AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani thanked Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani for his efforts in persuading the two negotiating teams for observing cease fire in Afghanistan. Ghani’s office said in a statement that the two leaders spoke Saturday in a telephonic conversation which focused on the …
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AT News KABUL: Hafiz Mansour, a member of the Afghan negotiating delegation urging for an interim government, calling it “the only way” to maintain the system in the country. He rejected any other way to end the ongoing war. “We have to go to an interim government if we want …
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AT News KABUL: Taliban’s shadow governor for northern Faryab along with his six guards was killed after their own mine went off in Dawlat district of the province, provincial police official said on Saturday. Mullah Nazem, Taliban’s designated-governor was killed in his own mine blast, Faryab Police said. Police confirmed …
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AT News KABUL: The Supreme Court has sentenced Mohammad Adil, the mastermind of the November 2020 Kabul University that claimed the lives of 22 people, mostly students, to death. In a statement, the Supreme Court said that another four were sentenced to various jail terms on charges of treason, transfer …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban fighters have taken hostage a mini-bus full of passengers in Herat-Torgahndai highway in western Herat province on Saturday morning, local officials confirmed. Provincial Police Media Director, Attiqullah Wassiq said that the bust was heading from Torghondai to the capital city of Herat. Wasiq said that …
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Meanwhile, French Embassy in Kabul condemned attacks on civil society figures and journalists as target the “idea of a free Afghanistan” AT News KABUL: The US Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson has condemned the attack on an Afghan journalist, Besmillah Adel who was shot dead by a number of …
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2020 has been a deadly year for the nascent Afghan media outlets – eight journalists and media workers have lost their lives on the line of duty and 19 others received injuries. The fatalities come out of 112 incidents of violence against journalists. However, rights campaigners have also been targeted …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 120 new positive cases of coronavirus and 11 fatalities in the last 24 hours throughout the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Saturday. The total tally has reached 52,706 cases since the outbreak of the epidemic started in the country nearly one …
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AT News KABUL: At least 50 Taliban rebels, including a key commander of the group were killed and eight others wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Helmand province in the past 24 hours. Ministry of Defense on Saturday said that 50 Taliban fighters, …
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By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA Recent spike in violence has sparked alarm among ordinary Afghan citizens, international community and the United Nations Organization. On 24 December 2020 a prominent women’s rights activist, Farishta Kohistan’s car was sprayed with bullets by unknown gunmen while travelling in her home province Kapisa, which killed …
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