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AT-KABUL: The culture ministry has started an awareness campaign to prevent the youth from escaping abroad, an official in the ministry said Saturday. “The awareness campaign would be run nationwide through schools, universities, mosques and civil societies to open youth’s minds about threats facing through illegal travelling to abroad,” said …

India most, Pakistan least favorable countries KABUL: A BBG-Gallup survey has found that two-thirds of Afghans say things in their life are worse now than 12 months ago and almost half say they expect things to be even worse a year from now. The survey sought the opinions of Afghan …

LUDHIANA: A 22 member delegation of senior policy makers from Afghanistan, led by Hamid Halmandi, advisor to the president of Afghanistan and accompanied by Mehboobullah Nag, Director Seed Certification, Government of Afghanistan visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) for deliberations on water shed management and seed certification. Also present on the …

Senior Pakhtun nationalist leaders have called for joint efforts to ensure peace and prosperity in the region during the new solar year. The call came at a well-attended function at the Afghan Consulate in Peshawar on Friday, marking the traditional Jashan-i-Nawroz– the new solar year. Awami National Party (ANP) leader …

AT Monitoring Desk-KANDAHAR CITY: Top security official of the southern Kandahar province blames neighboring Pakistan for supporting Taliban insurgents. The provincial police chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq said Friday that Pakistan was previously providing only money and explosives to the insurgents, “but now, they also give heavy weapons to the Afghan …

AT-KABUL: Dismayed by opposition, the controversial supreme commander of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, pleaded with fighters to support him. After becoming commander-in-chief of the insurgent movement in a controversial manner, the Taliban divided into two opposing groups.  One is led by Mullah Mansoor and another by Mullah Rasool. Both …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security personnel had foiled a plot to attack the house of the acting National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Massoud Andarabi, the NDS said in a media statement on Friday. An attacker was shot dead on Friday afternoon before he could enter the house of the NDS …

AT-KABUL: Nai- an organization that support open media in Afghanistan in its annual report said on Thursday that intentional attacks against Afghan journalists increased as in last one year 116 cases of violence against media-men were registered by the watchdog including 12 murders. Out of the 116 cases, 12 murders, …

Taliban aren’t ready to engage directly with Afghan govt, Nicholas Haysom informs UNSC AT-KABUL: Briefing the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, said that during his meeting with the Taliban Political Commission last week he urged the militant group to engage in direct talks with …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least six fighters of the Islamic State also known as Daesh, were killed in a clash with Afghan security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Wednesday. According to the officials, four other Daesh militants were received injuries in the fighting. “Daesh militants attacked some …