AT News KABUL: At least 11 worshippers have “embraced martyrdom” and six others received injuries after armed militants opened fire on them during praying in two mosques in northern Parwan and southern Khost provinces. The terroristic incidents had occurred on Tuesday evening, official said on Wednesday. In continuation of crimes, …
Read More »Iran once again rejects torturing Afghan migrants
AT News KAUBL: Citing the reports of Afghan migrants torturing by the Iranian border guards, Tehran has once again turned down its involvement in the incident, saying that issue has been misrepresented by the Afghan media outlets. A member of the Iran National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani in a telephone …
Read More »Editorial: Work in synergy!
The COVID-19 continues to sweep through the world unabated as the number of coronavirus-related deaths around the world has reached a staggering 324,000, with more than five million individuals being infected with the disease. So far the US has been the worst-hit country in the world where 1.55 million individuals …
Read More »Coronavirus cases surge past 8k in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday said that it has recorded 492 new covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 8,145 across the country. Kabul has once again hit worse with 262 new cases from 1,003 samples that had been tested during this …
Read More »Khalilzad in Kabul to re-start quest for peace with Taliban
AT News KABUL: Days after a political reconciliation between Afghan leaders, the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, has arrived in Kabul to resume his formal quest and negotiations to seek peace with the armed group of Taliban, seeking to reconcile the militants with the central government of Afghanistan. An official …
Read More »Water Governance from Neo-realist to Institutionalist Perspectives
By NAJIBULLAH LOODIN Under the neo-realist theory, water conflicts have been broadly covered by media around the world (Julien, 2012). Titles such as “It’ll cause a water war: division run deep as filling of Nile Dam nears”; Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their …
Read More »Afghan Gov Should Press for Nation Building, Rally People Around National Agenda
By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA Now that political reconciliation was reached between President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah by signing a power-sharing agreement on 17 May 2020, the Government should step up efforts to prepare a comprehensive, multi-faceted National Agenda, rally people around it and prioritize long due tasks …
Read More »China pledges $2B for coronavirus response as US hints at halting WHO funding
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: China has pledged to provide two billion US dollars to the World Health Organization (WHO) to help fight covid-19 while the US has threatened to cut funding to the Organization and revoke its membership if the group doesn’t make change in its system. US President Donald …
Read More »Addicted father sells baby daughter to survive
AT News KABUL: An addicted father from the northern province of Takhar has sold his 7 year old daughter to survive. Zuhra’s mother who has divorced from his husband has five children. She says her husband is a drug addict and that was the motive for her to get divorced. …
Read More »Drumhead court-martials on the rise in Ghor
AT News KABUL: Sessions of the drumhead court-martials is increasing in the central province of Ghor, in which, people accused of crimes are sentenced by local clerics, tribal elders or influential figures while no government officials are present. The elders’ councils are influential in the remote areas since several decades. …
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