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AT-KABUL: Following reports about banning Afghan traders to not access Attari area of India’s Punjab state based on the Afghan Pakistan Transit and Trade Agreement (APTTA), the Indian government on Saturday announced that Afghan traders are allowed to access the area and unload their trucks at Integrated Check Post in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 1,000 Afghan refugees were detained by Pakistani police in Punjab district of Pakistan, media reports said Saturday. Pakistani media said that around 935 Afghan refugees were arrested by Punjab police on charges of having no legal document for stay in the district. According to …

AT-KABUL: As many as 21 insurgents were killed during an operation launched against anti-state elements in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province. District chief Amanuddin Quraishi said on Saturday that in the two-joint day operations five security personnel were also killed. He said that dead bodies of several militants still …

KABUL: Minister-designate for Finance, Muhammad Eklil Hakemi, told Wolesi Jirga that corruption has limited customs revenue but no attention was paid though it is a sustainable source of income for the country. Outlining his future plan to improve the status of revenue collection, he said that some corrupt officials in …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai called upon media to play role for promoting national unity and bring positive change in the society. In a meeting with staffers of Afghanistan Times and Daily Dunia the other day, the former president said that Afghan media should devise a comprehensive policy which could strengthen …

  AT-KABUL: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, believed to be around 90-year old, breathed his last on Friday and replaced by his half-brother Salman. In a statement the royal palace said that the king died at 1:00 am local time, however did not mention cause of his death. The late king …

AT-KABUL: After a three-day by the Kurram Agency administration for Afghan refugees to leave the area, a number of elders of Afghan refugees urged the Pakistani government to avoid sending them back to Afghanistan until completion of the academic session of their children. They told Pakistani media outlets on the …

AT-KABUL: A Chinese professor who wrote the first Pashto-Chinese dictionary Che Hongcai and Chinese ambassador to Kabul Deng Xijun called on ex-President Hamid Karzai at his office on Wednesday. Che Hongcai, a 78 years old professor of Afghan languages at a university in China, granted a copy of the dictionary …

AT-KABUL: Following conflicting reports on presence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters in Afghanistan, spokesman to the ex-President Hamid Karzai said that the terrorist group operating under the label of the ISIS or Daish is the creation of Islamabad aimed to gain access to the energy-rich …

KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai has said that he is hopeful about the recent operations by Pakistan against terrorists, but there are no signs of change in Pakistan’s policy towards insurgents. The BBC Pashto Service on Wednesday quoted the ex-President Karzai, as saying that the situation would go better if …