AT News KABUL: Officials in Parwan province assure to prevent illegal mine extractions. The comments came Sunday after illegal demining of chromite in the Koh-e-Safi district sparked controversies, with residents blaming powerful individuals of being behind the business. The chromie mine was discovered some 10 years ago in the Akhundzadagan …
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AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed deep concerns over the increasing civilian casualties by the recent bombing attacks. “We have witnessed violence in the country recently that has inflicted casualties on a large number of our country-fellows,” Karzai said Sunday in a statement. “The recent tragic incident in …
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AT News KABUL: Defense Ministry on Saturday rejected claims about civilian casualties in a series of attacks in northern Afghanistan. People in Kunduz claim that 15 civilians have been killed and several injured in the wake of an aerial raid by security forces in KhanAbad district. They said the first …
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AT News KABUL: Security officials say that the recent bombing attacks have increased civilian casualties. According to the officials, two civilians were killed and more than 20 injured in two bombing attacks Saturday in the provinces of Balkh and Paktika. “In two bomb blast incidents in the Janikhil district of …
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AT News KABUL: People in different provinces of Afghanistan have been worried in the wake of a warning issued Saturday by the US embassy that terrorist attacks would probably target government’s civilian servants in the upcoming days and weeks. The human rights activists call on the war parties not to …
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Continued violence hampers peace talks AT News KABUL: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission sees rising violence and hostilities as a blow to ongoing peace talks between the government and Islamist militant Taliban. Escalating hostilities is very alarming and could hamper intra-Afghan peace talks if violence remains high throughout Afghanistan, head …
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AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Takhar province said that a 17 years old girl was shot dead by her husband in Rostaq district. Provincial Governor Spokesman, Jawad Hijri said Farid, whose father is an illegal armed figure in the area, killed her wife. According to him, being helped …
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AT News KABUL: Kabul police have arrested 26 people on the charge of different crimes in a latest crackdown carried out in the city and its districts. These 26 people have been accused of armed robbery, disrupt of public order, plundering, drug trafficking, carrying illegal arms, and stealing mobiles of …
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Four Taliban infiltrators open fire on troops in Kandahar province, killing seven soldiers AT News KABUL: At least seven Afghan security forces were killed on Sunday in an insider attack by four Taliban infiltrators on their base in southern Kandahar province, a security official said. Four Taliban infiltrators opened fire on …
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AT News KABUL: 125 new positive cases of coronavirus registered in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours that brought the total tally to 39,044 cases since the spread of the virus started in the country seven months ago. The ministry of public health said Sunday that these cases came out …
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