AT-KABUL: At least 25 Haqqani Terrorist Network members were Killed in a Joint Clearance Operation conducted by Afghan forces in Paktika. “ 25 Haqqani Terrorist Network members were killed and 30 others wounded in Afghan National Defense and Security Forces joint clearance operation carried out in Tandi Hotel and Wali …
Read More »Religious scholars demand Loya Jirga call to solve crisis
AT-KABUL: Some clerics in the Kabul city asked the government to call the traditional Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) for finding a solution for what they called “the current crisis”. The scholars during the Friday prayers, accused the government of inefficiency, saying this has caused the increase of “unprecedented civilian casualties”. …
Read More »Editorial: Taliban’s response to peace call
Just 20 hours after the quadrilateral meeting participated by representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States, Taliban militants carried out a chain of attacks targeting the security forces across the country. On Tuesday, the insurgents killed nearly 100 people both police officers and civilians in the south, east …
Read More »Taliban must have no hope of winning on battlefield: CIA Chief
‘US will do everything it can to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table in Afghanistan, but Pakistan must first deny the militants a safe haven on its soil’ AT Monitoring Desk: KABUL: CIA Director, Mike Pompeo said that the United States will do everything it can to bring the Taliban …
Read More »ISIS in Afghanistan is US tool to cause trouble in whole region: Karzai to RT
The US uses the Islamic State insurgency as a tool in Afghanistan, aimed at destabilizing the whole region, the former Afghan president told RT, urging the international community to convince the US that it needs to actually fight terrorism. No action was taken against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists …
Read More »Fencing the Durand Line is no different than creating the Wall of Berlin: Hussain Haqqani
“The Pashtuns of Pakistan and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan have not only ethnic kinship, but also historical bond, and to pursue the policy of erecting a wall along the Durand Line wouldn’t be any different than the “Wall of Berlin”, which was created in Germany, says Pakistan’s former ambassador to …
Read More »Beijing calls on Taliban to join peace process
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The People’s Republic of China has condemned in strongest terms the recent terrorist attacks in various parts of the country carried out by Taliban insurgents that took lives of at least 71 people and 170 others wounded, a China official said. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Lu Kang …
Read More »Andar district rescued, 30 Taliban killed
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: More than 30 Taliban militants have been killed by the brave Afghan security forces last night (Friday night) in violent clashes and airstrikes carried out in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, where conflict has been entered a third day, an official said. Late on Wednesday night, …
Read More »70 worshipers killed, 55 injured in Kabul, Ghor mosque attacks
AT-KABUL: At least 70 worshipers were “martyred” and 55 others injured Friday evening in two separate suicide attacks against mosques in capital Kabul and western Ghor province, officials said. In western Ghor province a suicide bomber at 5:00pm targeted worshipers inside the Khwajagan village mosque in Dulayna district of the …
Read More »Editorial: Readers are leaders
Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world because literacy program has been failed as at least 60 percent of Afghan masses are illiterate. Afghan male and female both have been marred from going to school at some stages. The high variation between male and female literacy …
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