AT-KABUL: The Attorney General Office said Tuesday it has started prosecution of a case referred to the prominent politician and former jihadi figure, Sayed Ishaq Gilani. Gilani, the leader of the National Solidarity Movement, a political party has recently said that India was using Afghan soil against its archrival Pakistan. …
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AT-KABUL: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission on Tuesday warned of an increase in child labor in the country. AIHRC in a report said that 90 percent of children are working over 35 hours which is against Child Labor Law. The report which was covered 25 provinces with 657 questioners revealed …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A seven years old girl has been raped and later murdered by a 41 years-old man in Mashad city of the neighboring country, Iran, it has been reported. Neda (the raped girl) faced the attack by an old Iranian man who lured her into his house before …
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AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “strongly” condemned the recent airstrike on the Dasht-e-Archi district in the northern Kunduz province in which civilians were killed. “The former president calls air raids that target houses, schools and hospitals under the pretext of fight against terrorism as anti Islamic act and against all …
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India’s seventh consignment of wheat to be sent to Afghanistan arrived at Iran’s Southeastern Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar on Monday, it has been reported. “India’s cargo vessel named Arezoo carrying 600 containers arrived in Chabahar port in Sistan-Baluchestan province,” Hossein Shahdadi, an official with the province’s …
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Long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections has been planned for 20th October, almost three years past the expiry of the sitting parliament’s five-year mandate – despite major security and logistical challenges and amid pressure of increasingly impatient international partners and consecutive security brass promises to hold the elections prelude to …
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AT-KABUL: A cricket stadium with international standards was opened Monday in Kandahar province. Indian government has financed the project. The inauguration of the stadium took place with the presence of the provincial officials, Indian ambassador to Kabul and a large number of the businessmen and cricket fans. Kandahar provincial governor, …
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AT-KABUL: Over 20 Taliban fighters including a key member of Quetta Shura have been killed and 15 others wounded, after Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban gathering in Northern Kunduz province on Monday. Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban meeting in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz and killed over 20 Taliban …
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AT-KABUL: The enemies of education have sprayed poison into a school in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, sickening about 43 schoolgirls in what authorities suspect is a case of group poisoning. Public Health Director Dr. Aminullah Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News the poisoned girls were evacuated to Bost …
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AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has urged people to push the Taliban into acceding peace talks. Visiting eastern province of Paktia’s Gardez on Sunday, Ghani said the peace proposition he unraveled a month ago was an exceedingly effective plan for achieving a lasting peace. However, Taliban have not responded to the …
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