AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The body of physician Tetsu Nakamura, a devoted aid worker who was killed in a shooting four days earlier in Afghanistan, was brought back to Japan on Sunday by members of his family. The 73-year-old Nakamura, an Afghan Japanese origin, and his five Afghan comrades were killed …
Read More »Afghan forces kill 25 Taliban militants in Zabul, Uruzgan
AT News KABUL: At least 25 Taliban insurgents have been killed in separate operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Zabul and Uruzgan provinces, Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday. The statement said at least 14 Taliban were killed in an airstrike conducted in …
Read More »Tamanna gives up presidential race, joins Ghani
AT News KABUL: Presidential candidate, Faramarz Tamanna stopped running for presidency, announcing support to President Ashraf Ghani who is also one of the nearly a dozen of hopefuls. In a joint statement with Ghani’s electoral team, Tamanna asked for the sooner announcement of preliminary results, saying that he was program-centered …
Read More »The New Challenges for NAM in Asia and Beyond
Dr. Rajkumar Singh The current era of post–cold war international order saw various characterisations: unipolar, multipolar and now nopolar. The call for new world order proclamation about the end of history and warning about imminent clash of civilizations had attempted to describe the international scenario during 1990s. In shifting, contemporary …
Read More »Mortal shelling leaves four dead in Faryab
AT News KABUL: Officials in northern Faryab province said Saturday that at least four members of a family including women killed in a mortal firing in Balchiragh district of the province. Karim Yourush, provincial police spokesman said that the incident took place on Friday late evening, where five other civilians …
Read More »Three civilians killed in Wardak drone attack
AT News KABUL: Officials and residents in Wardak province say that three civilians including a woman and a child were killed in an attack launched by drone. The incident took place late Friday in the Sayed Abad district, but did not elaborate who carried out the attack. Representatives from Wardak …
Read More »‘Mother bomb’s impacts on Achin dwellers should be probed’
AT News KABUL: The parliament on Saturday called a fact-finding team should investigate the impacts of the massive ordnance air blast also known as Mother Of All Bombs dropped by the US military on the eastern province of Nangarhar in 2017. The US military announced back at the time that …
Read More »How became so irrelevant
AT News KABUL: The Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) commented on President Ghani’s last week meeting with his American counterpart Donald Trump at a US air base in the Bagram district, saying the event meant flattery to Americans. Trump on his first visit to Afghanistan, met his country’s troops on …
Read More »Delegation by AGO investigates Pedophile ring in Logar
AT News KABUL: After serious criticism by several human rights defender organizations, the Attorney General Office (AGO) said Saturday that its delegation led by one of its top officials has launched investigation over the alleged ring of pedophile in southeastern Logar province. “Efforts will be made to continue our probe …
Read More »US, Europe working hard to set intra-Afghan talks in Germany
AT News KABUL: Sources close to the peace talks say that both Americans and Europeans are working hard to hold the third round of the intra-Afghan negotiations in Germany, an effort after the talks planned to be held in China was postponed for a long time. The sources said Saturday …
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