AT News KABUL: Just one year after the Coronavirus pandemic in the country, the government of Afghanistan started vaccination drive on Tuesday. The campaign began after India donated 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan which will be enough for 250,000 people. President Ashraf Ghani said at the beginning of …
Read More »Peace Talks Resume in ‘Cordial Atmosphere’
AT News KABUL: The Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams have agreed to resume talks on peace after more than one month delay that the militant group did not want to meet the Afghan team in the Persian Gulf’s Arab State of Qatar. The two teams sat behind the table in …
Read More »Atmar to Visit Moscow to Muster Support for Afghan Peace Process
AT News KABUL: Foreign Minister, Hanif Atmar is scheduled to travel to the Russian capital of Moscow today (Wednesday) with the aim of attracting regional consensus on the Afghan peace efforts. “The ministry of foreign affairs will chair a delegation in Moscow visit where he is to meet Russia’s high-level …
Read More »Civilian Casualties Surges Since Peace Talks Began: UN
UNAMA documented more than 3,000 civilians killed in a single year, with Afghanistan remaining among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian AT News KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan have escalated sharply since peace talks between the Afghan and the Taliban peace teams began last year, the …
Read More »Taliban Recruitment In-Charge Arrested in Kabul
AT News KABUL: The recruitment in-charge of the Taliban was arrested during an operation carried out by the Special Forces in Kabul, officials said on Tuesday. “Police Special Forces conducted an operation in 9th PD of Kabul and succeeded in arresting a Taliban recruitment In-charge, the Ministry of Interior said …
Read More »Editorial: Peace is all priority
With deadly violence spiking around the country, a slight hope has once again emerged for its de-escalation or hopefully for its end as the Afghan and Taliban peace teams have returned to the negotiation table. The resumption of talks after a long pause, is taking as a good omen that …
Read More »18 New Infections, 1 Death Reported in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 18 new infections of coronavirus and one death in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health said Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,664 cases around the country. The new cases were recorded out of …
Read More »China Actively Upholds Multilateralism, Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind with Afghanistan
Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The world today is caught between a pandemic of the century and momentous changes never seen in the last one hundred years. Human society is going through the most serious pandemic in the past century, and the world economy is witnessing the worst recession …
Read More »Poppy Cultivation Cause Rising Insecurity in Ghor
AT News KABUL: Officials in the western Ghor province said that drug dealers intentionally seek to deteriorate the security situation in the province in order to pave the ground for drug trafficking. Based on a survey conducted by the National Statistics and Information Authority there is 46 percent increase in …
Read More »Money Exchangers in Kabul End Strike
AT News KABUL: Money exchangers have ended their working strike in Kabul on Monday after meeting President Ashraf Ghani, promised to meet their problems. Presidential Palace Deputy Spokesman, Dawa Khan Minapal said that the money exchangers had met with the President Ghani on Sunday evening, and they were convinced to …
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