individual from free choice and not under command or …
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