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KABUL: The new Afghanistan government should prosecute officials and commanders whose serious human rights abuses have long gone unpunished, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. In a statement, the HRW said that US officials should press President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to take up justice for past abuses …

On Tuesday the World Wildlife Day was observed across the planet, except Afghanistan, despite the fact that the country provides rich habitat to hundreds of species and where hunting is continued despite ban imposed by the former president Hamid Karzai. The good excuse for the relevant officials to come up …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An official in Da Afghanistan Brishna Sherkat (DABS) said that they were setting up emergency power lines to supply 170 percent electricity to Kabul in next two days. Wahidullah Tawhidi, spokesman for the DABS, said that they were working to set up three emergency power lines to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces have launched a rescue operation in southern Zabul province on Monday night to free the 30 passengers (ethnically Hazaras) who were abducted by unknown armed men more than one week back, said reports on Tuesday. TOLO News quoted a number of sources as saying that …

AT-KABUL: The civil society, aggregate of nongovernmental organizations, has launched relief aid collection campaign to help the avalanches affected people in the country. The one-week campaign was launched on Tuesday in the capital city of Afghanistan where seven camps were set up. Through the camps the civil rights activists would …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 40 senior Afghan diplomats including 11 ambassadors were sacked due to over age and not meeting the norms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said reports on Monday. Pajhwok Afghan News quoted a source as saying that the decision was taken following the meeting …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called on concerned officials to take all necessary measures to resolve the issue of lack of clean potable water in Kabul city. In a meeting with members of City Reform and Development Commission, President Ghani urged the commission to devise a mechanism to provide clean drinking …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior has appointed new police chiefs at all police districts of Kabul. Kabul Police Chief, Abdur Rahman Rahimi, said that following the procedure the new chiefs were assigned for all 16 police districts and different security regiments in Kabul. Speaking at a press conference, the Kabul …

AT-KABUL: The Mobile Mini-Circus for Children (MMCC) and the Afghan Educational Children’s Circus (AECC) established a council for children to convey their problems in better manner to the relevant authorities. As many as 450 children from nine provinces and 10 internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps are part of the council …

AT-KABUL: At least eight civilians were killed and three others injured in two separate roadside bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, provincial police said. The first blast took place in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar, early Monday morning at 8:00am, when students were on way to school. Two …