AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned the continuing of night raids in the Alingar district of Laghman province, in which several civilians were killed and injured. Karzai called on the war parties to abandon fighting and accelerate efforts to gain a nationwide peace through intra-Afghan talks. …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The World Bank Group has approved a $98.8m financing package, comprising a mix of guarantees, a loan, and swaps, for two gas-to-power energy projects in Afghanistan. The financing is aimed at increasing domestically generated electricity through the gas-to-power energy projects, whilst leveraging private financing for the …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Two people have been killed during an attack on Taliban’s co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Bardar’s house in Pakistan, Pajhwok Afghan News quoted an intelligence source as saying. Hafez Mullah, the brother of Mullah Baradar, was among the two persons killed in the attack which took place …
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AT News Report KABUL: A Kabul-based political activist, Nazar Mohammad Motmaien came under an armed assault on Friday but he fortunately escaped unhurt. Motmaien said that he was on his way home after offering Friday prayers when an unknown armed man opened fire at him. He said after some retaliation, …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Traders in northern Kunduz province have said a number of commercial companies at the Sher Khan port have been declined from 145 to only eight due to bad security situation. They warned that all companies may halt its activities at the port if the security situation …
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AT News Report KABUL: A member of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has said that the cyber-security of IEC’s data center has been enhanced in order to counter any threat of cyber-attacks. Mohammad Hanif Danishyar, a member of the IEC told Ariana News that two German experts from Dermalog, a …
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Based on recent reports, Pakistani police have evicted 180 Afghans while beating them from a market located in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Afghans, who had been in possession of the outlets for decades, were evicted supposedly in compliance with a verdict of the Peshawar High Court (PHC). The Firdous …
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AT News Report KABUL: Residents in the eastern province of Laghman the other day have took out to the streets to give vent to their anger over killing of at least three civilians in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces. Residents claimed that the operation was carried out …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Economic relations between Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are developing dynamically, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said at the opening of a trade exhibition promoting Afghan products, Trend has reported. According to the minister, Afghanistan – Azerbaijan trade turnover increased by 30 percent in 2018, and by 23 percent …
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AT News Report KABUL: Six Daesh rebels were killed in a US drone strike in the Pachir Agam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. Provincial Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News the drone strike happened in the Sulaimankhel locality on Thursday night in which …
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