AT News Report KABUL: At least 24 drug runners have been sentenced to years behind bars in the past one week after they were found guilty for drug trafficking. Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) in a statement said on Tuesday that 24 drug traffickers sentenced to10-30 years’ incarceration after examining …
Read More »25 militants killed in raids
AT News Report KABUL: At least 25 militants were killed and six 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 Tuesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …
Read More »China expects inbound trade amid US tension
By Seddiq Hussainy SHANGHAI: China is holding its second international import expo in its financial capital Shanghai as an attempt to open its gate to further inbound global trade, giving a brush-off to the west’s anxiety over its alleged trade malpractices amid a long-drawn trade war with the United States. …
Read More »Karzai condemns drone attacks on Paktia, Baghlan
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned drone attacks on the Aryoub district of Paktia province and Dand-e-Shahaboddin district of Baghlan province, which inflicted casualties to civilians. Karzai denounced in a statement any military operations against civilians as inhumane and against Islamic principles. He reiterated demands to …
Read More »Kabul protests ISI’s misbehavior with Ambassador Mashal
AT News Report KABUL: The Pakistani Embassy in Kabul on Monday announced the closure of its consular section for an indefinite period due to alleged safety and harassment concerns to its diplomatic personnel while the Afghan foreign ministry said it will probe Pakistan’s complaints in this regard. Meanwhile, the Ministry …
Read More »Election conundrum: Some 300,000 fraudulent votes still in biometric data
AT News Report KABUL: Presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah’s electoral team claim that more than 300,000 fake votes were in the independent election commission’s data center that needed to be canceled. Noor Rahman Akhlaqi, a member of Abdullah’s electoral team said Monday that that 112,000 votes that were saved after official …
Read More »Women in bad condition in Sar-e-Pul
AT News Report KABUL: The women rights organization in northern Sar-e-Pul province has accused the Taliban group of committing violence against women in the province. Nabila Habibi, Provincial Director of Women Affairs said over 166 cases of violence against women have been registered in the past six months of the …
Read More »Armed clash over harvesting saffron leaves 2 dead in Herat
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: At least two people were killed during an armed clash over picking saffron harvest in western Herat province, local authorities said on Monday. The incident took place in Ghurian district of the province, the district chief, Farhad Khademi, told Ariana News. He said that two people …
Read More »Editorial: At what cost?
Intensification of war in different parts of the country has underscored the lasting trauma of the escalating conflict that overshadows the impact of peace efforts to at least reduce violence to some level. The assassination of an Afghan government employee while his daughter was next to him has accentuated the …
Read More »‘Stop killing Afghan children’
AT News Report KABUL: Save the Children, an international organization has condemned the recent bombing took place in northern Takhar province that killed nine schoolchildren. The organization in a statement has called on the war sides to halt the “killing and wounding” of the Afghan children. A Taliban bombing killed …
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