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AT News KABUL: Afghan Journalists Safety Committee has warned of rising threats against the media in Ghazni province, saying the Taliban continue to pressure journalists to self-censor. The watchdog said the Taliban had threatened a number of local journalists and media officials in Ghazni to censor their broadcastings or face …

AT News KABUL: Public services delivery and governance in Afghanistan’s cities have sharply declined, despite government claims of growing investment and improvements. A survey of 11 municipalities across Afghanistan by Transparency Watch shows that delivery of public services in cities has declined. Public services of Kabul Municipality have shown a slump …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 104 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 40,937 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Monday. These cases come positive from 431 suspected samples – 41 positive cases were recorded in Herat, …

AT News KABUL: The Special Anti-Corruption Secretariat has referred Herat Governor, the mayor and 20 other top provincial officials to the Attorney General Office on the charges of committing fraud in the budget of Covid-19. AGO’s spokesman, Jamshid Rasuli said that the provincial governor and three members of the provincial …

AT News KABUL: At least five civilians were killed in two mine blasts in southern Maidan Wardak province. Four civilians were killed, after their car, they were travelling in, was blown up by a militant planted roadside bomb in Jalriz district on Sunday night, the Governor Press Office said on …

The echoes of a recent denunciation of the ongoing war has reverberated loudly in the South Asian nation where clerics are taking a touch line against the escalating conflict and terrorism in Afghanistan AT News KABUL: Prominent Ulema, Sheikhs, and Muftis of Bangladesh have issued a fatwa calling an end …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the high council for national reconciliation welcomed the killing of senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Mohsen al Masri at hands of Afghan intelligence operatives, warning terrorists that Afghanistan was not a safe place for them. Al Masri was al Qaeda leader for Indian subcontinent …

By Mohammad Ihsan KABUL: The Taliban alongside hundreds of foreign terrorists set attacks on Lashkargah, the capital city of southern Helmand province but our brave security forces defeated the militants and based on media reports tens of Taliban, including their governor, top commanders and foreign terrorists were killed and many …

Religious clerics condemned the ongoing war as a mere struggle for power which is perpetuating at a frighteningly high human cost. They called warring factions to stop massacring people and bring peace AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s prominent religious scholars have issued fatwa against the ongoing war in Afghanistan and urged …

AT News KABUL: The first Afghanistan Saffron Institute would be inaugurated by the end of this year in the western Herat province. The State Radio Television reported that the institute would provide training campaigns for farmers to cultivate saffron with a highly standard in order to gain beneficial crops. The …