AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded four new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, indicating a sharp decrease in fresh cases. One patient has lost his life battling the virus during the same period of time, said the Ministry of Public Health on Monday. The new cases come …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban group has denied the killing of its leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, saying that such a report is “inaccurate”. A local newspaper quoted some unnamed sources in Quetta state of Pakistan, where the Taliban enjoys safe havens, as saying that “Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, leader of the …
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AT News KABUL: General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov crossed the Oxus River as the last Soviet troop to leave Afghanistan on February 14, 1989 and to end a nine-year of military invasion of Afghanistan. 13,000 of 100,000 Soviet soldiers serving in the Afghan war were killed and 35,000 others wounded and …
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AT News KABUL: The ministry of information and culture says that a large number of people in Afghanistan rely on radio stations as a reliable source of information. Mohammad Sabir Momand, spokesman for the ministry said that more than 270 radio stations were active across Afghanistan. Radio still holds its …
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AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) calls on the government of Afghanistan and Taliban militants to urgently resume the stalled intra-Afghan negotiations. “We call on the two sides’ delegations to return to the negotiation table and we emphasize on the end of war to reduce the …
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AT News KABUL: Defense Ministers of the NATO member countries are planned to meet this weeks to discuss the next part of their mission in Afghanistan, amid escalations in the country. NATO has presently 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan who are busy in training and advising mission to the Afghan army …
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AT News KABUL: A former jihadi leader says that the United States plans to retreat from a peace deal it signed last year with the Taliban militants, under which Washington is committed to withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan by May and end its longest war. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who leads …
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AT News KABUL: Former lawmaker from southern Kandahar province, Lalai Hamidzai who had been detained for allegedly misusing his powers, has been released on bail, Attorney General Office said on Sunday. Mr. Hamidzai was arrested in Kabul Airport on Saturday. According to Jamshid Rasouli, the Spokesman of the Attorney General …
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AT News CHAGHCHARAN: Families and survivors of the army and police servicemen of Ghor province blamed the government for being careless about their conditions as they are scrambling with bad economic order. They gathered in front of the governor office in a protest, asking the government to immediately help them. …
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AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that the Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan was conducted in an irresponsible manner and that “no measure (scheme) was considered about the future”. Marking the 32 anniversary of Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Ghani cited the remarks in a video on Sunday. …
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