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AT-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has voiced concern over the level of violence around the campaigning period for the parliamentary elections, following Tuesday’s attack targeted election campaign rally in eastern Nangarhar province, leaving 14 dead and over 50 others wounded. In a report, UNAMA urged all …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton and Secretary of State Micheal Pompeo held separate talks with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Washington, where issues in Afghanistan dominated the separate meetings. Qureshi is visiting Washington on Pompeo’s invitation, who had visited Islamabad earlier …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 24 militants were killed and 6 wounded in military offensives carried out by Afghan security forces within the past day. The defense ministry in a statement said that Afghan National Army in collaboration with Afghan National Police and National Directorate of Security launched joint operations …

AT-The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday that it has hitherto received more than 13,000 biometric devices and that it is prepping to send those electronic voting devices to provinces. The spokesman of the poll panel, Hafizullah Hashimi, told newsmen on Wednesday that 250 people have been hired to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Nine terrorist suspects who are alleged to have been involved in murder, arms smuggling, having links with militant Taliban, and forging fake identity cards in northern Kunduz province have been arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks, said the intelligence agency. The suspects have admitted they have …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah will be arriving in Indonesia on Wednesday for a two-day official trip, reported his press office. At the head of a high-level delegation, Dr. Abdullah left Kabul to Indonesia Wednesday on an official visit upon an official invitation by Indonesia’s Vice President …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Army helicopters have delivered confidential election materials to northern Faryab provinces, said Shahin Corps Spokesman Hanif Rezaee. Hundreds of boxes containing confidential election materials have been conveyed to Faryab by army helicopters in several trips, he asserted. The materials were transferred from Shahin Corps campus and handed …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned Tuesday’s suicide attack in eastern Nangarhar province, in which at least 14 people were killed and over 40 other received injuries. The former President called the attack an assault on the democratic and civil rights of the people of Afghanistan. “I extend …

AT-President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said the waters of Afghanistan’s river basins will be stopped from going waste in neighboring countries and he will ensure that farmers in Afghanistan utilise them. He said that the river waters flowing unrestrictedly to other countries will be stopped and that the government is …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s former leader on Wednesday used a forum in Istanbul to praise historic relations between his country and Turkey. Hamid Karzai’s remarks came at the “Disrupting the Established Order: Rise of the Global South,” session of the TRT World Forum, for which Anadolu Agency is a global …