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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AT News KABUL: In an effort to seek negotiating political settlement in the Afghan conflict, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad told President Ashraf Ghani that the Afghans should not let the opportunity for peace to slip away. Ghani’s spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi said that President had met …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban have announced they would not have plans to meet President Ashraf Ghani in his visit to Qatar. Ghani left Monday for Qatar to meet the Persian Gulf state’s officials as well as a delegation from Kabul staying in Doha to hold peace talks with the …
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AT News KABUL: The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators have agreed and resolved 18 out of 20 cases of differences. The US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said Monday that the two sides’ contact groups continue meetings on the procedures of the intra-Afghan talks and only two points of …
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AT News KABUL: The parliament says that former public health minister Ferozuddin Feroz who was charged for corruption during the coronavirus-related lockdown, has illegally left the country. The parliament also said in a report on Monday that President Ghani also allowed the payment to contractors before an assessment.Kamal Safi, a …
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AT News KABUL: The Afghan authorities on Monday ruled out opening educational institutions that could have spike the coronavirus cases in the country. According to them, the virus in Afghanistan is at stage of declination and its wild spread has been contained. Despite slight decrease in the positive number of …
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