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AT News Report KABUL: The Kabul police on Saturday said that 174 suspected criminals were arrested within past ten days. In a press statement issued here, the capital police said the alleged criminals were involved in killing, armed robbery, car lifting, smuggling of weapons and using illegal Subscriber Identity Module …

Facebook has created the ability for users to connect directly to the social network via anonymising “dark web” service Tor. While it was already possible to access Facebook via Tor, the new set-up means all data is encrypted and Tor users are not mistaken for hacked accounts. Users could access …

KABUL: Afghanistan-A beat Pakistan-A by 54 runs in the one-off limited overs match in the Pakistani capital Islamabad as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif watched the friendly. Initially a Twenty20 but later reduced to 15-overs-a-side, the match was played at the Shalimar Ground in Islamabad, …

AT News Report KABUL: Six Taliban militants have been killed as result of a drone strike in Nangarhar province, local officials said Wednesday. Nangarhar Police Spokesman, Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal, said the group was bombed Tuesday evening in Achin district of the province by the US unmanned aerial vehicle. Six militants …

AT News Report KABUL: A new survey of the United Nations and Afghan government has revealed that opium cultivation increased by seven percent in Afghanistan. Poppy was cultivated on 224,000 hectares, mostly in insecure provinces. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with Afghan Ministry of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Following the announcement of Beijing to set up a forum to restart the Afghan-led peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militants, the High Peace Council (HPC) on Wednesday termed this attempt by China as fruitful for the success of peace efforts in Afghanistan. …

AT News Report KABUL: A United Nation Special Rapporteure who recently came to Afghanistan and quested over violence against women, said that despite 13 years of governance, so far different manifestations of violence against women and girls exist in the country and women seriously suffering from insecurity and gender climate …

AT News Report KABUL: Officials of the Nangarhar Provincial Education Directorate on Wednesday said that Taliban has closed 24 schools in the province in the last three days and threatened children not to attend schools. Spokesman of the education directorate Asif Shinwari told Afghanistan Times that the Taliban closed schools …