AT-KABUL: Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Sunday said that it has implemented over 40,000 schemes in different villages across the country in the past three years. “MoRRD has implemented 40967 projects at a total cost of $916 million in the past three years,” said Spokesman of MoRRD …
Read More »Five border police killed in Kunar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five border police officers were killed in a clash with insurgents in the Marawari district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Sunday. Jummah Gul Hemat, provincial police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the fierce clash took place in the Ghash Pas area on Saturday. …
Read More »Political party condemns US “military invasion” in Afghanistan
AT News Report-KABUL: Members of the Afghanistan Solidarity Party, a political institution launched a demonstration Friday to condemn what they called “the US military invasion” in Afghanistan. On October 7, 2001, the US military started aerial attacks in Kabul and other cities that caused the ouster of the Taliban rule. …
Read More »Ongoing operation: 88 Taliban insurgents killed in Kunduz
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 88 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 78 others received injures in the ongoing military operation carried out by the Afghan National Defense, and Security Forces in Imam Sahib district of northern Kunduz province, military officials said on Friday. Operation Pamir-24 kicked off one week …
Read More »Insurgents renounce violence in Nangarhar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A number of the Taliban insurgents and fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist, have renounced violence by joining the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process in eastern Nangarhar province, official said. Officials in the 201st Silab Corps of …
Read More »‘SOM was a successful meeting’
AT News Report-KABUL: Eklil Hakimi, Minister of Finance and Tadamichi Yamamoto, UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan announced the outcomes of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) through a press conference here in Kabul on Friday. Hakimi congratulated the successful meeting to the people Afghanistan and said: “The bilateral commitments of the …
Read More »Conflict in Uruzgan leaves 80 schools closed
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 80 schools have been shut down due to recent conflict in central Uruzgan province, leaving student in uncertainty situation as thousands of them are deprived of going to schools, official said. Mohammad Nazir Kharoti, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the year-long conflict in …
Read More »2017 Senior Officials Meeting: Afghanistan, international community take stock of progress one year after Brussels Conference
AT News Report: KABUL-The Government of Afghanistan, the international community and representatives from Afghanistan’s civil society and private sector met on Thursday to discuss progress and achievements in Afghanistan’s reform agenda, and to reaffirm their partnership and commitment to the country’s long-term development. President Ashraf Ghani officially opened the 2017 …
Read More »‘43 insurgents killed in raids’
AT News Report-KABUL: At least 43 militants have been killed and 16 others received injures in different crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security forces said on Friday. These operations from ground-and-air, were launched in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Parwan, Paktia, Paktika, …
Read More »Brazen violation of international law; EU forcibly returns Afghan asylum-seekers
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Amnesty International (AI) said the increasing force return of Afghan asylum-seekers by European Union to Afghanistan which it described it as a dangerous country due to worsening security situation, is unlawful and a brazen violation of international law, and must stop immediately as it puts the returnees …
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