AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai strongly condemned a bomb attack that targeted a vehicle carrying staff of Khurshid local television Saturday afternoon, killing 2 people including a journalist. Two staff members including a journalist and a technical worker were killed and six including a woman were fatally …
Read More »Health Minister ends mission amid virus surge
AT News KABUL: Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz ended his official mission on Sunday in leading Afghanistan’s healthcare apparatus, as the war-ravaged country sees surge in cases of the novel coronavirus. Mr. Feroz served as Afghanistan’s health minister for five years and his tenure officially ended on Sunday. “I am delighted …
Read More »Masoud urges warring parties to grab ‘historic chance for peace’
AT News KABUL: Former Advisor to Ex-President Hamid Karzai, Shahzada Masoud said that the current peace opportunity, which is a historic one, should not be missed in a bid to reach a durable peace in the war-hit country. It has to be utilized in the best manner, he said. Pointing …
Read More »NATO ties its pullout from Afghanistan to a U.S. drawdown
AT News KABUL: Kay Bailey Hutchison, the US permanent representative to NATO has said that the alliance’s troop withdrawal depends on American troop drawdown and that NATO would leave in coordination with the US at the same time. Welcoming the acceleration of prisoner swap between the Afghan government and Taliban, …
Read More »Hundreds protest shutdown of sage man who touts virus cure
AT News KABUL: Hundreds of residents of Kabul, the capital city, have staged demonstrations against the blockage of the Afghan sage—Abdul Hakim Alokozai’s treatment centers, calling on the government to allow him distribute the medicine that can treat covid-19 patients. Alokozai’s office said that they have prepared medicine but the …
Read More »Kabul Police nab 13 on criminal charges
AT News KABUL: Kabul police have arrested 13 people on the charge of different crimes during crackdowns carried out in Kabul city and its districts. Police succeeded in arresting 13 people accused of killing, armed robbery, plundering, stealing vehicles and mobiles of the citizens in PD 2nd, 9th, 10th, 15th …
Read More »Afghanistan virus cases surpass 15k
AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Sunday said that it has recorded 680 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, pushing the total tally to 15,205 across the country. Health ministry said that out of 1,112 suspected samples, 680 of them came positive in different …
Read More »1,000 Taliban inmates freed in 2 days
AT News KABUL: The process of prisoner release between the Afghan government and the Taliban has been accelerated as 710 Taliban prisoners were released on Saturday and 290 others on Sunday as part of peace efforts. The National Security Council said that based on President Ashraf Ghani’s decree, the Afghan …
Read More »Kabul urges Taliban to stop hostilities
AT News KABUL: The government says that Taliban had no excuse now to continue war and the militants need to bow to the wills of people of Afghanistan. “Taliban’s prisoners are being released, so the war should not continue anymore,” said Dawa Khan Minapal, President Ghani’s Spokesman on Saturday. “The …
Read More »Abdullah ready for direct talks with militants
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah says he was ready to sit and directly talk with the Taliban representatives to end the war in the country. Abdullah who was appointed by President Ashraf Ghani as head of the reconciliation council, said Saturday that he would not spare any efforts that lead …
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