AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar on Tuesday called for Iranian effective role in the Afghan peace talks. Atmar made the remarks in a meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan Bahador Aminian. The Afghan foreign minister thanked Iran for its cooperation in bringing peace to Afghanistan, …
Read More »26 Taliban Rebels Killed in Latest Raids
AT News KABUL: At least 26 Taliban militants have been killed and six others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Tuesday. The Afghan Special Forces supported by the Afghan Air Forces (AAF) …
Read More »16m Afghans in need for life-saving assistance
AT News KABUL: United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners in Afghanistan are seeking $1.3 billion to assist almost 16 million people in need of life-saving assistance as a result of decades of conflict, recurrent natural disasters, and the added health and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of …
Read More »Afghan-Pak Role Key in All Affairs
By Mujtaba Qasim The ongoing peace process in Doha is a great opportunity for the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban Movement, all Afghans is very optimistic for its process and negotiation. To be fact that, it is been four decades that Afghanistan is a war-afflicted country and thousands of …
Read More »The Assault in the Heart of Democracy in Washington DC
By Dr. Matin Royeen January 6th, 2021 will be remembered as a dark day in the history books of the United States. On this day, while the United States Congress was in session in order to certify the victory of President-elect Biden, the mobs of protesters breached the security, breaking …
Read More »Editorial: Kabul residents suffer endless blackout
When the international community started pouring billions of dollars as donation to the reconstruction program in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, everybody had hopes and dreams about a future for the war-hit country to be like developed countries in Europe or the ones like South Korea. Electricity power was one of these …
Read More »Peace talks yet to gain progress
AT News KABUL: There is no progress in the negotiations between Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams, sources privy to the issue said Monday. The Afghan delegation insists on cease fire agreement, the sources said. “But the Taliban stress that the ceasefire will be agreed after reaching a breakthrough on the …
Read More »Afghanistan focusing on cease fire in Taliban peace talks
AT News KABUL: The Afghan negotiating team is discussed the unification of the agendas of the intra-Afghan negotiations. “Afghans want and stress on ceasefire,” said Najia Anwari, a spokeswoman for the ministry on Monday. “Cease fire is one of the important wishes of the Afghans.” She said that the negotiating …
Read More »Five million Afghans to receive electronic ID cards next year
AT News KABUL: The National Statistics and Information Authority announced of distribution of five million electronic ID cards in the next Persian Year (March 21, 2021 to March 19, 2022). Ahmad Javed Rasouli, head of the department, told senators in Meshrano Jirga’s Monday session that they had already distributed 1.7 million …
Read More »Two militants killed by own bomb blast
AT News KABUL: Two Taliban militants were killed after a bomb they were planning to explode against civilians went off prematurely in eastern Logar province. Two militants were killed, when their own mine detonated in Mohammad Agha district at around 9:00am on Monday, said Logar Police Spokesman Shahpoor Ahmadzai in …
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