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AT News KABUL: De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, a government company providing electricity for the country, said that it would soon transfer 200 megawatt power from the neighboring country, Uzbekistan. The decision made after Tajikistan cut 350 megawatt power agreed officially in a contract between Kabul and Dushanbe. A spokesman for …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and Resolute Support Mission have called on warring parties to reduce violence and halt killing and wounding of the civilians, following the UNAMA’s report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Head of the AIHRC, Shaharzad Akbar termed the high number of civilian …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to complete the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners in the near time. “With this action, we look forward to the start of direct negotiations with the Taliban in a week’s time,” President Ghani said this in his address to the fourth Senior …

AT News KABUL: Two people have lost their lives as a result of magnetic bomb blast ripped through Kabul, the capital city on Tuesday morning, an official said. A magnetic bomb attacked to a police pick-up went off in Badam Bagh area at around 08:00am local time, said police spokesman …

AT News KABUL: Coronavirus figures in both (cases and deaths) have been dropped significantly over the past few weeks in Afghanistan. One patient has lost life battling the virus, the Afghan health ministry said on Tuesday. 160 new cases were tested positive from 416 suspected simples in the last 24 …

By Irfanullah Mateen During Covid-19 pandemic, Afghan government implemented a project of 2 billion Afghanis to distribute bread amongst the poorest. But due to the large scale of corruption and lack of transparency in the project, the needy people didn’t get much benefit out of it. Now, the government wants …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the mountainous province of Ghor in the center of the country say that civilian casualties have increased 35 per cent there since a February peace agreement between the United States and Taliban under which the latter pledged to reduce violence. Aref Shadan, head of the …

AT News KABUL: The United States is not going to totally pull back its soldiers from Afghanistan, says Karim Khorram, a former government official. Khorram said on Monday that if the US wraps up military presence in the country, it would rely very much to the local militia men. He …

AT News  KABUL: The first half of 2020 witnessed fluctuating levels of violence impacting civilians in Afghanistan, with the United Nations documenting 3,458 civilian casualties (1,282 killed and 2,176 injured), according to a new report released on Sunday. While the civilian casualty figures represent a 13 percent decrease as compared …

AT News KABUL: In the wake of the prisoner swap process between the government and Taliban as part of the US-Taliban peace deal, the militants freed a batch of 37 Afghan security forces in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar. The Taliban political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said in a …