AT News Report KABUL: The state minister in peace affairs, Abdul Salam Rahimi has held a meeting in Beijing with the newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Kabul, where both sides exchanged views over preparation of intra-Afghan talks, which is likely to be held in China. The state ministry for peace …
Read More »Karzai concerned over ‘foreign meddling’ in Afghan elections
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai on Monday met with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) head, Tadamichi Yamamoto and expressed concerns over the foreign interferences in the Afghanistan’s presidential elections. Karzai said that the UN office in Afghanistan should remain as an impartial international body …
Read More »Embroiling Afghan forces in dirty political battles against national interest
AT News Report KABUL: Members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are true son of this soil who all the time echoed strong resolve to defend the country, a young politician said, while expressing his grave concerns over embroiling them into dirty political battles. ANDSF is the …
Read More »‘Will not allow IEC to count fake votes’
AT News Report KABUL: A number of tribal elders and supporters of presidential hopeful, Abdullah Abdullah have warned that they would stand against the Independent Election Commission (IEC) if the corrupted votes were not separated from cleaned. In a gathering has been held by the “Stability and Convergence”, electoral team …
Read More »Protests to vote recount continuing in provinces
AT News Report KABUL: The independent election commission says that the vote recount process is normally going ahead, while reports say of vast protests to the process in different provinces. The commission said Monday that they had already wrapped up the vote recount in 12 provinces, while work in another …
Read More »US have effective military justice: Esper
AT News Report KABUL: US Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper has called American military justice system affective following President Donald Trump’s decision of pardoning three war crimes cases of the US military officers. In respond to a question in a joint press news with South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo, …
Read More »31 militants killed in fresh military ops
AT News Report KABUL: At least 31 militants were killed and two 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 on Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »80 tons of drugs set alight in Ghazni
AT News Report KABUL: Afghan Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) has torched 80 tons of drugs during anti-narcotics crackdown conducted in southern Ghazni province on Sunday night, official said Monday. Afghan Counter-Narcotics Special Operation Police backed by Afghan Air Force (AAF) conducted an overnight joint operation in Zawij and Shah Gul …
Read More »Troubled America, Confused Pakistan and the Blood bathed Afghanistan
By Hafeez Hassanabadi One thing is certain. Americans and their allies know that Pakistani intervention in Afghanistan and its vested interests in this country are the main issues that still remain unresolved even after killing and displacing millions of people. But regrettably, while each time they attempt to resolve the …
Read More »Editorial: A miserable failure
Being a fate-deciding exercise for Afghanistan, the election process has been unfortunately mired in controversy so far. Already behind schedule by weeks in terms of results, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) first began the much-awaited, yet disputed, vote recount on November 9 amid staunch bickering from some candidates regarding ‘shady …
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