AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Kabul Process scheduled for February 28 will serve as a platform for the international community to support Afghan efforts to achieve security, peace and reconciliation, and economic development, the US said. “We look forward to that process because we see it as a way to reiterate …
Read More »Int’l court receives 1.17m war crimes claims from Afghans
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The International Criminal Court has received a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims, since the court started collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported. The statements include accounts of alleged atrocities not …
Read More »Taliban will never win on the battlefield: NATO
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said, Taliban has to understand that they will never win on the battlefield urged them to come to the negotiating table and agree to a political solution. The secretary general said this while talking to media in a press conference on …
Read More »Distribution of e-NICs in upcoming 2-day: Abdullah calls for delay in issuance, ‘it’s a national issue, needs more discussion, attention’
AT News Report-KABUL: The long-awaited distribution of the Electronic National Identity Cards (e-NICs) is going to kick off in the upcoming two days by inauguration of some key officials, it has been reported. President Ashraf Ghani, Second Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, and First Lady Bibi Gul have completed biometric …
Read More »Pakistan killed 23, injured 48 Afghan civilians in 2017: UN
AT-KABUL: Pakistani forces have killed 23 and injured 48 Afghan civilians as result of their cross border mortar attacks at least in four Afghan provinces near the so-called Durand Line in 2017, a violation that even “concerned” the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA), a new report revealed Thursday. “UNAMA is …
Read More »Sayyaf in Saudi: ‘Factors behind extremism discussed’
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Abdur Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, head of Dawat Party, in his meeting with senior advisors to the Saudi King, discussed key factors behind extremism in the Islamic World. A member of the Sayyaf-led delegation visiting Saudi Arabia, Jamaluddin Badr, told Pajhwok Afghan News the noted jihadi leader met …
Read More »Power to the people; Uzbekistan drops off power price to Afghanistan
AT-KABUL: Following recent indefatigable efforts of the government to further improve ties with the regional countries, especially to the Central Asian, Uzbekistan decided to decrease the price of power exporting to Afghanistan. The price cut is coming after meeting of the National Security Advisor (NSA), Haneef Atmar to the country’s …
Read More »Fully committed to promote gender equality: Abdullah
AT-KABUL: The National Unity Government (NUG) is fully committed to gender equality, equity of women’s empowerment in the country—meanwhile after the Taliban regime eye-caching development gained, the country’s top official said on Tuesday. The Taliban regime was the darkest period for all Afghan masses in general, but to the women …
Read More »Editorial: Pashtun Long March—soon to bear result
The long suffering ethnic Pashtuns from Tribal Regions, called FATA, unfortunately were waiting for an opportunity to give vent to their grievances against Pakistan and state sponsored terrorism and their aspirations for complete independence. Finally, the extrajudicial killing of Naqeeb Mahsud—an aspiring model hailing from Waziristan in a fake police …
Read More »NATO, US, Central Asian military officials discuss counter terrorism, drug
AT-KABUL: NATO, US and Central Asia military officials attended a two-day Centcom Summit, discussing counter terrorism and narcotics challenges in the region, security official said on Tuesday. “The summit was run by U.S. Central Command which was attended by Joseph L. Votel, commander for U.S. Central Command, NATO Resolute Support Commander John …
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