AT News KABUL: Five countries, including Qatar, are mediating to break the deadlock in the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, according to a source within the High Council for National Reconciliation, after weeks of stalemate that broke out in the wake of unresolved disagreements between the …
Read More »Taliban’s deputy military commission killed in Helmand
AT News KABUL: Deputy military commission of Taliban for southern Helmand province along with his eight fighters was killed in an airstrike conducted on Friday, officials said Saturday. The Ministry of Defense said Mullah Amanullah was killed after the Afghan Air Forces (AAF) had targeted him in Nawa district of …
Read More »Ex-security official accuses US of ‘looting Afghan mines’
AT News KABUL: Rahmatullah Nabil, a former intelligence chief claims that the United States and other “players” do not have a real program for peace in Afghanistan, but their goal is just to loot the country’s natural reserves. Nabil said Saturday that the proxy peace in Afghanistan was not only …
Read More »Karzai saddened over university professor’s death
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed condolences for the death of Mahboobah Hoqooqmal, a law professor and former head of political sciences faculty of Kabul University. In a statement issued on Saturday, Karzai called late Mrs. Hoqooqmal as scientific, academic and one of good cadres in Afghanistan who …
Read More »74 Taliban rebels killed in Kandahar airstrikes
AT News KABUL: At least 74 Taliban rebels were killed in the airstrikes conducted by the US and Afghan forces in southern Kandahar province, provincial officials said Saturday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Jamal Nasir Barekzai said that aerial operations were carried out in Zari, Maiwand and Arghandab districts of the province. …
Read More »Editorial: Bleak future
The Afghan government and the Taliban group have opened too much hype against each other and the historic negotiations aimed at ending the bloody 19-year war are in danger of collapse. Taliban attacks are killing scores of Afghans every week, reciprocally, dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in counterattacks by …
Read More »‘Peace process sans ceasefire to face trust deficit’
AT News KABUL: Second Vice President Sarwar Danish said that the peace process is losing trusts as violence continues and “there was no halt to the ongoing violent behaviors.” Danish cited the remarks in a meeting of the NATO Senior Civilian Representative, Stefano Pontecorvo on Saturday. During the meeting, both …
Read More »16 criminals nabbed in Kabul
AT News KABUL: The Kabul Police has arrested 16 people on the charge of different crimes during the latest crackdown around the city. These suspected criminals are accused of armed robbery, disruption of public order, plundering and stealing mobiles of the citizens in different parts of Kabul city in the …
Read More »Afghanistan records 91 new covid-19 infections
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 91 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 41,425 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Saturday. These infections reported out of 210 suspected samples – 20 positive cases were recorded in Kandahar, …
Read More »Man arrested for murder charge in Kabul
AT News KABUL: Police in Kabul say they have arrested a man charged for murder. Ferdows Faramarz, Kabul police spokesman, said Saturday that the man named Ali aka Gorg (Wolf), who was charged for killing a Kabul resident named Zakariya. “Ali had killed Zakariya two years ago in the west …
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