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AT-KABUL: There is no will within the government to hold parliamentary elections, the former Independent Election Commission (IEC) Chief Fazl Ahmad Manawi said, calming the government afraid of fair vote. Manawai said this while speaking at a gathering of the Afghanistan Salvation Alliance on Friday, soothing the government yet to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Heavy snow has closed major roads in Ghazni, Maidan Wardak and Bamyan provinces, the Ministry of Public Works announced on Friday, assuring of efforts to clear-clogged roads. The ministry said efforts at clearing the now from the roads were underway involving contracted firms and local councils. Public …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP), Mahmood Khan Achakzai the other day has said that FATA was never a part of Pakistan.  He said this while briefing Pakistan parliamentarian. The Afghan government should lodge a formal complaint against Pakistan’s military presence in FATA region which …

AT-KABUL: Kandahar security official says that 20 militants have been killed in Shahwalikot district, after three hours of fighting between the police and militants, provincial official said on Friday. Provincial Police Deputy Spokesman, Matiullah Hilal told ‘Azadi Radio’ that last night (Thursday night), Taliban insurgents conducted attacked to capture Urzgan-Kandahar …

Regardless of their positions, everyone is going to be held accountable for carrying illegal arms and cars if found guilty during a week-long campaign. The aim of this campaign is to collect the illegal weapons as part of the Ministry of Interior’s efforts to curb violence in Kabul. Indeed, this …

One opposition faction is a group championed by former President Hamid Karzai that is calling for a loya jirga, a grand council of tribal elders, to decide Mr. Ghani’s fate. A jirga, at its heart an unpredictable event, could not only upend the cycle of elections as the democratic transfer …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United States has to reverse the decision of recognizing the city of Jerusalem as capital city of Israel, said the members of extraordinary summit of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held in Turkey on Wednesday. Turkish President Receb Tayyip Erdogan called on …

A peace process by its nature is a complex and tortuous journey, but nothing is impossible when there is will. Regional consensus is very much important to any peace building efforts. But there are some neighbors who proved detrimental to the peace process. Such elements, especially, Pakistan—the hostile neighbor, destroying …

AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Wednesday said that 11 drug trafficker arrested in the past one week. The CJTF said in a press statement that 11 smugglers were apprehended by Counter Narcotics Police through different crackdown in various provinces and were handed over to CJTF …

AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga, or the lower house of the parliament, has rejected the next year’s draft budget, terming lack of balance among the provinces, allocations for unapproved administrative units, and creation of unnecessary positions in some department, as key reason behind the rejection. Some days back, a number of …