AT News Report KABUL: At least 113 Taliban fighters have been killed and over 50 others wounded during airstrikes in three northern provinces of Afghanistan carried out on Tuesday night, security official said Wednesday. Airstrike targeted Taliban insurgents’ hideout, killing 113 militants, including scores of commander of the group and …
Read More »China gears up for 70th anniversary celebration
By Seddiq Hussainy Beijing is meticulously gearing up to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China on October 1st with a series of ongoing massive scale arrangements. China has been fervent since weeks to marvel the world with a lavish celebration. The extravaganza happens only …
Read More »A journalist among four civilians killed in Kandahar blast
AT News Report KABUL: An Afghan journalist died in hospital on Wednesday of wounds suffered from a planted bomb blast that also killed four other civilians, including a child in PD 14 of Kandahar city, officials said Wednesday. Afghanistan Journalists Safety Committee said Abdul Hamid Hotaki from Hiwad radio succumbs …
Read More »Helmand residents protest civilian casualties
AT News Report KABUL: Hundreds of people in the southern province of Helmand took to the streets of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah on Tuesday to protest government force operations that killed and injured tens of civilians. Some 40 civilians including women and children were killed at the attack that …
Read More »Contract signed for copper mine extraction
AT News Report KABUL: The extraction project of one the biggest copper mine’s in western Herat province, was signed with a private construction company with an amount of 21.3 million US dollar initial investment. The company received the documents of the mines by senior officials, acting minister of finance Mohammad …
Read More »Stoltenberg, Khalilzad discuss stalled Afghan peace talks
AT News Report KABUL: The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has held talks regarding Afghan peace process with the US Special Representative, Zalmay Khalilzad, a statement said Tuesday. The meeting took place at the beginning of the UN General Assembly gathering in New York, said the statement, adding that both …
Read More »Pak’s Khan says Durand is imaginary line, no border
AT News Report KABUL: Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan has said that the Durand Line was drawn by the British colonialists as an imaginary line and there is no border. Speaking in a session in New York, Khan however, did not specify that Durand Line was not unofficial border crossing, …
Read More »Six al-Qaida terrorists among 22 killed in NDS operation
AT News Report KABUL: At least 22 militants, including six al-Qaida members were killed in National Directorate of Security operatives’ raids in Musa Qala district of southwestern Helmand province, security officials said Tuesday. “The al-Qaida terrorists came from Waziristan, Chaman, and Peshawar,” said NDS in a statement. The NDS added …
Read More »Both NUG leaders deserve blame for existing disorders: Atta Mohammad Noor
Afghanistan has been in a whirl of unending war and unfettered turmoil for over four decades now. Peace or state of normalcy is still a distant dream, where militant groups intensified violent acts, and the recent US-Taliban peace talks – the only hope to get Afghanistan out of current war, …
Read More »Pak’s Khan admits his country trained terrorists to fight in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: In an interview at the Council Foreign Relations in New York on Monday, the Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan confessed that his country’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) had trained al-Qaida and other terrorist groups to fight in Afghanistan. It has been an undeniable fact that Pakistani army …
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