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AT Kabul: At least 9 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in north Salang tunnel, local official said on Sunday. The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It is a …

AT Kabul: Around 20,000 people displaced in makeshift camps have been evicted by the Afghan interim government in Badghis province, Afghanistan, in sub-zero temperatures, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reports. “In the midst of another harsh Afghan winter approximately twenty thousand displaced people have been evicted from their homes in …

AT Kabul: Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on December 15, demanded to address the problems of Afghan immigrants and refugees in this country. Agnes Callamard’s letter states that Pakistan does not have national laws to protect refugees and …

AT Kabul: Pakistan has summoned an Afghan diplomat over “unprovoked” artillery fire at their border as tensions have ratcheted up between the two countries in the past several weeks. “Afghan Chargé d’Affaires in Islamabad was called to the foreign ministry and Pakistan’s strong condemnation was conveyed over recent incidents of …

AT Kabul: The UK Defense Ministry announced that it has established an independent statutory inquiry to investigate and report on allegations of wrongdoing by the British Armed Forces in relation to their conduct of deliberate detention operations in Afghanistan. The inquiry will investigate alleged activity during the period mid-2010 to …

AT Kabul: A 4.3 magnitude quake shook southeastern Afghanistan on Friday evening at 11: 12 AM, according to India seismic recording agency. The National Center of Seismology of India has announced that an earthquake with a magnitude of 4 on the Richter scale and a depth of 10 km from …

AT News Kabul: The Afghan local authorities and news sources from Kandahar province are reporting today Thursday that there has been a renewed clash between the Pakistani military and Afghan border forces at the Spin-Boldak border crossing in Kandahar province. The local officials of the in Kandahar say that the …

AT Kabul: Pakistan and Tajikistan leaders discussed regional and international issues and called it important to establish an inclusive government in Afghanistan. During their talks in Islamabad, the leaders of two countries, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Tajikistan’s President Imam Ali Rahman declared in a statement that “In …

AT Kabul: The Ministry of Information and Culture said it has signed contracts with a foreign organization to license the hunting of certain birds. The officials said that the contract is worth around $42 million. “Different contracts worth $42 million were signed. All legal considerations have been made,” said the …

AT Kabul: The special representative of the President of Iran in Afghanistan announced his meeting with Afghan and Iranian activists and businessmen. Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, says that in a meeting with some Afghan and Iranian activists and businessmen in Mashhad city, he discussed business opportunities, …