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AT-Kabul: The Australian government has contributed five million Australian dollars to provide food assistance to people affected by drought in Afghanistan. According to a statement,this brings Australia’s total contribution to WFP’s operations in Afghanistan to AUD15 million in 2018. And the WFP will use the contribution for a joint response …

AT-KABUL: Since the start of 2018, roughly eleven journalists across Afghanistan have died in direct terrorist attacks while on duty, making it the deadliest ever half-year for journalists and other media personnel working in Afghanistan, an Afghan media watchdog said Wednesday. The data from this period indicates a 22 percent …

AT Monitoring Desk-Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan are its original residents and not migrants from India, the Afghan ambassador to the US has said here at a memorial service for the minority community members killed in a terrorist attack in Jalalabad recently. At least 19 people were killed on July …

AT-KABUL: Security situation has been deteriorated on the Kabul-Gardez highway in central Logar province as travelers say Taliban insurgents stop their vehicles on the route for checking. Zarif, a resident of Ali Khan Qala village of Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban attacks on government’s vehicles …

AT-KABUL: In an attempt to up the ante against allegations of Hezb-e-Islami political party of Afghanistan, lead by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar vis-à-vis large-scale voter registration fraud, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Wednesday argued that such claims were baseless without justifiable proof. “Nobody has the right to sling accusations against the …

Will the air corridors program of the government really boosts up economy? The history of the past air corridor and its implementation in proper way, suggests yes. Noting landlocked geographical point of Afghanistan, air corridor alongside trade routes, possibly will highly play significant role in bolstering economy. The expansion of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Design work has been completed and Tajikistan could begin construction of a cross-border rail link to Afghanistan by end of 2018, the Afghanistan Railway Authority said on July 16. An ARA team led by Chief Executive Mohammad Yamma Shams recently travelled to Tajikistan to discuss the project, …

AT-KABUL: Taliban’s increasing presence and activities have sparked worries among the members of senate, as they say that more than half of area of the Khak-e-Jabbar district is under the militants’ control. “The government’s armed opposition have presence in 40 out of 60 villages of Khak-e-Jabbar district. They have warned …

AT-KABUL: Security forces have pummeled enemy strongholds in offensives that have left at least 147insurgents dead and 33others wounded over the past days. Monday night was deadly for the Taliban, as more than 25 other militants were killed during a clash with security forces in Kandahar province. Police chief’s spokesman, …

AT-KABUL: Furious protests have erupted in northern Kunduz province in reaction to the kidnapping of a jeweler’s son, as protesters shut the governor’s house on Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Wali Ahmad, son of a jeweler, four days ago in Kunduz city. Reports say that more than 10 people have been …