AT News Report KABUL: At least 89 militants have been killed and 17 others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country within past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that Afghan National …
Read More »Afghans don’t want missionaries of death
Afghan diplomats lambast Erik Prince over his proposal on privatization of Afghan war AT News Report KABUL: Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, has a plan to privatise the war in Afghanistan, but he faced harsh criticism from an Afghan diplomat who was audience at the Oxford …
Read More »ED: Heavy rains, floods made miserable lives
Heavy torrential rains across Afghanistan has badly affected already war stricken, terror and violence civilians. Preliminary reports reveal that scores of people were injured and around one dozen killed only in Kandahar province. Similar are reports from Central Ghaur and Bameyan provinces. The reports from Kandahar reveal that due to …
Read More »Karzai says nationwide peace maintains women’s rights
AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai congratulated March 8th, International Women’s Day to all Afghan women, paying respects to women’s position. “Surely a nationwide peace causes maintaining women’s rights and their progresses. Women of our country will be able to have further access to their rights in a …
Read More »Uprising militias lacking weapons in south
AT News Report KABUL: Militias of the public uprising movement in Nangarhar province complain of problems they are facing, and say they lack enough weapons in fight against government’s armed opposition groups. They say that some of districts in Nangarhar were cleared of armed opposition groups and people enjoy peaceful …
Read More »Death toll rises to 11 in Kabul mortar attack; 95 others wounded
AT News Report KABUL: The death toll of Thursday’s mortar attack on a gathering in west of Kabul jumps to 11, while 95 people were injured, interior ministry said. Nasrat Rahimi, interior ministry’s deputy spokesman said Friday that there were three women among the dead and 12 others among the …
Read More »Women must be part of all talks about future of Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations in Afghanistan on Friday marks International Women’s Day, which is being observed globally under the theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” putting innovation at the centre of efforts to build solutions that work for women and girls and achieve gender equality. …
Read More »“US continues supporting Afghan women”
AT News Report KABUL: In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, U.S. Ambassador John Bass hosted the “Generations of Change” luncheon focused on facilitating mentoring relationships between different generations of female Afghan leaders, US embassy in Kabul said in a statement sent to Afghanistan. At the event, Ambassador …
Read More »Current conditions ‘don’t merit’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: US
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of negotiations with the Taliban currently underway “don’t merit” a troop withdrawal, despite President Donald Trump’s goal of a drawdown. “These decisions have …
Read More »Stoltenberg to Taliban: “You can’t win militarily”
AT News Report KABUL: In his briefing to mediamen on Friday, the NATO Secretary General Jeans Stoltenberg said alliance presence in Afghanistan was to create condition for peace, with clear message to the Taliban that the group would not win on the battlefield. Addressing reporters alongside Polish president, Stoltenberg said …
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