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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The security forces have repulsed Taliban’s complex attack on the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province, inflicting Taliban heavy casualties, local officials said on Saturday. However the Taliban claimed that they captured the district. Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, told Pajhwok Afghan News a large number …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Taliban fighters took the control of the strategic district of Khanabad in the northern Kunduz province Saturday after a several-hour clash, said officials. “Taliban launched attacks and captured police headquarters, center of the district and a number of checkpoints in the district today morning,” said Hayatullah Amiri, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai during his visit to India, lauded the recent statement of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding human rights situation in Balochistan. He appreciated Moid’s statement on the human rights situation in Balochistan, saying that India had every right to respond to Pakistan’s …

AT-KABUL: At least 75 Taliban insurgents were killed and 26 others injured in different operations launched by the Afghan security forces within past 24 hours, security officials said on Saturday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that the Afghan National Army with the cooperation …

AT Special Report-KABUL: Afghans will celebrate 97th Independence Day on Thursday with great zeal. However, it also poses some basic questions such as: Are we independent? Where do we stand since independence in 1919? We all know the answers but prefer to dodge ourselves because we are good at running …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan Air Force (AAF) is playing a very significant role in suppressing the anti-government armed elements across the country, a security official said. Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Gen. Dawlat Waziri, said the intentional community is paying more attention toward rehabilitation of the Afghan Air Force. “This …

AT Special Report-KABUL: Afghans, both inside and outside of Afghanistan, celebrated the 97th Independence on Thursday with great zeal. However, we have not pondered what really independence is. Neither we are politically independent nor economically. Even we cannot think independently. The country will become independent when we are free from …

Afghanistan has a high number of the victims by the landmines, roadside bombs and other unexploded explosive devices. The explosives are used by different hostile groups to apparently target their rivals, which usually claim the lives of innocent civilians who take no part in the conflicts. The founder of these …

Afghanistan is in the list of countries that have abundant natural resources. From rare deer species to butterflies and from gold to lithium, there are many things that could help the country to strengthen its economy and stand on its feet. The natural resources could break the begging bowl and …

AT-Kabul: A rocket, fired by militants, hit on Thursday a gathering of people celebrating Independence Day in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province in which at least two people were killed and nearly 50 injured, officials said. At least three mortars were fired by Taliban from the hilltops around the Asadabad city, …