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AT News KABUL: The smuggling of Pakistani goods to Afghanistan has decreased by half in the outgoing fiscal year. Pakistani officials announced Saturday that the country’s goods had been smuggled to Afghanistan in the previous years under the name of transit which affected bilateral trade. The smuggling of tea, tire, …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission expresses “extreme concerns” over the recent attacks on the journalists and members of the civil society, warning that the continuation of such attacks would challenge the ongoing peace efforts. In a statement issued Saturday, the commission condemns attacks on reporters and …

AT News KABUL: At least four people were killed when four bombs exploded in different parts of Kabul city on Saturday morning. Kabul police said that an employee of the second vice president’s office was among the injured. Faramarz Ferdaus, Kabul police spokesman, said that all the blasts were magnetic …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The foreign ministry of China said that there have been steady progresses made in all undertakings in Xinjiang state of China. Talking to a press conference, Chinese Deputy Director-General of the Publicity Department, Xu Guixiang said that the security has been surging across Xinjiang. “Firstly, the …

AT News KABUL: At least 22 Taliban rebels and four al-Qaeda terrorists were killed in an airstrike launched by the Afghan security forces in various parts of southern Helmand province, ministry of defense said on Saturday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Fawad Aman said that 15 Taliban prisoners …

AT News KABUL: A top official in the northern Faryab province said that a Taliban prisoner, who has been released based on the US-Taliban peace deal signed February 29th, was killed in the fight against the Afghan security forces. The deal stipulated the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Deputy Tourism Minister Vali Teymouri met Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Culture Sayeda Mojgan Mostafavi over the development of the industry between the two neighboring nations. The two officials discussed the expansion of tourism between the two countries through videoconference on Friday, Iranian media reported on …

AT News KABUL: After a halt on the regular morning 6:30 session, First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh said the meeting would continue but the details would not be shared with the media. “The Afghan people should be assured that happy news is on the way to them but bad news …

Political Leaders Attend 2nd Meeting of Reconciliation Council AT News KABUL: The second meeting of the leadership committee of High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) held on Saturday, leading by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, head of the council, the leaders focused on the Afghan peace process, calling on the Afghan negotiating …

The air over the capital city of Kabul looks like the bricklaying factories that use plastics and tires as fuel at the eastern and northern outskirts of the city and that blacken the surrounding area with smoke. The air of the capital city is just black and one cannot see …