AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Faryab have expressed concerns over the extension of IS-K or so called Daesh’s terrorists activities in the province. Provincial Governor Naqibullah Fayeq said that after the US-Taliban peace deal, the Daesh fighters, who included foreign terrorists as well, have been recruiting fighters and …
Read More »Afghanistan’s coronavirus cases hit over 4K
AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health on Saturday said that it has recorded 253 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 4,033 across Afghanistan. Health Ministry Deputy, Wahidullah Majroh in a press conference said that out of 529 suspected samples, 253 were …
Read More »Afghanistan probes Iran’s mass drowning of Afghan migrants
AT News KABUL: Following the reports of Iranian police cruel treatment with the Afghan migrants, President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a ten-member delegation to investigate the incident and share the details with the people. Ghani’s Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said that the delegation would be led by the Chief of Army …
Read More »Interpol seizes 1,000 Afghan relics
AT News KABUL: The Interpol has seized 971 ancient relics belonging to Afghanistan. The Interpol Secretary General, Jurgen Stock, said Friday that they had totally seized 19,000 relics stolen from different countries, from which, 971 belong to Afghanistan. He called smuggling of ancient and cultural relics part of organized crimes …
Read More »China-based Afghan traders, students assist health facilities
AT News KABUL: The Afghan traders and university students residing and studying in China, have donated medical equipment cost some one million dollars to the ministry of public health, the ministry said. “A number of Afghan traders and students based in China with the cooperation of chamber of trade and …
Read More »Khost police chief killed in bomb blast
AT News KABUL: Sayed Ahmad Babazai, provincial police for Khost was killed along with his three colleagues after a roadside bomb struck his vehicle in the province, interior ministry confirmed. Tareq Aryan, spokesman for the ministry, said Friday that the incident happened in the Nader Shah Kot district, when Babazai …
Read More »Taliban frees 17 prisoners in Herat
AT News KABUL: Giving a lightly stead step to the fragile Afghan peace process, the government and Taliban have been engaged in swapping prisoners on daily bases as part of the US-Taliban peace deal signed on February 29th in Qatari capital Doha. Local officials in western Herat on Friday spoke …
Read More »Talks Plod On To End Leadership Feud
AT News KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and rival Abdullah Abdullah are close to resolving a standoff over last year’s disputed presidential election that has launched the country’s politics to pandemonium. Sources privy to ongoing negotiations between the Afghan leaders allude to the finalization of the talks to end the …
Read More »RSF calls for end to impunity for crimes against journalists
AT News KABUL: The Reporters Without Borders also known as Reporters Sans Frontier (RSF) have voiced concerns over the release of those Taliban prisoners, who have been behind deadly attacks against media workers. The organization said its researches showed that the Taliban have been insisting on the release of a …
Read More »Khalilzad resume his Afghanistan peace quest
Khalilzad met Mullah Bardar in Qatar, discussing humanitarian ceasefire and reduction in violence—fled to India and discussed the US peace and reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan with country’s top official AT News KABUL: US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has resumed has diplomatic mission to succeed the US-Taliban peace …
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