AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Taliban freed two Westerners they had held for more than three years on Tuesday, in exchange for the release of three senior members of the Haqqani network, the New York Times reported.  Sources told TOLOnews that the handover took place in Zabul province. Kevin King, 63, from …

AT News Report KABUL: Deputy of Chief Executive Office and a member of presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah’s team, Mohammad Mohaqiq said the presidential election has been engaged in crisis and that the situations were out of Independent Election Commission’s control.   He lambasted United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) …

“No one has the right to announce election results until disputed votes cleared” AT News Report KABUL: Presidential hopeful and leader of “Hezb-e-Islami”, a political party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused the German company “Dermalog” of working in favor of one electoral team in the voting process of Afghanistan presidential polls. …

In this modern era, Afghanistan still suffers from the scarcity of electricity – imported by the existing power utility from some Central Asian countries – which has proven inadequate to meet the needs of people in the whole country. Besides, it’s been years now that the Da Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat …

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of ongoing election tensions, a prominent elite and leader of “Hezb-e-Junbish” political party, Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on President Ashraf Ghani not to repeat “past history” and not to be in dreams of “suppressing” the citizens. “I am very concerned about security …

AT News Report KABUL: Some political leaders criticize President Ghani for what they allege “monopoly” of the upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations in the Chinese capital, saying that the talks should not be controlled by the government. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami party, who is competing in the presidential contests, said Tuesday …

Amid the growing insecurity in Afghanistan with civilian casualties at its peak, there have been numerous reports of atrocities perpetrated by all sides into the conflict – namely the Afghan government, the US and the Taliban – against innocent Afghan people. Miserably, such war crimes go unpunished almost all the …

AT News Report KABUL: Some analysts have called the foreigners interference in presidential polls a reason behind the election crisis in the country. The analysts protested that Sri Lanka’s presidential polls results were announced in only one day but Afghanistan’s election results have been gone for months. A member of …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned the US President Trump’s decision to pardon those American troops who have killed Afghan civilians and committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Karzai denounced the move as against all human norms and principle, saying that the US government proved by this …

AT News Report KABUL: The role of women throughout the Afghan peace process with the Taliban has been so far significant. There have been three rounds of intra-Afghan talks conducted between the Afghan political elites and the Taliban delegation. Two of them were in Moscow and the third one in …