AT News KabuL: Afghanistan’s tight presidential race is increasingly likely to go to a runoff vote amid thousands of complaints challenging the initial returns that indicated the incumbent president Ashraf Ghani had won the office, according to complaints election authorities. With all the ballots counted including 300,000 controversial ones, state …
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AT News KABUL: National Bureau of Environment Protection has said that the private residential towns and industrial factories, which are lack of standard system, posing air pollution, would be fined 25,000 Afs per week. The Bureau has given nearly one week deadline to the commercial industries and residential towns to …
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AT News KABUL: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission says it would disprove the biometric-based votes if found problematic. The biometric technology was used in the September 28th presidential elections to count vote and all the runners for presidency had agreed to accept the biometric-based polls as valid. Officials in the …
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AT News KABUL: The Attorney General Office (AGO) has assured to seriously investigate the sexual abuse cases against schoolchildren in southeastern Logar province and bring the perpetrators to the justice. Deputy of AGO, Habib Noor Jalal, who led the delegation to investigate the alleged pedophile ring in Logar, said, “Whoever …
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AT News KABUL: At least seven Afghan army soldiers have been killed after Taliban militants attacked their checkpoint in northern Balkh province, ministry of defense said Tuesday. In addition to that six others, including three operatives of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) were received injuries in the Taliban attack …
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AT News KabuL: Almost sixty three percent of schoolgirls aged between 13 and 15 drop out of school in Afghanistan, according to a survey published by a rights watchdog on Tuesday, a revelation that buttresses the argument that education still remains an inaccessible right for 3.7 million of children across the …
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AT News KABUL: The announcement of initial election results is not acceptable and it is a completely disgrace, said members of the Presidential Candidates Council (PCC) on Tuesday in a press briefing, and warned that it could likely unleash new wave of crisis. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday …
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AT News KABUL: In reaction to the recent Taliban’s visit to Pakistan, the Senate Committee in their Tuesday session said the visit was aimed to consult the short-term ceasefire with Inter-Service Intelligence of Pakistan not with their leaderships. Sources privy to Taliban have said that a Taliban delegation compromised of …
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AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an explosion that killed and injured civilians while performing prayers in the eastern province of Laghman. Karzai denounced the attack a “cruel act”. The former president expressed concerns over the continued bombardments, night raids and explosions that inflict casualties on civilians, …
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AT News KABUL: Kabul police have arrested seven people accused different crimes such as bullying, carrying illegal weapons and disrupting of public order. The arrestment made during crackdowns conducted in 13th PD and Dehsabz district of Kabul, the capital city, Kabul Police Press Disk said on Tuesday. Six indicts were …
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