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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Youth Peace Activists on Tuesday urged the government to increase participation of young men and women in promoting peace and countering extremism. They urged the government to implement the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) 2250 resolution and engage youth in decision-making at all levels. Fatema Ehsani, a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Taliban insurgents launched an assault on security check-post, but ultimately failed as security forces killed a large number of Taliban insurgents in tit-for-tat response in Uruzgan province, official said. Afghan security forces repelled and killed scores of Taliban insurgents when they attempted to attack their security chick-post …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President of the Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan has termed the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kabul and his brief stopover in Lahore city of Pakistan as a positive step towards bringing peace in the regional countries. In a press statement …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has seized and torched eight tons of hashish in central Logar province, said officials on Tuesday. The provincial governor’s spokesman Saleem Saleh told Pajhwok Afghan News that the NDS operatives have seized eight tons of hashish in Al-Taimor area on the …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) distributed 55.5 acre of lands among 36 new companies in five industrial parks of Afghanistan. The companies would invest Afs1.1 billion. The agreements were signed by Chief of AISA Mohammad Qurban Haqjo with the owners of the private companies here …

At least 14 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide bomber on a motorbike crashed into the main gate of a government office in the northwest Pakistan town of Mardan, officials said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Pakistan is fighting Taliban and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Chairman of Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said that the cordial ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan would lead to prosperity of Pashtuns straddling on both sides of the Durand Line. Talking to a gathering in Bunir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, Sherpao …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign convoy on the Hamid Karzai International Airport road in Kabul on Monday morning. A civilian was killed and 31 others were injured, said officials. Confirming the suicide attack, Deputy Spokesman of Ministry of Interior, Najeeb Danish, said that a suicide …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani inaugurated newly-built building of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) here on Monday. The ceremony was attended by top military braces, where the president commended the capabilities of Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). He said that Afghan forces were fighting enthusiastically against the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga or the Lower House of Parliament, Zahir Qadir, alleged that the government was backing Daesh. He claimed that the government only targets the Taliban when the insurgent group attacks Deash fighters in Nangarhar. During Monday’s session, he said that …