AT News Report-KABUL: Five Iranian inmates in Afghanistan jails were sent back on Monday to Iran after a transfer agreement was entered into by both states. Most of them had been convicted of drug-induced crimes. The transfer of Iranian inmates was made at the Kabul airport, said an Iranian consulate …
Read More »Terrorism has no link to Islam
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The 29th Arab Summit — Al-Quds Summit — has strongly condemned attempts to link terrorism to Islam, a religion that sets great store by peace. Leaders and heads of Arab countries, who met in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, issued the call in a unanimous declaration on Sunday “We …
Read More »‘Tajikistan an important country in region’
AT News Report-KABUL: Foreign Minister, Salahuddin Rabbani on Monday met with the President Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, in which both sides discussed political, economic, security and cultural cooperation–bilateral relations and regional consensus, a statement from the foreign ministry said. Thanking the government of Tajikistan for the high level participation in RECCA, …
Read More »Army attends Gulf military maneuvers
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s army has attended the last day of the Joint Gulf Shield Military exercises in Saudi Arabia, the ministry of defense said on Monday. The exercise that was kicked off on March 18 in Saudi Arabia, has brought military personnel from 24 countries under one roof, and …
Read More »Schools, now militant strongholds
AT News Report-KABUL: Both, the Afghan security forces and their anti-group–Taliban and other militant outfits—have been taking shield in schools while battling each other, a tutoring official said on Monday. Commenting on the issue with expressing concerns over it, spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Kabir Haqmal said about 67 …
Read More »Afghan, U.S. Special operations decimate IS-K in north
AT News Report-KABUL: Afghan Special Security Forces eliminated 22 IS-K fighters attempting to defend IS-K’s strategic center of Darzab district, Jowzjan province, a statement from US forces said on Monday. The operation occurred six days after Qari Hekmatullah, the IS-K emir for northern Afghanistan, and his bodyguard were killed by …
Read More »Kabulis infuriated over power line cut
AT News Report-KABUL: Residents of Kabul city are angry over the cut of the line transmitting electricity power to the capital, asking the government to solve this problem as soon as possible. Taliban militants destroyed a pylon of the electricity imported from Uzbekistan in Baghlan province on Saturday, leaving the …
Read More »ED: Prospects of voter registration
Voter registration for the looming parliamentary vote has begun across the war-torn country amid increasing security fears. The long-delayed process to register 14 million adults in 7,000 polling centers is exponentially contingent on security in a country where militants control vast swathes of territory. It is an explicitly puzzling endeavor …
Read More »Skirmish along Duran Line: Army kills three Pakistani forces and arrests four others
AT News Report-KABUL: At least three Pakistani security personnel were killed, several wounded and four others captured alive following a deadly skirmish with Afghan forces on Sunday morning alongside in the outskirts of Khost province along the Durand Line, provincial security sources said. The clashes have had the Pakistani forces …
Read More »Work underway to restore Kabul power
AT News Report-KABUL: Work has been underway to reerecting the downed pylon that has been blown up by the Taliban insurgents in Baghlan province, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said on Sunday, informing its engineers have already start working on it. The Taliban in a predawn attack on Saturday destroyed …
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