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AT-KABUL: Representatives from Kandahar province in the senate say that a large number of the voter registration centers remain closed in the province due to lack of necessary equipment. Rahmatullah Achakzai, a member of senate, said Tuesday that most of the voter registration centers in Kandahar lack electoral equipment and …

AT-KABUL: Official at Afghanistan Central Civil Registration Authority (ACCRA) has informed on Tuesday about opening of an Electronic National Identity Card (e-NIC) distribution center in Kabul, the capital city, in the upcoming days. In the face of rift between the leaders of the National Unity Government over distribution of electronic …

Certainly, women are the integral part of our society and the world. Today’s development in the world could not be happened sans women’s huge participation and tireless efforts. No nation can rise to the height of glory unless women stand side by side with meal collages. We need Afghan women …

AT-KABUL: The active participation of everyone in political decision-making is essential for the country’s stability and development, observed panelists in a UN-backed symposium in the central highlands province of Daikundi. Community leaders, women’s rights advocates, government representatives and electoral officials met at a symposium, organized by UNAMA’s Bamyan regional office, …

AT-KABUL: Afghan Taliban leaders have called on Pakistani religious clerics to boycott the Indonesian government’s efforts to broker a peace deal in war-ravaged Afghanistan ahead of an international conference of religious scholars, according to reports, underlining the desperate efforts of the group to drill any peace attempt in the country. …

AT-KABUL: A suicide attacker who attempted to target a blood donation campaign was shot dead on Monday in Shahr-e-Naw Park before reaching his target, officials said; a failed terrorist attempt in the wake of a string of suicide bombings. This time terrorists wanted to target a blood donation campaign that …

AT-KABUL: Minister of Interior Wais Ahmad Barmak on Sunday during a questioning in the Parliament regarding election security said his team was working on ‘stringent plans’to beef up security in voter registration centers, explaining that they will change tactic against militants as has the Taliban. We are jointly working with …

AT-KABUL: As many as 36 people – most of them children – have been killed and dozens other received injuries in aerial operations carried out by the Afghan forces helicopters following multiple rockets and firing heavy machineguns during an open-air ‘dashtar bandi’ religious ceremony next to a madrassa where hundreds …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Interior said Monday it was working hard to free the Indian engineers kidnapped Sunday by Taliban along with their Afghan interpreter in the northern province of Baghlan. The ministry spokesman, NajibDanesh said that police would use any possible way to free the engineers. Seven Indian engineers and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Indian Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar said India is focusing on people-oriented development in the war-ridden Afghanistan. As per a press release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday, MJ Akbar attended an international conference in Tajikistan themed on Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism on May …