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AT-KABUL: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) expressed its deep concerns over raising incidents of child marriages across the country. The AIHRC said that efforts to put end to early marriages over the past 14 years, didn’t yield in any positive result. Qadria Yazdanparast, a commissioner of the AIHRC told …

“Pakistan can live for another century provided that Pakistan should not be used against Afghanistan” QUETTA: Chief of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), Mahmood Khan Achakzai, has said that the Pakhtuns are not terrorists and under a conspiracy, they are unwarrantedly dubbed as terrorists. Addressing the International Pashtu Conference …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A teachers strike demanding residential plots closed down at least 71 schools in the southeastern Khost provinces. The teachers in Tanai and Gurbuz districts of the province launched a strike and said that they haven’t received the land plots allotted to them by the government. The teachers …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Special Electoral Reforms Commission (SERC) urged the government to form the election commissions’ selection committee this week. Seddiqullah Tawhidi, the deputy chief of SERC, said that the government should call members of the selection committee to hold meetings. He stressed that the office of administrative to …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) killed eight al-Qaeda fighters, including a senior commander, in Mokhtar Mina area of Gomal district of Paktia province. A press release issued by the NDS said the spy agency said that NATO’s Resolute Support (RS) also assisted them in the crackdown in which …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (WJ) or Lower House of the Parliament on Monday asked President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to share important national issues with the lawmakers, aimed at finding viable solutions. Members of the Wolesi Jirga said the government officials should also tell the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) foiled a major terror attack in Jalalabad city while killing two would-be suicide bombers. In a media statement the Afghan spy agency said on Monday that its operatives were searching vehicles for suspected terrorists in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar …

“A great deal of damage comes to our national security advantage when we beat a hasty withdrawal,” Mac Thornberry said. AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Texas Republic and Chairman of the House Armed Services, Mac Thornberry, asked the United States President Barack Obama to slow down the troops’ pullout from Afghanistan. After …

AT-KABUL: Nai- Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan, a media watchdog, in its report on Monday revealed that media censorship has increased in the country drastically. The survey covering over 335 news reporters in 25 provinces of the country said the situation for the press has not improved under the National …

AT-KABUL: At least 78 armed Taliban fighters were killed and 47 others were wounded in different crackdowns within the past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and the National Directorate of …