AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US President Joe Biden said the US would likely fail to meet the 1 May deadline to pull out American troops from Afghanistan, but added that he couldn’t “picture” American military presence in the country next year. “We are not staying for a long time. We …
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AT News KABUL: After five decades of its inception, finally the Kamal Khan Dam was inaugurated on Wednesday. The mega dam opened in the southwestern Nimroz province, boarding with the neighboring Iran. Located on the Helmand River in the Chahar Burjak district of Nimroz, the Kamal Khan Dam was planned …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 34 new coronavirus cases and one death in the past 24 hours around the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 56,226 cases across the country. These new cases come out of …
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AT News KABUL: More than 49,000 people were displaced during the past two months as violence has been intensifying across Afghanistan. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report that the displaced people included children and women who were forced to leave their residence due …
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AT News KABUL: A man was detained on charge of sexually assaulting an eight years old girl in PD3 of Kabul city, security official said on Tuesday. Kabul Police Spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz said that the case has been under investigation and would be sent to the judicial department. He was …
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AT News KABUL: Logar Governor, Abdul Qayyum Rahimi denied collapse of the district to the Taliban, terming the reports over falling of the districts as inaccurate. Earlier, there were some reports about the fall of the Charkh district of Logar into the Taliban. But provincial officials denied the reports, saying …
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By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA It has been two decades in the making since the US and allied forces toppled Taliban regime and installed Hamid Karzai as head of transitional Government of Afghanistan in 2001, who continued to rule the country for thirteen years, followed by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who took …
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By Zia Nezam We must strive to achieve a peace agreement, but it must be a fair and equitable peace agreement. In the 2019 Asia Foundation national survey of 18,000 respondents, only 13 percent of Afghans said that they have a lot or a little sympathy for the Taliban, while …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 24 new cases of COVID-19 out of 1,006 suspected samples tested in the last 24 hours, said ministry of public health on Monday. Six patients were fully recovered during the same period of time, according to the ministry. The new cases were recorded in …
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The first day of the New Year in Afghanistan is called Nawroz. It begins on the spring equinox, and is being celebrated worldwide by various ethno-linguistic groups. The first day of our month is “Hamal”. Nawroz is a rite dating back to at least the 6th centuries BC. This historic …
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