Overwhelming majority in Afghanistan have been made fed up by prolonged wars and hostilities, therefore, they are in favour of reconciliation and patch up with the opposition Taliban. But at the same time, media personnel and politically aware people who believe in human rights are fearing threats to press freedom …
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By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least four people were killed and 10 others were injured when a car bomb exploded Wednesday afternoon in southern Ghazni province. A Taliban suicide bomber who drove an explosive-laden Humvee went off in city’s security belt in 2nd PD of Ghazni at around 1:50pm local …
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AT News Report KABUL: Political leaders and presidential candidates mostly opposition to President Ashraf Ghani, have threatened to block main roads in Kabul city to pressure the president leave office. A council shaped by the presidential hopefuls is said to block the roads if its demand was not met by …
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AT News Report KABUL: Today, May 22, is the last day of the national unity government, an administration formed by the US broker in September 2014 after none of two frontrunners in the president elections (President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah) managed to secure enough votes to prevent …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Convicted of killing an Afghan citizen, a US soldier has been freed from a military correctional facility on Fort Leavenworth in northeastern Kansas As he was released after eight years in prison, US Army National Guard Sgt. Derrick Miller’s mother Renee Myers cried: “Ah, my baby.” …
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AT News Report KABUL: Some two million children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition, while 485,000 pregnant women are deprived from food safety, said the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The UNICEF said Tuesday in a report that it had surveyed children under the age of five, pregnant …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US military needs a new strategy in Afghanistan, where peace cannot be won through bomb and bullets, says a soldier who claims killing Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladin. “That’s a difficult question,” Robert J. O’Neill, former Navy SEAL who claims to have killed bin Laden …
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AT News Report KABUL: Police in northern Sar-e-Pul province detained nine people after allegations that they gang-raped a midwife and a nurse in Aab Khorak Village in Ruyi Du Aab district of the province. Provincial police headquarters of Samangan in a statement said the detained individuals are accused of beating, …
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AT News Report KABUL: A Daesh fighter was killed by his own bomb explosion in eastern Nangarhar province Monday night, official said Tuesday. The Daesh loyalist blown up by his own explosives as he attempted to plant a mine in Shahidan Mina area in Rodat district, Nangarhar Governor Spokesman Attaullah …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Russia’s top security chief is raising alarm about extremist militants massing on Afghanistan’s northern border. Alexander Bortnikov, chief of the main Russian intelligence agency FSB, said on a visit to Tajikistan on Tuesday that some 5,000 fighters of an ISIS extremist group affiliate have gathered in …
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