AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned rocket and artillery attacks by Pakistani army on the border province of Kunar. The attacks inflected casualties on the Kunar resident. Karzai called the attacks a violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty and against all international norms and principles. He called on Islamabad …
Read More »Roadside bomb kills five policemen in Nimroz
AT News KABUL: At least five police officers were killed by a roadside bomb in the southwestern province of Nimroz, provincial officials confirmed.a The incident took place on Tuesday in the Kang district, Bahram Haqmal, a provincial official said. Two more officers were injured in this attack that targeted their …
Read More »Surge in violence spurs calls for ceasefire
AT News KABUL: As uptick in Taliban attacks is threatening the prospects of lasting peace in the country, the disabled people in Kunduz province are demanding both the Afghan government and the Taliban to negotiate a peaceful settlement and end the war. Dozens of disabled people are seen embroidering on …
Read More »33 drug traffickers sentenced to prison
AT News KABUL: At least 33 drug runners were found guilty to drug trafficking and sentenced to several years of jail term. These cases were executed in the past one week. A statement issued by the Courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that three drug traffickers sentenced to …
Read More »Latest Doha talks fail to clinch deal on ground rules
AT News KABUL: Delegates of the Afghan government and the Taliban negotiating a political settlement to end Afghanistan’s war have again failed to clinch a deal after the stalled talks restarted in Qatar. Both sides acknowledge that the agreement was only to continue talks to resolve differences and the delegates …
Read More »Danish calls on statistics office to keep neutrality in providing information
AT News KABUL: Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danesh called on the national statistics office to be impartial in providing information and not to be under any political pressures. He warned that nothing would be trustable and reliable if the statistics jobs are politically meddled. “We will face problems in making …
Read More »11 civilians killed in twin blasts in central Maidan Wardak province
AT News KABUL: At least 11 civilians were killed and four others were wounded in two separate roadside bomb blasts in insecure Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province, provincial officials confirmed on Tuesday. Women and children are among the fatalities. A bus and a Toyota Corolla-model car, both were …
Read More »US will pull out troops by 2020 end, Abdullah tells Iranian media
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, director of the reconciliation council said that the US would pull all its soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of this year. “We have been in war for 42 years and in war with Taliban for more than two decades and this is the …
Read More »82 new covid-19 infections registered in last 24 hours
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 82 new positive cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 40,369 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Tuesday. These cases come positive out of 398 suspected samples, 32 new cases were recorded in Herat, …
Read More »Afghanistan could be embroiled in civil war after US troop pullout
NSA Hamdullah Mohib fears threat of civil war looms large on Afghanistan after a whirlwind American troop pullout, but he is confident Afghan government will spare no effort to cushion the blow of an impending US exit AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor, Hamdullah Mohib, warned that Afghanistan is …
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