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 …
Read More »Taliban say not willing to meet Ghani in Qatar
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 …
Read More »Afghanistan, Taliban tilt towards solution amid talks’ stagnation
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 …
Read More »Former health minister escapes overseas after corruption charges
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 …
Read More »Health authorities urge vigilance against coronavirus
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 …
Read More »Karzai condemns Laghman ‘terrorist attack’
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned a “terrorist attack” that killed and injured civilians in the eastern Laghman province. The attack targeted provincial governor on Monday morning who escaped unhurt, but at least eight people, mostly civilians were killed and scores of others wounded, according to …
Read More »Daily COVID-19 cases jump to 81
AT News KABUL: There were a total of 81 new registered cases of the coronavirus in Afghanistan over the past day, the Ministry of Health said on Monday, bringing the total number of infections with the disease since the start of the pandemic to 39,422. Ministry said that out of …
Read More »Stupefying a nation: President Ghani says he fixed the whole Afghanistan, did he?
President Ashraf Ghani had made an astonishing claim that he had fixed the whole Afghanistan. He repeated this, and asked the audience, didn’t he? “I fixed the whole Afghanistan, didn’t I? President asked the audience in a gathering in southeastern Paktika province. The participants had no choice but to agree …
Read More »Road accident killed 3 on Kabul-Parwan highway
KABUL- A traffic accident took the lives of at least three passengers on Monday on Kabul-Parwan highway, officials said. Three other passengers were injured in the accident which took place Monday morning on the busy highway of Kabul-Parwan that connects capital Kabul to the north of the country. The injured …
Read More »Laghman governor survives car bombing, eight killed
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least eight people were killed and 30 others wounded today morning, after the convoy of Laghman governor, Rahmatullah Yarmal, hit by a car bombing, in Mehtarlam, capital city of eastern Laghman province, said officials. The car bombing targeted vehicles of the governor in Sultan-Ghazi-Baba township, …
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