AT Kabul: The spokesman of the Kabul Police Command, Khalid Zadran, said a blast occurred in the Sarkariz area of Kabul’s PD6. He said that a bomb attached to a handcart has exploded, killing eight people and 18 others were injured. The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility …
Read More »Teaching the Taliban the wrong lessons
At a recent Track-2 meeting for Afghan and regional delegates, a senior Taliban official was more than confident that the militant group was well on its way to global acceptance. The “Emirate” had “almost completed” the official recognition process from the international community, the official said, citing the number of …
Read More »Hanafi: U.S. Drone Strike Violation of Doha Agreement
AT Kabul: Abdul Salam Hanafi, the second Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate, said the United States drone strike in Kabul violates both national sovereignty and the Doha Agreement, according to sources. “These issues are still unclear to us, the only thing we know for sure is that a …
Read More »SIGAR warns of ignoring women rights in Afghanistan
AT Kabul: In a new report, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has expressed concern about the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. In his 56th quarterly report to the United States Congress, SIGAR pointed out the general situation in Afghanistan, especially the situation of women …
Read More »Al-Zawahiri: From a surgeon to Al Qaeda leadership
AT Kabul: American officials and media announced this Saturday morning that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the senior leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, was killed in an American airstrike in Afghanistan, but who he was and how did he become the leader of the world’s largest terrorist network? Ayman Mohammad Rabi Mustafa …
Read More »Taliban in talks with china over oil
AT Kabul: The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) said in its annual report that the ministry is in discussions with the Chinese CNPCI company about the oil contract for the Qashqari region of the Amu Darya River basin. The Taliban acting minister of mines and petroleum said that Afghanistgan …
Read More »Pakistan edging toward economic collapse
AT Kabul: With the depleting foreign currency reserves and rising inflation, Pakistan is on the brink of economic collapse and heading towards a path similar to the economic downfall of Sri Lanka. “Pakistan’s central bank, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has sent out a distress signal to the government that …
Read More »Farmlands, homes washed away in Amu River overflow
AT Kabul: Some residents of the Imam Sahib district of northern Kunduz province complain about the destruction of their agricultural land and homes by Amur River floods. They said frequent flooding in the river caused them damages and massive loss. If the river’s banks were not fortified, they warned, their …
Read More »UN chief warns of nuclear war
AT Kabul: The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned. “We have been extraordinarily lucky so far,” Antonio Guterres said. Amid rising global tensions, “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear …
Read More »Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in U.S. drone strike
AT Kabul: Joe Biden President of the United States has announced that US killed Ayman al-Zawahiri , the leader of al-Qaeda, who was involved in the September 11 attacks, in an airstrike in Afghanistan last Saturday. Ayman al-Zawahiri took over the leadership of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization in 2011 after …
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