AT News Report KABUL: In reaction to the citizens’ criticism on social media over the UN Assistant Mission in Afghanistan’s statement regarding the misbehaving conduct of an electoral commissioner, the Mission has blocked the personnel accounts of some of the social media users. Khushal Nabi Zada, whose twitter account was …
Read More »Protests turned violence over vote recount
AT News Report KABUL: Supporters of a presidential hopeful Abdullah Abdullah protested the vote recount by the independent election commission in the provinces of Jawzjan, Samangan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz and Takhar that turned to violence with police who fired at them. Abdullah’s team said Sunday that one protester was killed in …
Read More »Karzai saddened over shooting of vote recount protesters
AT News Report KABULL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed regrets of concerns over police shooting of protesters to the recount of presidential polls in Kunduz and some other provinces in which a number of protesters were killed and wounded. In a statement, Karzai also called the use of security forces …
Read More »Candidates’ council call on IEC to resolve domestic problems
AT News Report KABUL: The council of presidential hopefuls asks the Independent Election Commission to resolve its domestic problems instead of recounting the polls. The council said in a statement on Sunday that it wouldn’t accept the vote recount unless the commission didn’t assure them that valid and invalid polls …
Read More »Was Blackwater behind the collapse of Afghan peace talks?
A Turkish News Agency, Dailysabah, has reported that the meeting in Islamabad on Oct. 4 between the U.S. negotiators, led by special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, and the Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was an important milestone to resume the peace negotiations, which were abruptly called off by …
Read More »US supports delay of Taliban prisoners swap
AT News Report KABUL: US ambassador to Kabul, John Bass has announced Washington’s support to Afghan government’s decision to reassess on the delay of prisoner swap with the Taliban militants. “We supported President Ghani’s announcement to release three Taliban prisoners to promote peace and the decision to reassess their pending …
Read More »Kidnappers’ gang busted in Kabul
AT News Report KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday said that its operatives have busted an abductors and armed robber gang during a fresh crackdown in Kabul. Intelligence forces conducted a preemptive operation and succeeded to arrest a group of four kidnapers and armed robbers in PD17th, NDS …
Read More »Dozens of Daesh fighters surrender to Afghan forces in Nangarhar
AT News Report KABUL: A group of 72 Daesh or so-called IS-K affiliates were surrendered to the Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday night, official said Sunday. A group of 72 Daesh loyalists along with 172 women and children were surrendered to Afghan security forces in Haska …
Read More »37 militants killed in fresh raids
AT News Report KABUL: At least 37 militants were killed and 25 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 Sunday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …
Read More »Role of Political Party and Government in a democracy
In a democratic set up party-system of the state is essential and has profound effects on the process of social, economic and political changes. Democracy seems to be the order of the day which is a widely accepted form of governance and still activities are on to democratise the institutions, …
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