AT News KABUL: The Taliban who had vowed to cut all ties with the international terrorist organizations under a peace deal with the United States, are still holding relations with the al-Qaeda, an Islamist terrorist network responsible for the 09/11 attacks in New York and Washington, President Ghani’s office alleges, …
Read More »Put country first, learn from past mistakes: Khalilzad to Afghan leaders
AT News KABUL: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has said that despite serious challenges, the peace-efforts reached an optimistic state for ending the four decades war in Afghanistan. In a message congratulating the 101st anniversary of Afghanistan’s Independence Day, he said that Afghans want peace and …
Read More »Five people killed in two days Kabul security incidents
AT News KABUL: Authorities said that at least five people were killed and 18 others injured in several security incidents, including the rocket attacks and sticky mine explosion during the past two days in Kabul, the capital city. Kabul Police Spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz told the reporters on Wednesday that two …
Read More »NKB merges with National Bank
AT News KABUL: Authorities at the ministry of finance said that New Kabul Bank (NKB) would be integrated with the National Bank of Afghanistan and the technical and legalization works have been underway. Shamroz Khan Masjidi, a spokesman for the ministry said that the merger of these two banks was …
Read More »Taliban denies meeting govt. representative in Qatar
AT News KABUL: Based on some reports a top government official has flown to Qatar to meet the Taliban representatives to ask them not to discuss the formation of an interim government and not put it on the agenda of the intra-Afghan negotiations. But the Taliban denied meeting them and …
Read More »Editorial: Peace process plateauing out
The Afghan peace process has once again plateaued out after a considerable process until now. It’s become usual that one or another pretext comes up to delay the national undertaking which is of key importance to Afghanistan. The two most problematic hurdles to the launch of intra-Afghan talks so far …
Read More »Afghanistan records 40 new covid-19 cases in last 24 hours
AT News KABUL: With 40 newly infected in the past 24 hours, now Afghanistan officially has 37,759 coronavirus cases since the outbreak of the virus started around six months ago. The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that out of 162 suspected samples, 40 were reported positive. 28 positive …
Read More »Afghan forces kill 31 Taliban rebels in latest military stings
AT News KABUL: At least 31 Taliban insurgents were killed and 28 others wounded in multiple military operations conducted by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country. A group of Taliban planned to attack Afghan security forces checkpoint in Ghazari, Badghisi, Khanaqa and Anbig villages of Khwaja …
Read More »Amani era; golden time of Afghanistan’s foreign policy
By Ehsan KABUL: Even after passing one hundred year from the era of Afghan Champion Ghazi Amanullah Khan, who inherited crown from his father King Habibullah Khan and then succeeded victory on Britain Empire, it seems that his era was one of the golden and astonishing eras of Afghanistan’s foreign …
Read More »Water scarcity is novel challenge in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The foundation of Muhammod Tarzi Think Tank of the Academy of Science of Afghanistan held a meeting to confer the novel challenges of water shortage in Afghanistan. Head of the regional research center of the Academy, Sarwar Ahmadzai said that water management is one of the priorities …
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