AT News KABUL: Police in northeastern Takhar province have arrested three men after they got a 13-year-old girl drunk and raped her. Navidah, a pseudonym, is a 13-year-old girl from a village in Taloqan city. Takhar police spokesman Khalila Asir said the victim child was found in a bash party …
Read More »Media can help lay out roadmap for peace talks
AT News KABUL: Media outlets can play a highly important role in Afghanistan peace talks, helping disseminate information surrounding the negotiations and carving out a roadmap for them. Ministry of Information and Culture in an event emphasized on more roles for Afghan journalists in Doha talks, stressing that the media …
Read More »Gunmen vandalize wedding house on Kabul outskirts
AT News KABUL: A group of four unidentified gunmen attacked and vandalized a wedding house during a ceremony in Kalkan district of northern Kabul province, breaking the instruments of local singers and warning them not to sing anymore. Abdul Ghafoor Popalzai, Kalkan district governor of Kabul province, said the incident …
Read More »Flood victims in dire straits; no aid delivery made
AT News KABUL: A delegation sent to Parwan province to evaluate the food and non-food aid to the flood affected people say that the aid packages have not yet been distributed and are kept in bad condition. The delegation said Wednesday that hundreds of packs of foodstuff and other essentials …
Read More »Commentary; Why should Afghanistan become another Syria?
Paradox in the language of American officials is ruining prospects of peace talks for Afghanistan. The US special representative Zalmay Khalilzad in a brazen speech has said Afghanistan could become another Syria. His attempt was to warn the Afghan government about consequences of downplaying the Taliban in peace negotiations. That …
Read More »Women in Bamyan hit hard by COVID-19 economic crisis
AT News KABUL: Zahra Kazemi, 42, started handicrafts business 17 years ago in Bamyan, a mountainous province in the heart of Afghanistan. Ms. Kazemi now runs a small factory of handicrafts in the province, where 20 women directly and 400 others indirectly work. Ms. Kazemi says her business was very …
Read More »Don’t be afraid, you won’t be wiped out; Taliban told
AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban not to be afraid of a ceasefire, a prerequisite to what the Kabul administration deem it important for trust building measures that gives confidence to the success of the peace talks. “Don’t be afraid of a ceasefire, nobody is going …
Read More »US pushes for a deal that protects rights of all Afghans
AT News KABUL: The US Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson urged a peace settlement that “brings about security and protects the rights of all Afghans.” He cited the remarks in a meeting with head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Shaharzad Akbar. “I discussed our shared concern about …
Read More »Kabul security belts fortified
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Wednesday said it has adopted all efforts to build up security belts across Kabul and its districts. The operation would run by the Afghan National Army’s 111 divisions, the ministry said. Commander of 111 divisions, General Ramin Muqbel said that more soldiers …
Read More »Coronavirus; Afghanistan records 62 fresh cases
AT News KABUL: The coronavirus, a pandemic that in some way contained in Afghanistan, have taken the lives of two Afghans in the past 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry on Wednesday said another 62 Afghans have contracted the virus in this period, bringing the nation tally to 39,548 across …
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