AT News Report KABUL: The second USAID Forward Together: Women in Business regional trade fair ended this week in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province. The three-day event (March 21-23) coincided with this year’s observance of Nowruz. USAID supports these annual regional trade shows to showcase products and services of Afghan women-owned companies …
Read More »UNAMA condemns attack on civilians in Helmand
AT News Report KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has strongly condemned the attack carried out Saturday during celebrations around Nowruz in the southern town of Lashkar Gah, Helmand province. Initial findings indicate that at least three civilians were killed and dozens were injured in an attack that deliberately targeted local …
Read More »OIC condemns terrorist attack in Southern Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the twin bombing that took place on Saturday at an agricultural exhibition in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. The blasts killed at least four civilians, including a senior government official, and wounded more than 30 farmers and their families, …
Read More »Karzai welcomes quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai says he welcomes a quadrilateral meeting held in Washington with delegations from the United States, Russia, China and the European Union. “I welcome the meeting in Washington of the representatives of US, Russia, China and European Union on Afghanistan,” Karzai said on …
Read More »Afghan achievements should be maintained in peace talks: Achakzai
AT News Report KABUL: A Pashtoon leader urges that achievements gained by Afghan people and government in the past 18 years, should be fully protected during the peace negotiations. Leader of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awamai Party (PMAP) Mahmood Khan Achakzai told BBC Pashto that a nation who has fought for 40 …
Read More »Lack of textbooks vex students
AT News Report KABUL: School students in Kabul city complain that they don’t have access to enough textbooks, saying that they had to buy books from private book stores to continue their lessons. “My name is Shamla, I am in the second grade at school. At the first grade I …
Read More »Delay in presidential election depends on election commission, Abdullah says
AT News Report KABUL: Some presidential candidates including Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday that the delaying in presidential elections was authority of the Independent Election Commission and the government did not intervened. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said on Thursday in Mazar-e-Sharif city, provincial capital of Balkh the New Year would …
Read More »HRC concerns over increasing civilian casualties
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission (HRC) calls the increasing civilian casualties a matter of concern. It said Saturday that the new year began with civilian casualties, referring to Thursday’s rocket attacks and bombings that killed at least six civilians and wounded more than 25 in the …
Read More »“We respect Afghan sovereignty”
US, China, and Russia underscored their respect for the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Afghanistan. AT News Report KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation met with representatives of China and Russia in Washington to discuss Afghan peace push. “Met my counterparts from Russia and China, …
Read More »“Unilateral decision on delaying presidential polls not acceptable”
AT News Report KABUL: A presidential candidate team “Peace and Moderation” has expressed its deepest concerns on the latest IEC’s unanticipated announcement to further delay the Afghan Presidential Elections to 28th September 2019 that previously set for 20 July. Based on the Afghan Constitution and applicable laws, the presidential election …
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