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AT News Report-KABUL: One hundred and nine people have been given prison sentences by counternarcotics courts of the country for charges of drug trafficking over past month, authorities said Saturday. The courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Saturday said that 109 drug traffickers arrested in the past one …

AT News Report-KABUL: At least two army soldiers are unaccounted for after an emergency landing of an army helicopter in the mountains of southern Kandahar province, authorities said Saturday. Two soldiers have been wounded in the hard landing. Ministry of Defense Spokesman said that “an army chopper during landing faced …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the foreign airstrikes on the civilian houses in the Jabul Saraj district of Parwan province. The US-led foreign air forces launched attacks on the houses of people Thursday night that killed and injured a number of residents. The former president offered concerns over …

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s administration has formed its own negotiating team of eleven members led by Chief of Staff Salam Rahimi for seeking and initiating peace talks with the Taliban. The negotiating team of the president includes two cabinet ministers, Minister Mirwais Balkhi of Education and Minister Hassina Safi of …

AT-KABUL: Some political analysts claim that the government is misleading the route of the peace process by shaping a board under the title of ‘Peace Consultation Board’. They say that the members of the board were appointed by the president’s office and can is not only competent to hold talks …

KABUL: Tens of local residents in Parwan province shut an arterial highway to traffic early on Friday morning in protest to a botched Afghan-coalition partnered operation in the district of Jabal Saraj. The protestors shuttered the Kabul-Mazar highway, claiming that three civilians had died in the military operation which was …

KABUL: The government and foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan are trying to further empower the national army’s air force. The US military trainers believe that Afghan air force was capable enough to confront enemies. They say that the Afghan air force was well-armed compared to the past years that has …

KABUL: Some politicians are concerned over what they claim “marginalization of government” in the bigger policies, with Ahmad Wali Massoud, head of a government’s opposition party saying that the government was not authorized to work on peace or war. He said Friday that the government of Afghanistan was kept away …

KABUL: Scores of army soldiers are thought to have been killed and dozens injured when terrorists attacked a mosque in their base in southern Khost province on Friday morning in the latest of a series of bloody strikes against civilians just in the wake of another terrorist attack on clerics. …

KABUL: The government has issued overseas travel ban on the First Vice President General Dostum who was denied boarding an aircraft by the police on Friday. He was heading to Turkey for medical treatment. Sputnik quoted sources close to Gen. Dostum as saying that he was not allowed on Friday …