AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it has encouraged by the Afghan people who turned out to have their voices heard on 28 September and to exercise their constitutional right to vote for their next president. This presidential election was the first completely …

By Wali Muhammad Alizai Internet, especially social media, is undermining the role of the established media that was once used for reshaping public opinion, propagating state’s narrative, and campaigning for public office. Social media provides platform to everyone for influencing public opinion, to dissent with state narrative and to compete …

We all know that girls in Afghanistan are least exposed to learning opportunities. Afghan girls face poverty, lack of sanitation, and most importantly social norms that force them to drop out before they even start learning. Girls in rural areas enroll in school by the age of 7 and drop …

AT News Report KABUL: Political analysts and members of senate reject the idea of forming a new province inside the mountainous province of Badakhshan in the northeast, saying the idea would pave the ground for disintegration conspiracies and establishing another country in Afghanistan. Recently some ideas came out about the …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of lawmakers at the parliament (Wolesi- Jirga) have summoned the minister of interior, Massoud Andarabi on Friday late evening after verbal and physical dispute occurred between the security forces and people’s representatives in Pul-e-Charkhi area of Kabul. The dispute has lasted for hours and …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have arrested a would-be suicide bomber before reaching to his goal in southern Kandahar province, security official said Saturday. Afghan National Police (ANP) identified and arrested a suicide bomber before to reach its target in PD8th in Kandahar city, ministry of interior …

AT News Report KABUL: The Stability and Partnership electoral team, led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has accused some unnamed figures in the Independent Election Commission of colluding with President Ashraf Ghani’s team for presided and organized the systematic fraud in the voting process. Addressing a press conference, second vice …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 10 Taliban fighters were killed and two bomb making factories of the group, were terminated in southern Helmand province. In addition to that nine Taliban rebels were wounded in several joint clearance operations carried out by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in …

With about a week remaining for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the preliminary results – scheduled for October 19 – of last month’s presidential election, the atmosphere of uncertainty is skyrocketing. There are constant claims of fraud since the day the vote was conducted as almost all of …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces in a clearing-operation conducted on Friday night, have wiped out Taliban rebels from Dasht-e-Archi district of northern Kunduz province, security officials said Saturday. Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) cleared Dasht-e-Archi district of insurgents and took control of the center and …