AT News KABUL: Kabul Police has arrested 70 people on the charge of different crimes in the past 20 days. The arrestment made after several crackdowns conducted by police against criminals in Kabul and its district, Kabul Police Press Disk said on Saturday in a statement. Three criminals were killed …
Read More »Soleimani’s death will spawn regional instability: Karzai
AT News Kabul: Former President Hamid Karzai on Friday severely reacted to the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in a US airstrike in Iraq and harshly condemned the move. A statement from Karzai’s office described the attack as a clear violation of international …
Read More »Soleiman’s death will increase tensions in region
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s former spy agency head and a 2019 Presidential candidate, Rahmatullah Nabil said the killing of General Qasim Soleimani will increase tension in the region, and Afghanistan should be kept away from these tensions, otherwise, in current circumstance will add to the fragility of the situation in …
Read More »Initial presidential poll results may change: IECC
AT News KABUL: There is possibility of change in the preliminary presidential election results once our investigation being completed, said an official of Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC). Our employs facing problem in the line of their duty in provinces, said Chaman Shah Etemadi, head of the secretariat of the …
Read More »Editorial: Don’t take it upon yourselves!
As the political situation in Afghanistan is day by day degenerating into crisis, the powerful countries take it upon themselves to recommend ideas for Afghanistan’s future dispensation, which is something very important because of its effects on future events in the country. The preliminary election results have been seriously under …
Read More »‘UN, U.S. interfere in Afghan elections’
KABUL: The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) has convened a roundtable discussion on the UN’s engagement in Afghanistan under the title “Assessing the UN Activities in Afghanistan,” where speakers evaluated the UN’s work in the country over the past four decades, particularly since 2001, after the Bonn Conference on …
Read More »Security forces repel Taliban attack, kill 8 rebels
AT News KABUL: Afghan security forces have killed at least eight fighters affiliated with the Taliban group on Friday when the Taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in northern Kunduz province. Provincial governor spokesman, Esmatullah Muradi said that offensive was triggered when a group of Taliban militants launched an attack on …
Read More »Khalilzad poised to confer on violence reduction with Taliban
AT News KABUL: US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, is going to visit Doha later this week, where he will hold talks with Qatar-based Taliban members to check whether the group is ready to reduce violence in Afghanistan, a media report said on Friday. The visit will also clear …
Read More »HPC in limbo after validation of State Ministry for Peace
AT News KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) on Friday voiced concern over the recent validation of the State Ministry for Peace (SMP), saying that as a result of this move, the council’s employees were facing an uncertain fate. Last week, the Afghanistan parliament endorsed the presidential decree regarding the …
Read More »Taliban kills 2,219 civilians in 2019
AT News KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have killed 2,219 civilians and wounded 5,172 others in 2019, the ministry of interior said on Friday. The casualties came as a result of suicide bombings, guerrilla attacks, land mines and armed attacks, the ministry added in a statement. The ministry has reaffirmed its …
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