AT News KABUL: Relatives of those members of parliament who rejected the budget draft offered by the government for the second time, have been fired from their jobs in government offices, the legislators claim, calling it a way to pressure them to approve the budget. Parliament Speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani, …
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AT News KABUL: The parliament announced Monday of appointing a team to make a plan for speeding up the ongoing efforts for peace, criticizing continuous violence and the probable increase of war in spring. Members of parliament said in their Monday session that people lose their loved ones on daily …
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AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani in a meeting with the chairman of reconciliation council Abdullah Abdullah, emphasized on an immediate ceasefire in the ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban. Presidential office said Monday in a statement that the meeting took place in Ghani’s office where his two deputies and …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has called on the Afghan officials to evaluate and strengthen the control systems at air and land ports to prevent smuggling of cash, artifacts, gold and precious stones out of the country. SIGAR, in its January 14 report, …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 78 new positive cases of coronavirus and four fatalities in the past 24 hours throughout the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Monday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 54,750 cases in the country. The news cases …
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AT News KABUL: Kabul Police has arrested 28 people on the charge of different crimes during the latest crackdown carried out across the city in the past 48 hours. The police have succeeded to capture 28 people accused of armed robbery, killing, selling drug, disrupt of public order, plundering and stealing …
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24 January is considered and celebrated as International Education Day. As per UNESCO data, around 258 million children are out of school, 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math around the globe. On December 3, 2018, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution by …
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AT News KABUL: At least 60 Taliban rebels have been killed and 32 others were wounded during operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours, defense officials said Monday. Taliban planned to attack Afghan forces checkpoints in Arghandab and Zherai districts of southern Kandahar, which …
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AT News KABUL: The Afghan negotiating team held talks with the chairman of Muhammadiyah Ulema Organization and former Vice President of Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla in Qatari capital of Doha. The Afghan negotiating team said in a tweet that Kalla said that the continuation of violence in an Islamic society raises …
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AT News KABUL: Unidentified armed men have shot dead a religious cleric in Sayed Khel district of central Parwan province, authority said Monday. Provincial Police Chief, Mohammad Sadeq Hashimi named the Imam as Abdul Raqib, saying that he was targeted after the performance of evening prayers on Sunday. A doctor …
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