Seyed Seddiq Hussainy KABUL: Kabul police has begun a systematic and vigorous crackdown against criminals, introducing new unprecedented measures aimed at driving down spiraling crime in Kabul city. The new approach focuses more vigilance on the streets, increases the use of stop and search and incarcerates more offenders and criminals. …
Read More »NDS arrests 10 ISIS terrorists behind attack on Vice President
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security said ten terrorists with ISIS and Haqqani links were detained on suspicion of planning a recent attack on First Vice President Amrullah Saleh. According to the NDS, the perpetrators are affiliated to Daesh and Haqqani terrorist groups, who had masterminded and executed …
Read More »US withdrawal plans unnerve Abdullah
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the high council for national reconciliation expresses concerns over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying that the pullout ahead of peace would affect the situation in the war-hit country. He emphasized on Saturday that Afghans should be ready for the US drawdown and …
Read More »Seven civilians killed in twin mine blasts
AT News KABUL: Seven civilians were killed in twin roadside mine blasts in southern Helmand and western Herat provinces. 20 others were wounded after their vehicles they were traveling in hit these mines. In the first incident, a 404 model bus hit a roadside mine planted by the Taliban rebels …
Read More »Taliban commander along two militants killed before entering to Kabul
AT News KABUL: A key Taliban commander and his two acquaintances were killed by the Afghan security forces before entering to Kabul, the interior ministry said on Saturday. Tariq Arian, Spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said that the notorious Taliban commander, Awal Khan, was killed while he was heading …
Read More »Editorial: Idle scrutiny
Afghanistan and the U.S. are not darling to each other, but the U.S. will not withdraw from Afghanistan, once a top official had said. But Afghanistan, with its enormous tensions, needs to set its own house in order or at least to refrain from provocative remarks that bedevil the most …
Read More »NATO to ponder mission in Afghanistan amid US whirlwind pullout plans
AT News KABUL: The NATO has said they will consult on the future of their mission in Afghanistan and will decided together on when to leave Afghanistan as US President Donald Trump said to bring home all the remaining troops by Charismas NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeated the alliance’s …
Read More »US, Pakistan urge reduction of violence in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: The United States and Pakistan urge on reduction of violence in Afghanistan amid the ongoing peace negotiations between Afghanistan and Taliban in Qatar. The US Envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and the US Forces’ Commander in Afghanistan Scott Miller, met with Pakistani army chief Qamar Javid Bajwa …
Read More »India backs Afghanistan peace process
AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council in a visit to India, met with Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi. Indian top diplomat announced his country’s support to the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan, Abdullah’s spokesman Mojib Rahimi said Friday. Jaishankar called peace in Afghanistan …
Read More »President’s aides sow seeds of ethnic divide, Rabbani
AT News KABUL: Salahuddin Rabbani, leade of Jamiat, a former jihadi party accused a circle inside the presidential palace of consciously spreading and intensifying hatreds and conflicts in Afghanistan to divide ethnic groups. Speaking among his supporters Friday in his birthplace Badakhshan province, Rabbani warned against tough consequences of ethnic …
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