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Health ministry lacks budget to fight diabetes successfully By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: As the number of people with diabetes is rising at an alarming rate, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said that diabetes claimed lives of 3,567 people in the past six months but it lacks budget to control it. Commemorating …

AT-Geneva: President of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti invited all Baloch pro-independence parties and leaders to unite. A press statement issued by the party secretariat, on Sunday, Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti said that Baloch Republican Party has been a political and a democratic organization which represents the Baloch nation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health has provided eight ambulances to eight districts of eastern Nangarhar province. Governor of Nangarhar province, Saleem Khan Kundozi, during the hand-over ceremony said that the ambulances were equipped with modern health equipments. He said the ambulances play a vital role in providing …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A US drone strike has killed a dozen Taliban militants including nine foreigners in Nangarhar province, officials said on Sunday. The governor’s spokesman Ahmad Zai Abdulzai said that the strike was carried out in Khogyani district late Saturday, killing a dozen militants including nine foreigners, believed to …

Slovak officials say eight people, including seven Afghan migrants, died earlier this week in the crash of a Ukrainian-registered helicopter in eastern Slovakia. Slovakia’s Interior Ministry said on November 14 the victims of the crash, which likely occurred on November 11, included a Ukrainian pilot and seven Afghans — five …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Spokesman to the Presidential Palace said that legal adviser to the president, Abdul Ali Mohammadi, was not sacked. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Sayed Zafar Hashemi said that Mohammadi continue to serve as the president’s legal adviser. Earlier, media reported that the legal adviser was …

Tragedy-comedy has a long history in Afghanistan.  This history has bruised our national pride. The tragedy is Afghanistan has a longest history of being interfered by others. And the comedy is those who interfere in our internal matters call it an act of helping. When it comes to this tragedy …

AT-KABUL: The Special Electoral Reforms Commission (SERC) urged the government to appoint members of the selection committee soon. The selection committee will propose new members of the Independent Election Commission and Independent Electoral Complaint Commission to the government. SERC Chief, Shah Sultan Akefi, while talking to a press conference on …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: To address power load-shedding issue, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), is mulling to install additional electricity transformers in outskirts of Kabul. Wahidullah Tawhidi told Azadi Radio that four transformers will be installed in Mirbacha Kot district and 12 others will be installed in Kohdaman area of Kabul …

AT-KABUL: As many as 65 Afghan troops surrendered to the Taliban militants in southern Helmand province the other day, said a local official. Merza Khan Rahimi, the provincial governor, confirmed the incident and said that the 65 troops surrendered a military base to the Taliban militants in Sangin district of …