AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Traders in northern Kunduz province have said a number of commercial companies at the Sher Khan port have been declined from 145 to only eight due to bad security situation. They warned that all companies may halt its activities at the port if the security situation …
Read More »IEC confirms cyberattacks on its main server
AT News Report KABUL: A member of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has said that the cyber-security of IEC’s data center has been enhanced in order to counter any threat of cyber-attacks. Mohammad Hanif Danishyar, a member of the IEC told Ariana News that two German experts from Dermalog, a …
Read More »Editorial: Ownership dispute
Based on recent reports, Pakistani police have evicted 180 Afghans while beating them from a market located in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Afghans, who had been in possession of the outlets for decades, were evicted supposedly in compliance with a verdict of the Peshawar High Court (PHC). The Firdous …
Read More »Baghlan residents protest civilian casualties
AT News Report KABUL: Residents in the eastern province of Laghman the other day have took out to the streets to give vent to their anger over killing of at least three civilians in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces. Residents claimed that the operation was carried out …
Read More »Afghanistan-Azerbaijan trade turnover up by over 20pc
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Economic relations between Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are developing dynamically, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said at the opening of a trade exhibition promoting Afghan products, Trend has reported. According to the minister, Afghanistan – Azerbaijan trade turnover increased by 30 percent in 2018, and by 23 percent …
Read More »6 Daesh rebels killed in Nangarhar airstrike
AT News Report KABUL: Six Daesh rebels were killed in a US drone strike in the Pachir Agam district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. Provincial Governor Spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News the drone strike happened in the Sulaimankhel locality on Thursday night in which …
Read More »IEC computer system inactive for past week
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says that its computer system that is linked to the biometric has been inactive for the past one week. A German computer company responsible for technical issues of the election commission’s computer system, has sent experts for the solution, but an …
Read More »Editorial: Fraud bedevil Afghan election
Despite pulling off a safer presidential election than expected, Afghanistan’s 28th polls are scrambling with legitimacy issue due to low turnout, in which the two front-runners already claimed victory before ballots are tallied and signaling they would not accept defeat. Election officials have hailed the recent election as the “most …
Read More »IEC calls for Germany’s help to solve computer problems
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says experts from the German company of DERMALOG have been called to come to Kabul for resolving of problems affected its computer system that was hacked earlier. According to reports, Indian hackers broke the commission’s computers benefiting a certain presidential candidate …
Read More »Editorial: A long way to go
The right of access to information is essentially the lifeblood of an informed citizenry because otherwise, in the absence of information, people remain in dark and unaware regarding their government’s performance. Afghanistan has made considerable progress since the Access to Information (ATI) Law was approved by the president in 2014 …
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