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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The presence of local and foreign insurgents in north-eastern Badakhshan province caused huge obstacles against polio vaccination drive as more than hundred children were deprived from polio vaccine, health officials said on Tuesday. Public health official Syed Farooq Nasar told Pajhwok Afghan News a number of local …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation vowed Tuesday it would standardize public transportation system in Kabul and provinces within three years. “People will witness great changes in transportation system in Kabul and provinces,” said transportation minister Mohammadullah Batash. He confirmed challenges in urban and rural transportation …

Afghan children are facing several and severe challenges. They are the most deprived segment of the society. Little attention has been paid to their education. Children healthcare facilities are visible only on government papers, particularly in remote parts of the country. There is no denying that malnutrition and child mortality …

KABUL: Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, said the United States has turned a blind eye to terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghan frontiers. In an interview with Sophie Shevardnadze, a correspondent for the television network RT, the former Afghan president said that Afghanistan is insecure, the Taliban have gained more territory, …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), a state-run electricity structure on Monday released a list revealed that shows government officials, members of parliament and powerful figures have owed AFN3.3 billion for electricity bill only in Kabul. “Governmental offices owed AFN 1.6 billion, factories AFN 783 million and residential …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:A majority of representatives in Wolesi Jirga have demanded disqualification of ministers who were not capable to spend 50 percent budgetary allocation in the ongoing fiscal year. First Deputy Speak, Haji ZahirQadir has chaired Monday’ssession and said that the lawmakers have the responsibility to summon ministers and question …

AT-KABUL: Five passengers died and three wounded after a Toyota car collided with a fuel tanker in the southeastern province of Ghazni, local officials said Sunday. Provincial spokesman Jawid Salangi, said that the accident took place on Ghazni-Kandahar highway in Qarabagh district early morning. He said vehicle collided with a …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Sunday that its operatives arrested at least four members of Jundallah terrorist group, also known as people’s resistance movement of Iranian armed opposition in an operation in the Northern Province of Takhar. “The operation was carried out in the Dasht-e-Qala district as …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghanistan Rescue National Movement (ARNM), a civil structure on Sunday criticized the government leaders and security officials for being inefficient, saying it as main factor behind fall of districts and check posts to Taliban across the country. “Critical state of affairs, fall of districts and checkpoints …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Fifty soldiers were killed and several others went missing over the past two weeks in the ongoing conflict in the southern Helmand province, local officials said Sunday. The provincial governor Hayatullah Hayat said the initial investigations indicate that at least 50 soldiers died in the line of …