AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Afghan government is pursuing Indonesia’s support to attain gender equality and sustainable peace in the country. “Quality and effectiveness are indicators of sustainability. When you get quality assistance, nothing can destroy it,” Afghan Minister of Information and Culture Hasina Safi remarked during the opening …
Read More »Ghani criticized for Trump meeting in US base
AT News KABUL: Lawmakers slammed President Ashraf Ghani for going to the US military base out of Kabul to meet the country’s president Donald Trump, calling it an “insult to all Afghans”. Trump landed at the Bagram air base in a sudden visit to Afghanistan on Thursday where he attended …
Read More »Editorial: Two steps forward one step back
Indeed, the Afghan masses have become fed up with the ongoing deadly war. They are bearing the brunt of this imposed war for many years. To end this, the Afghans are hopeful that a peace deal between the Taliban and the U.S. will bring them a step closer to the …
Read More »Roadside bomb blast kills 15 civilians in Kunduz
AT News KABUL: At least 15 civilians, all of them guests of a wedding party, were killed and two more were injured on Wednesday afternoon in northeastern Kunduz province, after their car, they were travelling in, was hit by a roadside bomb planted by the militants. The incident occurred at …
Read More »IEC to unveil preliminary result soon sans vote recount in 7 provinces
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) authorities on Wednesday said that it would soon announce the preliminary results of the presidential election without recounting the votes of seven problematic provinces. The vote recount and audit process was launched by IEC on November 9 in 34 provinces of …
Read More »Taliban ban polio vaccination in Uruzgan
AT News KABUL: Health officials in central Uruzgan province said that over 70 percent of children who need to receive anti-polio vaccination were disappeared during vaccination campaign due to Taliban’s threats to the organization in the province. The campaign was launched for three days aiming for 50,000 children to be …
Read More »Saleh criticized for his abusive Hazara comments
AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghanis’ first running mate, Amrullah Saleh has earlier claimed that he found out voice messages, in which the Hazaras nations have been insulted and humiliated by some members of “Stability and Partnership” electoral teams, led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. But, some members of the …
Read More »It’s time for ‘Afghan Women’ to hold talks with the Taliban
By Zakia Wardak The government of Afghanistan will meet the Taliban in Beijing, China, for peace talks. This is not the first such international summit — in the past, representatives (in their private capacity) from both sides have met in Qatar, Norway and Russia. But despite all these engagements, little …
Read More »Editorial: What’s the truth of the matter?
About two weeks back, the Guardian newspaper and the TOLONews published an investigative report, quoting the Logar Civil Society Association Head, Musa Mahmoodi, about sexual abuse of male school students in the province. The report had said that 546 boy students of six schools in Logar were sexually misused by a …
Read More »MPs denounce security forces’ meddling in political affairs as ‘a coup’
AT News KABUL: Members of parliament and political analysts condemn interference of security forces in elections and other political affairs as a coup de tat, calling army and police to stay away from political events. Lawmakers said Wednesday that security and defense forces’ responsibilities are to ensure security and defend …
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