AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah who is running for presidential competition, on Sunday rejected his rival in the race President Ashraf Ghani’s orders as “impracticable”, saying the orders are campaign-based. He accused the president of threatening those businessmen and investors who do not accept his demands. Abdullah …
Read More »Major power outage hits Afghanistan after militants destroyed pylons
AT News Report KABUL: Thousands of families across the country were deprived of electricity after the militants destroyed the power pylons in northern Baghlan province, official said Sunday. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in a statement said that power pylons were destroyed in Balak Mirzad Hassan Ta Vilalge of Baghlan. …
Read More »Hundreds of polling centers to remain shut on voting day
AT News Report KABUL: Over 430 polling centers would remain shut during 28 September Presidential Election due to security threats across Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. Spokesman for Ministry of Interior, Nasrat Rahimi in a press briefing said that the security forces would provide security to 4,942 of 5373 polling centers …
Read More »Trump says Taliban knows “they made a big mistake”
AT News Report KABUL: US President Donald Trump in a fresh tweet has said that Taliban knows they made a big mistake and they have no idea how to recover it. “Taliban has never been hit harder than it is being hit right now. Killing 12 people, including one great …
Read More »Taliban shadow governor for Samangan killed
AT News Report KABUL: Taliban shadow governor for northern Samangan province along four others have been killed, defense official said Sunday. Deputy Spokesman for Ministry of Defense, Fawad Aman said that shadow governor of Taliban for Samangan province and other 4 Taliban fighters were killed during an airstrike carried out …
Read More »Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat after soldiers killed
AT News Report KABUL: Pakistan summoned Afghanistan’s Charge d’ Affaires in Islamabad on Saturday to protest against killing of three Pakistani soldiers, while one more seriously injured near Durand Line. “A strong demarche was made over the latest incident of firing on a Pakistan military contingent engaged in completion of …
Read More »72pc of Kabul residents don’t have access to potable water
AT News Report KABUL: Kabul Water Supply Department for capital zone has said that seventy-two percent of Kabul residents have no access to the clean water. Sardar Wali Malikzai, head of the department, said that only 28 percent of Kabul residents have access to potable water. He said that the …
Read More »169 Taliban rebels killed in fresh ops
AT News Report KABUL: At least 169 militants have been killed and 39 others received injuries in multiple extensive military crackdowns within past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National …
Read More »Taliban revokes ban on ICRC operations in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: The Taliban group on Sunday has removed a ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and gave a guarantee of security for its staffers doing humanitarian work in areas under their control across Afghanistan. In April, the Taliban group imposed ban on the …
Read More »Joe Biden, you’re wrong on Afghanistan; “We are one, united nation”
AT News Report KABUL: A US presidential candidate has claimed that Afghanistan had been torn into three parts, speaking on a decentralized system in the war-hit country. Joe Biden, former vice president who now runs for presidency representing the Democrat party, said in an electoral debate that Afghanistan is an …
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