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Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The interior minister Noorul Haq Ulomi on Tuesday said that the government would not allow any militant group to challenge writ of the government and destabilize the country. In a joint press conference with the chief of army staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shaheem, the minister said that …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: Government of Italy has granted $2 million for improvement of healthcare services in Afghanistan. The donation will be spent to provide medical equipments, construct diagnosing centers, cancer test laboratories, and improve plastic surgery, physiotherapy and capacity building of health workers. The cooperation agreement in this regard was …

Unidentified elements in Pakistan and Afghanistan are major sources of terrorist financing, says a report by the U.S Treasury Department. “There is evidence that recently some funding via donations has been diverted from Afghanistan and Pakistan to terrorist groups operating in Syria,” claims a similar report by the British government. …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health set alight around 60 tons of low quality and expired medicines in Butkhak district of Kabul province on Tuesday. The medicines were collected from drugs importing companies, wholesalers and different stores in the outskirt of Kabul city in a bid to improve healthcare services …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government said that 200 students of the Nangarhar University had links with the Taliban, Daesh and Hekmatyar-led Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan. Leading a delegation to probe support for the militant groups by the Nangarhar varsity students, the presidential advisor Qamaruddin Shenwari told BBC that the university students who …

AT-PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the district administration has sealed the Imam Ghazali Medical University in Peshawar. Facing uncertain future, the Afghan students asked the provincial government to reopen the university. Afghan students during a news conference in Peshawar said that their …

In a rare show of cooperation, the Afghan Taliban have allowed the government to reopen schools in territories it overran after bloody battles earlier this year. Afghan officials say they have struck an informal agreement with Taliban insurgents to reopen 51 schools in two districts of Helmand Province in southern …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Afghanistan and Pakistan opened important day-long talks on trade and economic issues on Monday. Due to tensions between the two countries over Taliban’s increasing terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, meeting of Afghan-Pak joint economic commission in August was canceled. “The issues to be discussed in the meeting include …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Resumption of peace talks would be of no use, unless Pakistan target militants on its soil, said the deputy spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani. Sayed Zafar Hashemi told Radio Azadi that Kabul would be ready for resumption of talks with the Taliban militants, only if Pakistan takes …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Central Statistics Organization (CSO) with financial support of the UNICEF launched a new mobile application called “Afghan Info” here on Monday in order to provide information of different governmental organizations to smart-phone users. This is the first time that Afghans can access the Central Statistics …