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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Taliban fighters are sending their families under the names of refugees returning home, the interior ministry said Sunday. “We are worried about such conspiracies, plans and we try to prevent Taliban families from entering the country under the names to refugees,” said the ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Masherano Jirga or the Upper House of the Parliament approved the draft of the next Afghan year’s budget in the general session on Sunday. They senators approved the budget with some recommendations aimed at balancing development projects across the country. According to the finance ministry, 287 …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government on Sunday stepped up to provide food and shelter suppliers to the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) after five people including two babies died in the Darzab district of the northern Jawzjan province. Provincial deputy governor, Abdul Rahman Mahmoodi, said many of the families fled to …

AT-KABUL: At least 30 Taliban insurgents including a commander were killed and 17 others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Sunday. The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate …

AT-KABUL: Representatives of Pashtuns submitted a petition “Pashtunistan” at the United Nations office in Geneva, seeking international support for liberation and self-determination. Pashtuns, most of them escaped into exile after fearing persecution, submitted the petition on Friday at the UN in Geneva calling for support of the democratic and civilized …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif met Saturday on the sidelines of an international conference in Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan, a media report said. The leaders of the two neighboring states discussed the already tense bilateral relations and also the regionals issues. …

Officials termed smuggling of fuel and fixing of prices by private sector as the main factor behind high prices and low quality of fuel and gas in the market By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament on Saturday summoned commerce minister, National Standard Authority and Fuel and …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai expressed his deep grief over the demise of Fidel Castro, former leader and president of Cuba, who passed away at the age of 90 due to an illness he was suffering from. “Fidel Castro was one of the pioneers of the non-aligned movement and was …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Saturday condemned in the strongest possible terms the Daesh terrorist attack against the Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, in which nearly 100 were killed and scores of others injured. A truck bomb Thursday ripped through a gas station, where buses packed with Shiite pilgrims returning …

AT-KABUL: At least 11 Taliban insurgents including five Daesh terrorists were killed and four others wounded in different clearance operations launched by security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, security officials said Saturday. In a statement, the ministry of interior said the operations were conducted late Friday in different areas of …