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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 23 new COVID-19 infections across the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,917 around the country. According to the ministry the new cases …

AT News KABUL: The Center for Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) says they have received and registered more than 100 cases of violence against women journalists in the past one year in 20 provinces. Journalism is a risky job in Afghanistan, but it is believed to be more difficult …

Such attacks have had a devastating impact on Afghanistan’s vulnerable civic space, press freedom, and related democratic rights AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) and 40 other civil society organizations from around the globe, in a letter to the UNSC and UNAMA, highlight the wave of journalists’ killings …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan ministry of education says schoolgirls under the age 12 are not allowed to sing in public ceremonies where men attend. The ministry said in a statement on the social media on Wednesday that reads ban of schoolgirls less than 12 years cannot sing in public …

AT News KABUL: Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, Head of the Negotiation Team of Afghanistan and some members of the negotiation team met with Deborah Lyons, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, in Doha. At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the negotiation team spoke about the recent developments …

AT News KABUL: The statistics department said in a statement on Wednesday that issuing of paper identification cards stopped, encouraging people to apply for electronic ID cards. The statement said that it was for better services and preventing of parallel services and to save customers’ times. “The department does not …

AT News KABUL: Kai Eide, a former UN envoy for Afghanistan says that the European Union would likely oppose the United States’ recent arbitrarily acts in Afghanistan. The veteran Norwegian diplomat said Wednesday that the United States was not allowed to do whatever they want to in Afghanistan, adding the …

Afghan journalists and professional media workers have been subjected to unprecedented levels of attacks. Twelve journalists have been killed and many more have been targeted in just four months. Last year, 2020 was the deadly year for them, and the beginning of 2021 is already proved deadly. Today the climate …

Yesterday (9th of March) was the first anniversary of the incumbent government under President Ashraf Ghani’s leadership. It was not an easy day. Some rockets landed at the outskirts of Presidential Palace. It was also not an easy inaugural ceremony as his main rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah was also busy …

AT News KABUL: A militia commander, Abdul Ghani Alipur has purportedly engaged in a deal with the Taliban group, authorities said on Tuesday. Bamiyan Governor Sayed Anwar Rahmati said that there are reports about Alipur’s engagement in an agreement with the Taliban. He cited the remarks in a ceremony held …