AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) has said that more than 850,000 Afghan refugees have returned home from the US, Asian and European countries in the last one year. Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, Noor Rahman Akhlaqi said that 43 Afghans returned back home from the …
Read More »Taliban Asked to Return to the Talks
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the high council for national reconciliation calls on the regional countries having influences on the Taliban to persuade the militants for resuming peace negotiations with Kabul as the insurgents are apparently not interested in resolve Afghanistan’s problems through dialogue. Taliban negotiating team …
Read More »Afghan Negotiators Back Home as Taliban Refuses Talks in Qatar
AT News KABUL: At least five of 21 people appointed by the government of Afghanistan to run the intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban militants, have reportedly left Qatar, where they have been engaged in discussing ways for peace since September. Amin Ahmadi, Rassoul Taleb, Kalimullah Naqibi, Matin Baig and Habiba …
Read More »Govt. Employee Killed in Kabul Blast
AT News KABUL: An employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Macroyan of Kabul city on Tuesday, security officials said. The incident happened when a mine hit a land cruiser type of vehicle of the ministry at 9:20 am local time …
Read More »Abdullah Annoys as Taliban Evade Talks
Afghan officials blamed Taliban for breaching their commitments under the deal agreed with the US – asking the group to stick in the talks as it provides a great platform to discuss and overcome wrangle issues By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Senior Afghan officials on Tuesday lambasted the Taliban for …
Read More »46 Taliban Rebels Killed in Fresh Raids
AT News KABUL: At least 46 Taliban fighters have been killed and 22 others were wounded during latest crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces in different provinces across the country in the past 24 hours, defense officials said Tuesday. Afghan Air Forces targeted Taliban’s gathering and strongholds in …
Read More »Tens of Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Prison
AT News KABUL: A band of 34 people who plead guilty for trafficking narcotics have been sentenced in Kabul to three to 29 years in prisons over the past week, anti-drug authority said on Tuesday. A statement issued by the courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), said that seven …
Read More »NDS arrested six-member Haqqani-Daesh joint terror cell in Kabul
By M. Parwiz Arian KABUL: Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) during a special operation have arrested a six-member joint terror cell of the Daesh and Haqqani Network in Kabul, the intelligence agency said Tuesday. The joint terror cell was responsible for targeted killings and the transportation …
Read More »President Xi Jinping’s holistic view of national security Guides China-Afghanistan Security Cooperation to a New High
By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese President Xi Jinping has, on the basis of a deep understanding of the trend of history, put forward a series of new strategic, forward-looking and science-based ideas and concepts to …
Read More »Four Police killed in western Herat province
By M Parwiz Arian KABUL: At least four members of the Afghan security forces were killed and one was injured after their car was hit by a terrorist planted land mine in western Herat province, officials said Tuesday. The incident took place Tuesday morning on Herat-IslamQala highway of Herat province, …
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