AT News Report-KABUL: Afghan transport minister who partook in a major trade meeting in Uzbekistan has discussed extending trade cooperation with leading Uzbek corporations. Minister Mohammad Hamid Tahmasi and the companies’ representatives discussed trade, economic, transport and communication cooperation. A statement from the transport ministry said all sides agreed to …
Read More »Joint military drills kill 45 insurgents
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 45 militants have been killed and 37 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security force across the county in the past 24 hours, security official said on Monday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), …
Read More »Govt. evades supporting domestic products
AT News Report-KABUL: The government is evades in supporting domestic products as well as industrialists in the country, trade official said on Monday, accusing government of relying on imports from neighboring countries only. “The National Unity Government is playing double game with investors because yet to come up to the …
Read More »‘Work on Afghan section of TAPI yet to begin’
AT-KABUL: The Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (TAPI) project is far beyond to be called only a gas pipeline scheme–it’s a package of projects including electricity, optical fiber and railway—but despite leaders and senior officials from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and India inaugurated the start of work on the Afghan part of …
Read More »Turkey weights Afghan peace offer to Taliban
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan Chief Executive Officer and Turkish Prime Minister appeared Sunday at a press conference in the Sapidar palace in Kabul, in which Turkish premier putted weight behind recent unprecedented Afghan peace offer to the Taliban—terming it a great opportunity for the group to join peace process. “We …
Read More »‘Pakistan’s integrity violation to share with UNSC’
AT-KABUL: Members of senate were become furies over Pakistan army’s bombardments of Afghan soil, asking the government to not remain silent and share it as a violation of Afghan integrity with the UN Security Council. Pakistani warplanes dropped at least four bombs Thursday night on the Dangam district of the …
Read More »Khost residents launched a sit-in for peace, calling on Taliban to listen people’s demand
AT-KABUL: It has been two weeks now from a peace camping that has been set up in southern Helmand province with sole aim of ceasefire between the government and Taliban which has been getting momentum across the country with similar sit-in campaigns. To support their Helmand brothers and sisters and …
Read More »Editorial: Saffron—spice of life
It is amazing t see dozens of women and men early morning are harvesting the delicate purple flowers (saffron), putting all-out efforts to rapidly gather as many as they can before the sun gets too hot—this is worth appreciation and worth commendable as Afghanistan’s saffron is number one in the …
Read More »‘Fighting terrorism requires political will—not fencing’
AT-KABUL: Afghan officials dismissed Sunday Britain’s support of Pakistan fencing along the Durand Line, saying that creating walls couldn’t prevent terrorist acts. British army chief of staff, Nick Carter supported Pakistan’s fencing along the line, saying it would be helpful in fighting terrorism. The National Security Council (NSA) says that …
Read More »We need a roadmap for peace on basis of mutual cooperation: Karzai
Here is the completed speech of former President Hamid Karzai’s at 7th Moscow Conference Chair of this distinguished gathering, Excellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen: In the world today, more so the region I come from, we seem to be caught in a deadly trap- a trap into which important regional players, and …
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