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 …
Read More »One Dead, Four Wounded in Kabul Prison Riot
AT News KABUL: One prisoner has been killed and four others were wounded in the physical dispute erupted among the prisoners in Pul-e-Charkhi Central Jail located in capital Kabul, authorities said on Sunday. Farhad Bayani, a spokesman for the office of the prisoner administration said that the dispute occurred on …
Read More »Afghanistan Records 13 New Coronavirus Cases, Two Deaths in Last 24 hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 13 new coronavirus cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours across the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health on Sunday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,972 cases around the …
Read More »Over 10K Soldiers Receive Covid-19 Vaccines
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Sunday announced that over 10,950 Afghan National Army personnel have received Covid-19 vaccination. Covid-19 vaccination programs continue in all army corps and detachments across the country and all ANA members will receive the vaccine, the ministry said in a statement. It’s worth …
Read More »28 Taliban Rebels Killed in Kandahar operations
AT News KABUL: At least 28 Taliban rebels have been killed and seven others were wounded during latest raids conducted by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province in the past 24 hours, defense officials said on Saturday. The Afghan Security Forces supported by the Afghan Air Forces carried …
Read More »Clashes Displace Thousands of Families in Takhar
AT News TALEQAN: Thousands of families have been displaced due to ongoing war and rising insecurity in northern Takhar province, and they are facing serious economic problems. Mohammad Abas, one of the displaced persons said that he had left his house due to the ongoing war and insecurity. He is …
Read More »Ex-President’s Daughter Sees Political Mobilization Key to Peace
AT News KABUL: The daughter of former President, Dr. Najibullah Ahmadzai has called on the Afghan leaders for political besiegement, stressing on the importance of mobilization as the country is in its historic period of peace making. Heela Najibullah said that the Afghan peace process was out of the government’s …
Read More »Govt. to Attend Russia, Turkey Meetings on Afghan Peace
AT News KABUL: President Ghani’s government plans to participate in the both upcoming conferences expected to be held in late this month and in April in Russia and Turkey respectively. “The ministry of foreign affairs and the reconciliation council are working to find out the level of participants from Taliban …
Read More »Karzai Condemns Herat, Zabul Attacks
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the car bomb in the western province of Herat and a mortar attack in the southern province of Zabul. A car bomb killed and injured scores of people mostly civilians in Herat city. A mortar crashed on a house in Zabul …
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