AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” condemned an attack on a hospital in Wardak province that killed and wounded a number of civilians including women and children. The attack took place in the Tangi Sayedan village of Jelga district. Karzai called on the war parties to avoid …
Read More »Senators slam intra-Afghan meeting for praising Taliban attacks ‘jihad’
AT News Report KABUL: The members of senate strongly criticized a joint resolution released by the Taliban-Afghan politicians after their two-day meeting in Qatar called as intra-Afghan dialogue for calling Taliban’s war as “jihad”. The senators in their Tuesday session rejected parts of the resolution as the constitution. Some 70 …
Read More »Taliban’s key member detained in Balkh
AT News Report KABUL: Taliban’s military commission deputy for Northern provinces, have been detained in an operation carried out in Balkh province. Afghan National Police arrested Gul Haidar along with his two comrades in Dorahi Hayratan area, said Nasrat Rahimi spokesman for the ministry of interior. He said that the …
Read More »Taliban assault leaves 16 security forces dead in Kunduz
AT News Report KABUL: At least 16 security personnel have been killed in a Taliban attack in northern Kunduz province, not long after a two-day intra-Afghan conference in Doha just wrapped up on Monday when the Taliban and Afghan elites promised ‘to reduce violence’. The Taliban political representatives, Afghan government …
Read More »Resolution of Intra-Afghan Peace Conference; Cycle of violence must stop
AT News Report KABUL: At end of two-day all-Afghan conference in Doha, Qatar, a very optimistic impression has been come out in framework of a joint resolution to end the cycle of violence against Afghan civilians by stopping attacking public areas. The third intra-Afghan conference was carried by a group …
Read More »Afghanistan opens two new air routes as Pakistan airspace remains closed
AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) said Tuesday that two alternative new air routes have been inaugurated following closure of Pakistani airspace for the Afghan overflights for more than four months now. The newly launched airways would facilitate flights from Afghanistan and connect eastern and western Asia, …
Read More »Khalilzad in China after Doha peace conference
AT News Reports KABUL: Concluding his seventh round of peace talks with the Taliban representatives in Doha,US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday said he headed toward China—a reflective of optimism by the Afghans over the recent all-Afghan talks. “I had a meeting with Taliban this (Tuesday) …
Read More »Editorial: Major breakthrough
Though the Qatar based political office of Taliban Tehrik yet to make minds for announcing a permanent and durable ceasefire to around 18-year long armed resistance but so far they earned hearts of war-stricken, agreeing for reducing violence by halting attacks on “religious centers, schools, hospitals, educational centers, bazaars, water …
Read More »36 drug traffickers sentenced to prison
AT News Report KABUL: At least 36 drug runners pleaded guilty of drug trafficking and had been sentenced to years behind bars during the past one week. A statement issued by the Courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that 36 drug traffickers were sentenced to over one–five years’ …
Read More »7 members of a family killed in Baghlan airstrike
AT News Report KABUL: A large number of residents in northern Baghlan province took to the streets on Tuesday to give vent to their anger over martyrdom of at least seven members of a single family in an airstrike probably conducted by foreign forces in Pull-e-Khumri, the provincial capital city. …
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