AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 138 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 42,297 across the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Monday. Out of 594 suspected samples, 138 were reported positive – 33 positive cases were recorded in Balkh, …
Read More »Afghanistan faces drastic revenue plunge amid customs corruption
AT News KABUL: The ministry of finance says about large corruption in the custom offices, saying that 40 per cent of incomes are wasted. Shamroz Masjedi, the ministry spokesman, said Monday that incorrect tariffs and changing of goods in the custom offices reduce the custom incoming. However, he said that …
Read More »Car bombing in Kandahar kills 8, wounds 35
AT News KABUL: At least eight people were killed and scores injured when a car filled with explosives detonated in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial officials confirmed. The explosive-laden car was detonated close to a police headquarters late Sunday in the Maiwand district, district governor Obaidullah Khan said. Khan …
Read More »We are back – but it’s not the same
By Aisha Khurram Walking with shaky knees and a racing heart, I entered the northern gate of my University, as I got closer to my faculty, I stood there for a while- staring at the shattered windows and bullet-stricken walls of my faculty’s building. Tension was ebbing from my body …
Read More »University students protest ‘worsening security’
AT News KABUL: Scores of Kabul University students protested the deteriorating security situation, calling for death punishment for the perpetrators of this week’s attack against their fell-w-students. Two terrorists affiliated with Daesh group on Monday stormed a building at the Kabul University, opening fire at the students. More than 20 …
Read More »Afghanistan records 126 new covid-19 cases
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 126 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 42,159 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Sunday. The ministry statics show that out of 463 suspected samples, 126 were reported positive – 51 …
Read More »Municipality demolishes Cinema Park
AT News KABUL: Municipality authorities began on Saturday demolishing the archaic complex of Cinema Park as part of development plans to urbanize downtown Kabul, civic officials said. This is as Vice President Amrullah Saleh had already announced that demolition of Cinema Park would begin this week. Spokesman of Kabul Municipality, …
Read More »Military officer assassinated in Kabul
AT News KABUL: A military officer was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Pule-e-Charkhi in PD12 of Kabul city, Kabul police confirmed on Sunday. The incident happened on Sunday morning, said Ferdaws Faramarz, spokesperson for Kabul police chief. Investigation has been launched, he said, with efforts underway to arrest the perpetrators. …
Read More »17 Taliban rebels killed in Herat
AT News KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 17 Taliban insurgents including their commander in Pashton-Zarghon district of western Herat province, official confirmed Sunday. Provincial Governor Spokesman, Jailani Farhad said that the militants staged attacks on the security checkpoints and that the clashes lasted for several hours. …
Read More »We refuse their dogmatic delusion
Commentary Afghanistan has been the prime target of Pakistan’s radical fundamentalists and their terrorist cronies for decades. Those at the very top of Pakistan’s military, political and religious elite hanker after a government in Afghanistan run by thugs and entangled in lawlessness. In a recent travesty under Pakistani military government’s …
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