AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has become the top ranking word for Google’s Year in Search after the Taliban’s rise to power, followed by the devastating evacuations. When searching for news, Google users were mostly interested in Afghanistan, according to the latest annual trending report of Alphabet Inc.’s search giant. The …
Read More »Taliban destroy border fence along Pakistan border
AT News KABUL: After Pakistan’s missile strikes on eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban destroyed the border fence erected by the Islamabad government in the first border clash with the Pakistani military. Tasnim news agency reported that Taliban special forces destroyed the border fence Pakistani military had built along the Durand Line …
Read More »Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai slams Pakistani ‘propaganda’ on Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday lashed out at Pakistan and called out what he said was “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech at the summit of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), said that Pakistan faced threat from Islamic State …
Read More »Turkey mulls operating 5 airports in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Turkey is considering to jointly operating five airports in Afghanistan with Qatar after talks in Doha and Kabul, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Monday. Speaking in a joint news conference with Malaysian Counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah, Çavuşoğlu said a delegation consisting of experts will travel to Doha, …
Read More »Work on Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan railway to resume
AT News KABUL: Uzbekistan has pledged to start work on the railway that connects Tashkent to Afghanistan and Islamabad early next year, according to the Taliban. The Ministry of Finance said that the acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, met with Uzbekistan’s minister for transport, Makhkamov Ilkhom, on the sidelines …
Read More »Markets still mired with high prices
AT News KABUL: Prices of essential food and fuel items remain high in Afghanistan markets even after the country’s currency recovered after it dived to a record low of 30 percent against the US dollar earlier this month. The value of afghani currency had dropped drastically, mostly driven by an …
Read More »Russia urges Taliban to ‘ensure inclusiveness’
AT News KABUL: The Taliban will risk losing power in Afghanistan if an inclusive government is not formed, Russian special envoy Zamir Kabulov told Sputnik on Friday. “Ethnic political inclusiveness is needed. They might lose power in the near future if they keep acting like that. They will have to …
Read More »Pentagon downplayed civilian death toll in Afghanistan airstrikes
AT News KABUL: A US media report has revealed that US airstrikes conducted with imprecise targeting and “deeply flawed intelligence killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. The New York Times reported that the civilian death toll was a lot higher than the 188 deaths reported in Afghanistan and the …
Read More »India, Central Asian nations call for aid to Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Sunday sought cooperation of Central Asian nations to help provide aid to Afghanistan and ensure the Taliban form an inclusive and representative government in the country. At the third India-Central Asia Dialogue on Sunday, India and five Central Asian countries called …
Read More »Karzai condemns Imran Khan’s ‘divisive’ remarks
AT News KABUL: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday lashed out at Pakistani Prime Minister for attempting an “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech at the summit of Organization of Islamic Countries on Sunday in Islamabad said that Pakistan faced threat from Islamic …
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