AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A senior Iranian official said a major railway connecting Iran and neighboring Afghanistan will be ready in March as construction of a key cross-border line is nearing completion. Abbas Khatibi, a deputy to Iran’s roads and urban development minister, said that the Iran would link up …
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AT News KABUL: Religious scholars emphasize on acceleration of peace efforts, calling peace a necessity for the people of Afghanistan. In a gathering held Sunday in Kabul city, religious scholars said that only those people oppose peace process whose families are living in foreign countries. They emphasized that peace backers …
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AT News KABUL: Doctors at the Indira Gandhi child hospital in Kabul have gone on strike to protest government carelessness over abduction of one of their colleagues who was kidnapped some 10 days ago. The physicians said Sunday that they had stopped visiting of patients since the past week. Dr. …
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AT News KABUL: Members of parliament and political leaders criticize the government for being incurious for peace efforts, saying it is not showing readiness for the intra-Afghan negotiations. The criticisms come as the US and Taliban negotiators are to agree on a temporary cease-fire and peace deal. The lawmakers said …
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AT News KABUL: A survey conducted by NAI—an organization supporting the open media in Afghanistan, has showed that journalists scrambling in getting information from the government’s spokesmen, and majority of them expressed dissatisfaction with the drift. Over 250 journalists have been interviewed in 24 provinces of the country, in which …
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AT News KABUL: The human rights defenders on Sunday said that at least six civilians were killed in a joint military operation conducted by the Afghan and NATO security forces in Kapisa province. According to a statement by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, four other civilians received injuries in …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban denied reports over agreeing with a ceasefire offer, saying they have not yet made decision in this regard. The US envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad at his tenth round of negotiations with Taliban, urged a ceasefire and violence reduction in Afghanistan to pave the …
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88 cases of violence against journalists—12 injuries—seven arrest—three kidnapping—34 threat and insult AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has been once again labeled as a deadly country for media workers and journalists as still they are being threatened and killed. 88 cases of violence against them were registered in 2019, including 10 …
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AT News KABUL: In the wake of ongoing air and ground operations, the Afghan security forces on Sunday have killed Taliban’s deputy shadow governor for Kushenda district of northern Balkh province and his four associates. 209 Shaheen military corps said that the Afghan security forces conducted crackdowns against Taliban militants …
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AT News KABUL: At least 60 Taliban militants have been killed and 10 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
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