AT News KABUL: November was called as the deadliest month in Kabul since January with 15 terrorist attacks killing and injuring dozens of civilians and security forces, according to interior ministry. Tareq Aryan, interior ministry spokesman, said Wednesday that the attacks were carried out by different terrorist networks. “A car …
Read More »Former Pakistan ISI Chief: We Can Only Persuade Taliban to Negotiations
AT News KABUL: Assad Dorrani, an ex-chief of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), says that Islamabad could just persuade Taliban militants to sit with Afghan representatives for the peace talks. He says that Pakistan could not do anything more. Dorrani’s statement is an effort to deny his country’s influence …
Read More »Editorial: Convivial justice
Condemning the crimes that inflicted casualties on innocent Afghans is not the only way to the justice and fairness, but indeed, it needs the true acts of prosecution of those committed such crimes for sake of justice. A bombshell report revealed that the Australian Special Forces in the southern part …
Read More »26 Taliban insurgents killed in fresh ops
By Rafiullah Anwari KABUL: At least 26 Taliban rebels were killed and 11 others were wounded during latest crackdowns conducted in southern Uruzgan and northern Samangan provinces, defense ministry said on Tuesday. 19 Taliban insurgents were killed during preemptive operations carried out by Afghan National Army (ANA) in Dehrawood district …
Read More »Abdullah scorned for his failure to form reconciliation council
‘Stop traveling around – determining reconciliation council is important for national consensus on the peace’ AT News KABUL: Political analysts hardly criticize Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the reconciliation council for getting busy in overseas tours and not finalizing the shape of the council. The analysts said Tuesday that Abdullah …
Read More »Chinese embassy says Australia ‘misread’ social media post
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: China’s embassy in Australia said politicians there had “misread” a tweet showing a digitally-altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and were trying to stoke nationalism. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called the tweet …
Read More »Afghanistan records 219 new infections, 21 deaths in a single day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 219 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 46,717 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Tuesday. These cases come positive out of 1,650 suspected samples – 88 positive cases were recorded in …
Read More »Doha Peace Process: Discussion on main agenda starts soon: Sources
AT News KABUL: Sources close to the ongoing peace negotiations for Afghanistan, say that the Afghan and Taliban delegations are to start talking on agenda for the main negotiations. The two sides have not recently held meetings, but Qatari officials have tried to provide facilities for them. The sources say …
Read More »Four Taliban involved in target killings arrested
By Rafiullah Anwari KABUL: Four Taliban militants, who were behind target killing and placing sticky mines were detained by Afghan security forces during operation in Kabul, defense official said Tuesday. These Taliban rebels were arrested during a crackdown carried out by Afghan Army forces in Paghman district on Monday night, …
Read More »Coronavirus hampers HIV treatment in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The coronavirus pandemic has hampered treatment of the HIV/AIDS patients in Afghanistan, the ministry of public health says. An HIV patient, who spoke anonymously, said Tuesday that he felt the illness some five years ago and the doctors confirmed that he was infected by the disease. “I …
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