AT News KABUL: A group of four unidentified gunmen attacked and vandalized a wedding house during a ceremony in Kalkan district of northern Kabul province, breaking the instruments of local singers and warning them not to sing anymore. Abdul Ghafoor Popalzai, Kalkan district governor of Kabul province, said the incident …
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AT News KABUL: A delegation sent to Parwan province to evaluate the food and non-food aid to the flood affected people say that the aid packages have not yet been distributed and are kept in bad condition. The delegation said Wednesday that hundreds of packs of foodstuff and other essentials …
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AT News KABUL: Zahra Kazemi, 42, started handicrafts business 17 years ago in Bamyan, a mountainous province in the heart of Afghanistan. Ms. Kazemi now runs a small factory of handicrafts in the province, where 20 women directly and 400 others indirectly work. Ms. Kazemi says her business was very …
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AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Wednesday said it has adopted all efforts to build up security belts across Kabul and its districts. The operation would run by the Afghan National Army’s 111 divisions, the ministry said. Commander of 111 divisions, General Ramin Muqbel said that more soldiers …
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AT News KABUL: The coronavirus, a pandemic that in some way contained in Afghanistan, have taken the lives of two Afghans in the past 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry on Wednesday said another 62 Afghans have contracted the virus in this period, bringing the nation tally to 39,548 across …
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AT News KABUL: A band of 31 people including a Pakistani national who pleaded guilty for trafficking narcotics have been sentenced in Kabul to 10 to 30 years in prison over past week, anti-drug authority said on Tuesday. Appellate courts of the Criminal Justice Task Force convicted and sentenced eleven …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has lost one of its best National Cricket Team players, Najeeb Tarakai. He was 29 years old and succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in eastern Nangarhar province after he had severely received injuries in a traffic accident. “Afghanistan Cricket Board and Afghanistan Cricket Loving …
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AT News KABUL: The National Directorate of Security has arrested fifteen militants of the Taliban group who were planning to execute targeted killings on security forces and political figures in Kabul, officials said on Tuesday. The terrorists were arrested in an interdiction operation and were tasked to assassinate security officials …
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AT News KABUL: Health ministry has confirmed 64 new coronavirus infections being registered in the past 24 hours, pushing the total nation tally to 39,486. These cases come out positive from 372 suspected samples tested during this period of time, the health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. 35 …
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AT News KABUL: At least 275 Taliban militants including local commanders have laid down their arms in northern Afghanistan, defense authorities said on Tuesday, a rare incident of the insurgents surrendering amid an intensified bloodshed and hostilities nationwide. A group of 150 Taliban militants including 15 commanders joined peace process …
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