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AT News KABUL: At least 49 drug runners, including three women were found guilty to drug trafficking and were sentenced to years of jail terms in the past one week. The Courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) in a statement said that five drug traffickers were sentenced to two-16 …

AT News KABUL: Kabul Police arrested 10 people on charges of different crimes during the latest crackdown in Kabul city. The Police have succeeded in capturing 10 people accused of armed robbery, disruption of public order, plundering and stealing mobiles of the citizens in 1st, 2nd, 5th, 10th and 15th PDs …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 26 new COVID-19 cases across the country in the past 24 hours, said the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Tuesday. The total tally since the outbreak of the epidemic has reached to 55,894 around the country. The new cases come positive out of …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Tajikistan resumes regular flights to Afghanistan, which were halted due to coronavirus pandemic, starting from 10th March. The decision to restart flights was made following improvement of epidemiological situation in the country, the country’s Civil Aviation Agency said. The first flight from Dushanbe to Kabul will …

AT News KABUL: The committee for journalists’ safety, says the number of women journalists and other media workers had declined 18 per cent in the past six months. The media safety body expressed concerns over increased worsening of the situation for journalists in Afghanistan. Journalists and other media workers are …

AT News KABUL: At least 51 Taliban rebels have been killed and 14 others were wounded during latest raids carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, defense officials said on Monday. The Afghan security forces supported by the Afghan Air …

Karzai Calls Marshal Fahim a “Great Patriot” AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai in an event marking the 7th anniversary of the death of Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim on Monday said that Marshal Fahim was a “great patriot” who always stood beside his people and worked for the welfare …

AT News KABUL: Deputy Intelligence Chief of Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorist group, has been killed during a raid conducted by the operatives of National Directorate of Security (NDS) in eastern Nangarhar province. Amir Khan, aka Masoud Kaftry was killed in Sandali area in Khogyani district, officials …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan needs three million tons of wheat for the Persian Year (1400) which begins on March 21, ministry of agriculture said, since frequent droughts affect the country’s agriculture, gardening and livestock breeding in the outgoing decade. Anwarul Haq Ahadi, minister of agriculture, said Sunday that they had …

AT News KABUL: The Enikass private TV broadcaster fired its women workers after four of their women colleagues were killed in three attacks in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The women workers have been told to stay in their homes until improvement in security situation. Three women workers of the …