AT News KABUL: Journalists in the relatively secure province of Bamiyan in the center of Afghanistan express concerns over what they say “restrictions in access to information”. In a resolution issued Tuesday, they called on the local government not to spare sharing information with the media based on the information …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 21 New Cases of COVID-19
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 21 new cases of Coronavirus around the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 56,016 cases across the country. The new cases come positive out …
Read More »14 Civilians Killed as Violence Surges Amid U.S. Push to End War
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 14 innocent civilians have been killed while many more were wounded in the past three days of violence in Kabul, the capital city and in northern Baghlan and western Heart provinces. The Afghan masses have tasted a relentless spite in violence amid renewed U.S. …
Read More »Avalanche Kills 25 Taliban Rebels in Paktia
AT News KABUL: Heavy snow and avalanches have killed 25 Taliban rebels in southeastern Paktia province, officials said on Monday, adding they were killed after trying sneakily to go to Pakistan. Provincial Police’s Spokesman Mohammad Lal Amiri said the incident occurred on Sunday night in Tangizaghni area of Zazi Aryoub …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 23 Covid-19 Cases, One Death in a Single Day
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 23 new coronavirus infections and one death in the past 24 hours across the country, said the Ministry of Public Health on Monday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic reached to 55,995 cases around the country. The news cases come positive …
Read More »Over 1K Soldiers Graduate Military Training
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Monday said that 1,057 soldiers completed military training and graduated from Kabul Military Training Center. Out of 1,057 trained soldiers, 102 are female, who completed a 12 week military training, the ministry said in a statement. Army Chief of Staff General Mohammad …
Read More »China Urges ‘Orderly’ Foreign Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: China, which has stepped up its engagement for the success of peace process in Afghanistan, on Sunday called for the orderly foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Speaking in a press conference, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu expressed concern over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, …
Read More »Afghanistan Will Not Go Back To War Era, Assures Official
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is not expected to go back to the dark era of war, deputy defense minister Shah Mahmood Miakhil assured. Civil wars in the 1990s by the mujahideen groups changed Kabul city to a ruin. Now, the people of Afghanistan are worried they would witness another war …
Read More »Prominent Afghan Singer Dies in Exile
AT News KABUL: Afsana Nawabi, one of veteran and pioneer women singers passed away in Germany at the age of 70. She was recently suffering from cancer. Mohammad Taher Zohair, acting minister of information and culture, said Sunday that Paikar Soltan known by her stage name Afsana passed away in …
Read More »Abdullah Calls on Govt. Not To Register Tribes in e-ID Cards
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, head of reconciliation council called on the statistics department not to include different tribes in the electronic identification cards. The comment follows Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh’s reaction to the statistics department’s decision over registering small tribes in the electronic ID card. Danesh said on …
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