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Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai urges India to treat all minorities including Muslims equally. India should treat all Afghans equally, former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said, taking exception to the stipulation in the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, that only Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from that country …

AT News KABAUL: At least three Taliban militants, who gunned downed six members of a family in Andkhoy district of northern Faryab province, have been shot dead by the Afghan security forces, local officials confirmed on Monday. Provincial Police Spokesman, Abdul Karim Yorush said the militants have been killed in …

A watchdog has alleged that the government has perpetrated almost half of the violence against journalists in 2019 – including intimidation, beating and temporary detentions – while utterly flying in the face of the establishment’s stern claims about protecting journalists. The findings of a media advocacy group named Journalists’ Safety …

AT News KABUL: At least 18 Taliban militants have been killed and six others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

AT News KABUL: Taliban have ordered all the medical facilities in Paktia province to buy and use Pakistan-made medicines, if no, the militants warned to close the facilities. Fazl Rahman Mangal, head of Hewad Hospital, a private facility in the province, said Sunday that the insurgents have also ordered them …

Controversy surrounds paradoxical statements of the duo election commissions AT News KABUL: Tempers are running high as post-election dispute is hitting full tilt amid a ratcheting up of pressure on both the election commissions to bring affairs under control and a recent resurfacing of paradoxical statements of both the panels …

By Aisha Khurram We have always been fascinated by dreams, dreams of having a better world, without evil and hatred, where everyone has a place, where there are plenty of opportunities for development and growth, a world where there’s food to eat, air to breath and place to sleep for …

By Masom Jan Masomy Since the National Unity Government (NUG) consisted under Mohammad Ashraf Ghani presidency in 2014, the Afghanistan’s war goes up the highest peak. Taliban increased its control over the vast land of Afghanistan, where the war extended to larger cities, collapsed some of them by Taliban. Kunduz …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s message to his Afghan counterpart Idrees Zaman on occasion of 65th anniversary of establishment of Sino-Afghan diplomatic relations “His Excellency Mr. Idrees Zaman Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Your Excellency, As the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of …

The topic of inking a US-Taliban peace deal is in full swing and the prospects of it seems relatively high considering the progress made so far. The Taliban describe the only issue that needs to be sorted out now is the ‘date’ to sign the peace agreement. It’s even hinted …