AT News KABUL: One person was killed and two more injured when a magnetic bomb attached to a vehicle carrying Central Bank’s staff exploded Sunday in Kabul city, police officials confirmed. The incident happened Sunday morning in the Shah Shahid neighborhood Police District 8 when the personnel were going to …
Read More »Lemon Harvest Reaches to 6k Tons in Nangarhar: Officials
AT News KABUL: Lemon yield has increased to six tons in eastern Nangarhar province this year, officials said on Sunday. Around 2,500 acres of lands are lemon gardens in the district and Jalalabad city of the province, and the harvest has reached 5,900 tons this year, Nangarhar Press Office said …
Read More »COVID-19: 77 New Infections, Eight Deaths Reported in a Single Day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 77 new positive cases of coronavirus and eight fatalities in the past 24 hours across the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Sunday. The total tally since the outbreak of the virus has now stands to 54,672 across the country. The news cases …
Read More »Andarabi Blames Taliban for Growing Violence, Targeted Killings
AT News KABUL: The Interior Minister, Mohammad Massoud Andarabi has blamed Taliban for the continued uptick in violence and carrying out targeted killings of civil society activists and journalists across the country. According to Andarabi, who spoke with foreign media outlets, the Taliban deliberately delayed the peace process and waited …
Read More »Kabul Urges Islamabad to Press Taliban ‘Reduce Violence’
Surge in targeted killings and relentless violence across Afghanistan is a new challenge on the path to peace, Foreign Ministry says AT News KABUL: The foreign ministry has called on Pakistan to push the Taliban to fulfill its commitments of reduction in violence and cut ties with the “terrorist groups” …
Read More »Editorial: Peace, All Time Priority
Indeed, it’s a good move that the Biden administration has decided to review the Trump dispensation’s peace deal with the Taliban. This comes to check whether the Taliban are honest in the meaningful talks and are also ready to cut ties with other groups, including the al-Qaeda terrorist network. It …
Read More »28 Taliban Rebels Killed in Latest Military Stings
AT News KABUL: At least 28 Taliban militants have been killed and four others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces within the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Saturday. Taliban insurgents were planning to attack Afghan National Defense and Security …
Read More »Taliban Reluctant to Reduce Violence, Abdullah Laments
Abdullah says Taliban have intensified violence and targeted-killings AT News KABUL: Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah said Saturday that the Taliban was reluctant to reduce violence in the wake of the second round of the intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha of Qatar. Talking in the inauguration …
Read More »Biden intends to Keep Zalmay Khalilzad in Place for Now
Khalilzad is a diplomatic veteran, having served as a US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations – he is well known in foreign policy circles AT News KABUL: The Biden administration is keeping former President Trump’s top envoy for Afghanistan peace talks, who has led regular negotiations with the …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 36 Covid-19 Infections, Five Deaths
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan recorded 36 new cases of Covid-19 and 5 fatties within the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to over 54,595. The new cases were recorded out of 882-suspected samples tested in the country laboratories, the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The cases …
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