AT News KABUL: Abdullah Adullah, chairman of the high council for national reconciliation says that the government would make no decision against the people’s wills. He said on Tuesday that the government and people of Afghanistan have proved their goodwill for peace, adding that now it was Taliban’s turn to …
Read More »14 rockets hit Kabul on Independence Day
AT News KABUL: 14 rockets crashed in different parts of Kabul city including the presidential compound Tuesday morning while government officials were celebrating the country’s 101st Independence Day. Tareq Aryan, interior ministry spokesman said that the rockets hit mostly residential areas in the police districts of 1, 2, 9 and …
Read More »Intra-Afghan talks only way to end war: Karzai
Former President Hamid Karzai’s message on Independence Day AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai issued a message on the 101st Independence Day. The message reads: Dear fellow Afghans, brothers and sisters! I would like to congratulate the 101st Independence Day of our homeland to all proud men and women …
Read More »Government halts release of Taliban prisoners
AT News KABUL: The Afghan government has suspended the Taliban prisoner release process. The government says it has released some 6,000 Taliban prisoners so far, but the group has not fulfilled its commitments. Apparently, the key reason for the suspension is that the Taliban did not release government hostages held …
Read More »Mortar hits house in Ghazni, kills five
AT News KABUL: Five members of a single family, three women and two children were killed and seven others received injures after a mortar landed in their home in the Andar district of the southern Ghazni province, provincial official said on Tuesday. “The incident took place on Monday night in …
Read More »Editorial: Zealous Afghans celebrating I-Day
A security scare happened in the capital as Afghans celebrated the country’s 101st Independence Day. At least 10, including children and women, were injured as more than a dozen mortar shells slammed into various parts of Kabul on Tuesday morning. Despite some other security incidents across the country, zealous Afghans …
Read More »Afghanistan records 43 new covid-19 cases in past 24 hours
AT News KABUL: The Afghan health ministry on Tuesday said that 43 new covid-19 patients were registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally of virus to 37,719 across the country since the outbreak of the virus started nearly six months ago. Four patients have lost their lives …
Read More »China wants a ‘peaceful’ Afghanistan neighboring
AT News The President of China, Xi Jinping’s letter to President Ghani on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of Afghan Independence: “I would like to extend, on behalf of the Chinese government and people and in my own name, warmest congratulations and best wishes to you and through you …
Read More »Afghan forces kill Daesh chief justice “Abdullah Orakzai”
AT News KABUL: National Directorate of Security (NDS) has announced the killing of Abdullah Orakzai, the chief justice of Islamic State (IS), known as Daesh terrorist group in an operation. Orakzai was leading battles in Nazyan and Achin districts of Nangarhar province, NDS said in a statement on Tuesday. However, …
Read More »Editorial: Filthy games lead nowhere
Even, after the Consultative Loya Jirga called for the release of 400 of the remaining 5,000 Taliban prisoners, the insurgents denied to recognize the government of Afghanistan—in tit for tat, the government said the Taliban are not representing any tribe in the country. This as the Taliban claims to have …
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