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AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have destroyed a narcotic processing factory in Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, official said on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Sherin Aqa Faqiri, the spokesman for 201 Selab Military Corps in the east, told Pajhwok Afghan News the drugs factory was destroyed during a …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghan government has warmly welcomed the US National Security Strategy (NSS) that offers lots of support to Afghanistan and India, while taking a tougher approach against Pakistan and names it as antithetical to US interests in the region. President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) …

AT-KABUL: Three fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorist group entered a partially constructed building in western part of capital Kabul—Police District 5th, on Monday to attack facility of National Directorate of Security (NDS), but their evil designs were failed as the Afghan security forces …

AT-KABUL: The government seems serious in protection of the water dams as water and energy minister said Monday that a committee was formed for this purpose. Ali Ahmad Osmani, told legislators that the committee was formed to prevent security threats against the dams. “Each dam has a certain enemy,” Osmani …

AT-KABUL: A large number of Taliban militants have been suffered massive casualties as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force in northern Sar-e-Pul province, 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army said on Monday. According to a statement issued by the Shaheen Corps, the airstrikes …

AT-KABUL: The President Ashraf Ghani on Monday warned the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces to stay away from politics and ethnic issues and be disciplined and patriotic to serve the country in a better way. President Ghani made the remarks during the introductory ceremony of three new deputies to …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has accepted the resignation of Atta Mohammad Noor as Balkh governor who remained in charge for over 13 years. Accepting Noor’s resignation, President Ghani appointed Mohammad Dawod as new governor of northern Balkh province, a statement from Presidential Palace said. Previously, Noor had tendered his registration …

AT-KABUL: The government claims that some two million migrants have voluntarily returned home from neighboring and other countries. “From this number, 500,000 have returned just this year,” said Sayed Hossain Alemi Balkhi, minister of refugees and repatriates. He said that compulsory expelling of Afghan refugees was prevented in the European …

By Suhasini Haidar-Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says U.S’s South Asia policy has been a disappointment as it hasn’t backed it up with action against terrorist safe havens in Pakistan Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hosted a banquet for him, attended by …

Afghanistan is going to hold the long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections which are being scheduled on July 7, 2018—some three years after they were meant to take place. Without doubt, the success of polls will depend on proper funding and of course better security environment. Certainly, the government can’t …