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AT Monitoring Desk-The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has elected nine new members including 24-year-old Samira Asghari, an Afghanistan women’s national basketball team player. Afghanistan was ineligible to compete at the 2000 Sydney Games because its National Olympic Committee did not follow the Olympic Charter, most notably the Taliban prohibiting female …

AT-KABUL: Some 50 per cent of the Kuchis (nomads) would be deprived of attending in this month’s 20th legislative elections, officials warned. The independent department for the nomads said Tuesday that if the polling took place according to the current electoral procedure, thousands of the nomads would not be able …

AT-KABUL: People’s representatives in the parliament pose different reactions to the US special envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad’s recent visit to Kabul and meeting President Ashraf Ghani and other senior officials. Members of senate say that peace in Afghanistan depended on the honesty from the regional and world countries, …

AT-KABUL: Tribal elders claim that hundreds of civilians had been killed by the Afghan and foreign airstrikes during the past three months in the Jaghatoo district of Wardak province, demanding the government to stop such strikes that take only the lives of civilians. In a gathering in Kabul, these tribal …

AT-KABUL: Experts and political personalities participating in the Rana Think Tank monthly session contended that elections rigged by thousands of fake Tazkiras and stickers will nudge the country towards an unrestrained and uncontrolled crisis. They believed that surge in insecurity, absence of rule of law in about 50pc of the …

AT-KABUL: The government once again emphasized Tuesday it will exert the utmost to ensure security ahead of the crucial parliamentarian elections across the country. As Taliban on Monday in a statement termed the parliamentary election an American led process, the group instructs all its fighters to halt this process throughout …

AT-KABUL: A parliamentary candidate was killed along with his seven supporters after his office was ripped by a suicide bombing in southern Helmand province Tuesday afternoon. A suicide attacker stormed and blew himself up inside the office of Saleh Mohammad Achekzai parliament candidate in Lashkargah city at around 2:00pm today, …

AT-KABUL: At least 16 armed militants were killed and eight others wounded after clashes with Afghan forces in western Badghis province, police officials said. Afghan police forces killed 16 Taliban fighters and wounded eight others during conflict in Jawand district of Badghis province, said statement issued by MoI. The insurgents …

United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is visiting Pakistan amidst hectic electioneering process in war stricken country with hopes of getting positive response in favor of calls for return of peace and an end to terror. Prior to landing of Khalilzad in Islamabad, Pakistan media highlighted Taliban’s threats …

Drought and shortage of water has been turning in to a serious concern in many countries in the recent years. Afghanistan is not an exception of the universal problem, but the difference between our country and the world is that other countries hold plans to fight this deadly problem by …