AT News KABUL: At least nine civilians have been killed in Taliban’s powerful Humvee truck bombing on Monday morning in southern Ghanzi province. It was around 4:00 local time when insurgents carried out bombing targeting a security forces facility near Saqafat Islamic Center in Ghazni city, said provincial governor office …
Read More »Karzai hopes for eternal peace in Afghanistan
“Last Tuesday, eyes of our children that had just opened to this world were shut. Our painful reality can’t get more painful than this,” Karzai AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai said that peace process in Afghanistan should be governed by Afghans to bring an immediate end to war …
Read More »Editorial: An appalling realty
Political calamity has gripped Afghanistan in the shadow of a fatal pandemic – a double whammy eating away at paltry sources of daily livelihoods of millions and eroding their belief in the government. In Afghanistan, prolonged political tensions and power tussle as a result of complicated election always been problematic …
Read More »Herat prison reports 13 cases of coronavirus among inmates
AT News KABUL: At least 13 people have been infected with the deadly Corona virus in a prison in the western province of Herat, officials confirmed. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, a health official in Herat said Sunday that another eight prisoners were suspected to have been infected. He said that these …
Read More »Coronavirus cases surpass 6,664
AT News KABUL: The number of people infected with the Corona virus has been recently increasing in the country, with the ministry of public health saying that 262 new cases were registered across the country in the past 24 hours. It said Sunday in a statement that totally 6,664 people …
Read More »Insurgents kill guards of Logar copper mine
AT News KABUL: The Taliban rebels have attacked checkpoints of security forces – guarding the country’s biggest copper mine in southeastern Logar province – and killed eight guards and wounded five others. Spokesman for the ministry of mines and petroleum, Abdul Qaddir Mustafi said, “It was not the first time, …
Read More »Afghan forces kill 37 Taliban rebels in Paktia
AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 37 Taliban insurgents in southern Paktia province days after Afghan government had ordered them to go to offensive from defense posture that they were since peace deal signed between US and the Taliban in Qatar on February. 68 other …
Read More »Kabul police nabs seven criminals in a day
AT News KABUL: Seven suspected criminals have been arrested in an operation conducted by the police in Kabul, the capital city and its districts in the past 24 hours. The detained culprits are accused of murder, robbery, looting people’s valuable goods, mobile and stealing vehicle plate numbers, Kabul Police Press …
Read More »Thousands stand against Taliban, recapture checkpoints in Faryab
AT News KABUL: Hundreds of residents of northern Faryab province has stood up against the Taliban rebels and had overrun their checkpoints in Shirin-Tagab district of the province. Shirin-Tagab District Governor, Zainullah Zaki said that the residents have seized weapons and ammunition and besieged a big sanctuary of Taliban in …
Read More »Editorial: Fences mended at last
Delaying the inevitable ostensibly only for a few months, the feuding rivals President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah finally signed a power-sharing deal to end their political discord. The arrangement of power-sharing reportedly entails the same components as published by this paper earlier in the form of a draft. Abdullah …
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