AT News KABUL: Kabul, Ashgabat and Islamabad have agreed on a project to transmit power from Turkmenistan to energy-starving Pakistan through Afghanistan, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat has said. Breshna’s advisor Mujtaba Hoshmand speaking about a project touted as TAP for the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power transmission line. The first …
Read More »34 criminals nabbed in Kabul
AT News KABUL: Police arrested 34 people on charge of different crimes during a fresh crackdown carried out in Kabul city and its districts. The Kabul Police had succeeded arresting 34 people accused of murdering, armed robbery, plundering and stealing mobiles of the citizens in 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, …
Read More »Tajikistan to export 150MW of electricity to Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Tajikistan is expecting to normalize its energy exports to Afghanistan with a plan to transmit a whopping 150 megawatts of electrical power, according to the nation’s Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat. Breshna’s advisor, Mujtaba Hoshmand, said on Friday that Tajikistan will be exporting 150 megawatts of electricity to …
Read More »U.S. point man in Doha as talks loom, Taliban reshape negotiating team
AT News KABUL: Taliban are restructuring their negotiating team with new faces in the leadership ranks as crucial intra-Afghan peace negotiations are in the offing after a hectic prisoner exchange ended last week. U.S. Department of State has said special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad headed off to Doha on Friday to …
Read More »Afghanistan sees a slight spike in covid-19 cases with 74 new infections in last 24 hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recovered 74 new positive coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, a slight increase in new infections in the face of complete nix lockdown. With new infections, Afghanistan now has 38,398 confirmed covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the virus started in the country around …
Read More »Afghan troops kill dozens of Taliban militants
AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces in fresh military stings have killed at least 35 Taliban fighters in three different provinces across the country, defense ministry said Sunday. Taliban insurgents had assaulted Afghan security forces checkpoints in Shahwalikot district of southern Kandahar on Saturday night. “The attack was pushed …
Read More »Taliban to announce date of intra-Afghan talks
AT News KABUL: The Taliban say they would “soon” announce the date of peace negotiation with the government of Afghanistan. The talks would be held in Qatar. Suhail Shahin, Taliban’s political spokesman said Saturday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the insurgent group’s head of Qatar-based political office and the negotiating …
Read More »‘Ceasefire’ focal point of Taliban peace talks
AT News KABUL: The government negotiating team will more concentrate on the cease fire in talks with Taliban expected to begin soon. Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the high council for national reconciliation said Saturday that the talks between “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Taliban group” would begin soon after the …
Read More »Taliban shot dead two people in Parwan
AT News KABUL: The Taliban fighters have shot dead two people, including a spy agent of the ministry of interior in Sayed Khail district of central Parwan province, local officials said on Saturday. Provincial Governor’s Spokesman, Wahida Shahkar said that the incident occurred on Saturday morning in Aftash village when …
Read More »Over 30,000 refugees return home from Iran
AT News KABUL: The ministry of refugees and repatriation said that more than 30,000 Afghan refugees have returned home from Iran in the last one year. Ahmad Javid an official at the ministry said that the repatriation of the refugees from Iran has been increased in the recent. “If we …
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