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Pakistan’s intensifying crackdown on terrorists is likely to victimize Afghans living there, many of whom could be forced to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan hosts about 1.5 million registered and about one million undocumented Afghans. After the 2014 terrorist attack on the army-run school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people …

India also nods for the third phase of 92 small development projects in Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Sawaraj on Monday in New Delhi. Indian primer reiterated New Delhi’s commitments to help Afghans in building …

AT-KABUL: More than 10,000 refugee children have disappeared after arriving in Europe, the European Union Police Intelligence Unit (Europol) said Monday. The Europol have warned the criminal gangs’ sexual exploitation of these children. The statistics released by the British newspapers said that the children had been missing for 18 to …

Karzai, Abdullah, NATO condemn suicide attack By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 20 people were killed and 32 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vest at the entrance of the Afghanistan National Civil Order Police Headquarters (HQ) in western Kabul on Monday afternoon. In a media statement issued …

KABUL: An explosion, possibly suicide attack, has been reported near to Afghan Border Police HQ in west of Kabul city today afternoon. Eyewitnesses in the area say the explosion took place in front of the Afghan Border Police on the main street in which a number of people have been …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A Taliban commander, Sayed Hashim Hashemi, in a video footage ostensibly to be recorded in Faryab province, accused the Taliban’s new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor of plotting the murder of Mullah Omar. After the death report of Mullah Omar, differences emerged among the Taliban leaders. The group …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah is planned to leave for India today (Sunday) to attend a counterterrorism conference scheduled to be held in Jaipur on Tuesday. An Indian news agency reported that Abdullah will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Asking the government for proactive state policies carried out in collaboration with private sector, the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Saturday said that private sector was facing a variety of challenges in the country. The private sector includes such services as education, health, agriculture, mines …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that the Taliban’s shadow judge and mayor for Darqad district were arrested along with 12 militants in northern Takhar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives managed to arrest the Taliban’s shadow judge, mayor …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) on Saturday said that in collaboration with the Supreme Court it has started registration of marriage and distribution of marriage certificate in order to protect women’s rights. “In order to reduce violence against women, the ministry is taking steps to register all …