AT News KABUL: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party) came under huge criticisms by politicians following his statement in which he warned to besiege the presidential palace if the party’s prisoners are not released from government custody. Hekmatyar was addressing his supporters on Sunday and threatened to stage a …
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To bring into account the fact that around 70 percent of the Afghans are living under the poverty line, there should be no space for any sorts of unpleasant incidents to bring them financial damages. Last Saturday, a mass fire was ignited in Islam Qala business port in the eastern …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban militants have abducted 11 people working for a dam in the western province of Herat, officials in the province said. The incident happened on Sunday around the Pashdan dam in the Karrokh district, according to Wakil Ahmad Karrokhi, a member of the provincial council. Karrokhi …
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32 human rights defenders and 33 media professionals were killed in three years, but 11 of them were just killed within four months as Afghanistan reels under daily violence, including targeted-killings, a UN report says AT News KABUL: The United Nations said at least 65 journalists and human rights activists …
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AT News KABUL: At least 80 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 36 others were wounded during crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Monday. Afghan security forces supported by the Afghan Air Forces conducted operations in …
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AT News KABUL: At least seven Daesh terrorists, including its key member and suicide attackers, were killed during an operation carried out by the intelligence forces in eastern Nangarhar province. The Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) conducted the operation in Ghochko area of Jalalabad, the capital …
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By Nadir shah Katawazai The Peace Deal between the US and Taliban signed in late February 2020, consists of four main points. The first and the most crucial step were to break the ice between the Afghan government and Taliban through intra-afghan dialogue that became the turning point of the …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded four new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, indicating a sharp decrease in fresh cases. One patient has lost his life battling the virus during the same period of time, said the Ministry of Public Health on Monday. The new cases come …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban group has denied the killing of its leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, saying that such a report is “inaccurate”. A local newspaper quoted some unnamed sources in Quetta state of Pakistan, where the Taliban enjoys safe havens, as saying that “Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, leader of the …
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AT News KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan. 13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and …
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