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AT News KABUL: Unknown gunmen killed Mohammad Ismail Sahak, head of the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) in Paghman district of Kabul province on Wednesday morning, security official said. Kabul Police Spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz said the incident involving shooting occurred at 6:30AM local time in the Qala Wazir area …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 70 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths across the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 56,943 cases around the country. The new cases …

AT News KABUL: A roadside bomb explosion killed four passengers and wounded 14 others in Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Tuesday. The fatalities come as the passenger’s bus hit a militant planted roadside bomb, an official told Afghanistan Times. The blast occurred when the Taliban insurgents …

AT News KABUL: A number of Taliban militants gang-raped and shot dead a 16-year-old girl in northern Jawzjan province, security officials said on Tuesday. Spokesman for the 209 Shaheen Military Corps, Mohammad Haneef Rezayee said the incident took place two days back in Darzab district of the province. The Taliban …

AT News KABUL: The university students in the northeastern province of Takhar continued protests on Tuesday with the aim of “justice” for those students killed and injured. They demanded justice and punishment of the perpetrators of the incident. The protestors claimed that police opened fire on their class-fellows on Monday, …

AT News KABUL: The high reconciliation council says that they are evaluating different plans prepared by President Ghani and political parties regarding peace. President Ghani is expected to publicize his peace plan today (Wednesday). Feraidoon Khozon, spokesman of the reconciliation council, said Tuesday that totally 25 plans have been sent …

AT News KABUL: Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danesh in reaction to complaints made by the Afghan Sikhs and Hindus for misbehavior by some of compatriots. “I am called Indian. Even my colleagues who know me very well, ask me questions about India and say ‘you know India more’,” says senator …

AT News KABUL: Officials in the northern Kunduz province reported the death of four police officers that lost their lives in a Taliban attack in PD 5th of the provincial capital city of the same name, Kunduz. Provincial Council Member, Mohammad Yusuf Ayoubi said that the three security forces were …

AT News KABUL: At least 104 Taliban militants were killed and 68 others wounded during latest military stings of the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense ministry said on Tuesday. The latest military crackdowns conducted in Ghazni, Zabul, Herat, Farah, Badghis, …

AT News KABUL: The Kabul Police have arrested 14 people on the charge of different crimes during the latest crackdown carried out around the city in the past 24 hours. These suspected criminals are accused of offenses in different PDs of Kabul city, Kabul Police Press Desk said in a …