AT News KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan says there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan. “The solution can only be reached through the negotiation process,” he said. In his address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit on Tuesday, Khan said, “We are supporting efforts to …
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AT News KABUL: Kunduz provincial council says eight members of Afghan forces have been killed in an attack by Taliban insurgents on a checkpoint which transpired in Khanabad district. Kunduz provincial council chairman, Mohammad Yusuf Ayoubi, has said that eight Afghan troops were killed and three others were wounded in …
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AT News KABUL: At least 37 drug runners found guilty of drug trafficking and had sentenced to different terms of prison in the past one week. A statement issued by the Court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said seven drug traffickers were sentenced to two 26 years of incarceration …
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AT News KABUL: The positive cases of coronavirus are on the rise in Afghanistan, putting Afghan people on alert to observe health advice, including putting on masks and observing social distancing. 166 new infections were registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 42,463 cases throughout the …
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Although the artist community tried to stop destruction of the decades-old Cinema Park, the government demolished the building AT News KABUL: The Kabul Municipality has begun destruction of the Park Cinema despite widespread criticism by some Afghan artists, actors and filmmakers. Director of the Afghan Film, a government-run department serving …
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AT News KABUL: At least six people, including five security members, were killed and 20 others received injuries after a vehicle borne explosive device went off near the police headquarter in Almar district of Faryab province on Monday night, provincial officials confirmed Tuesday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Karim Yorish said that …
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AT News KABUL: The operatives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) have killed Mohammad Hanif known as Abdullah, a senior leader of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent. Hanif is from Karachi of Pakistan. The NDS in a statement said on Tuesday that two Pakistani women were also detained in …
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AT News KABUL: Health officials said that at least 300 drug addicts were dismissed from hospital after receiving medical treatment in Ibn-e-Sina, a 1000-bed health facility. This comes as 2.5 million people use drugs; off whom, half a million become addicted, bearing difficult lives. Public Health Minister, Ahmad Javad Osmani …
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AT News KABUL: The Former Chief of Intelligence, Rahmatullah Nabil has said that the outgoing US President Donald Trump’s heterodox policy would “linger on” for a while in Afghanistan. “As a result of mismanagement of his envoy, Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, Afghanistan’s nascent semi-democratic democracy, as well as war and peace …
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Experts believe that U.S. president-elect Joe Biden will be highly likely to not follow on Trump’s footsteps in handling the Taliban, and that there is possibility of far-reaching foreign-policy realignments in Washington towards Afghanistan Seddiq Hussainy KABUL: After Joe Biden defeated his Republican incumbent rival Donald Trump in the high-stakes …
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