AT News KABUL: A Pakistani terrorist and top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group for Afghanistan, Qari Azam was killed in Peshawar due to internal rivalry within the group over drug trafficking, according to reports. He also headed the joint Shura of JeM and LeT to coordinate operations in Afghanistan. He …
Read More »Activists urge media access to Doha talks
AT News KABUL: The committee for safety of journalists, a non-government entity active in supporting journalists’ rights, says that the government has disrupted access to information about the ongoing peace negotiations with the Taliban. A number of journalists who have come back from Qatar, where they had gone to cover …
Read More »Afghan negotiators defend ‘Islamic republic’ state in talks with Taliban
AT News KABUL: The Afghan government’s negotiating team urges on the preserving of the Islamic Republic in peace negotiations with Taliban. Massoum Stanakzai, the government’s chief negotiator, said Wednesday in Qatar, where the peace talks are going on with the Taliban for the first time, saying that the people of …
Read More »Peace talks, an outcome of decades of resistance; Khalili
AT News KABUL: Former head of High Peace Council Karim Khalili said Wednesday that peace talks with Taliban in Doha is a result of forty years of resistance of jihadi leaders and martyrs of resistance era and that these efforts will not be squandered. At a seminar to showcase scientific …
Read More »15 killed as Taliban violence rages in north amid ceasefire push
AT News KABUL: At least nine security forces and six civilians were killed in latest clashes erupted between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban fighters in Northern parts of Afghanistan, authorities said on Wednesday. The Taliban staged attacks on several areas of Chaharkant district of northern Balkh province. District …
Read More »Korea to build hundreds of houses for returnees
AT News KABUL: The Republic of Korea and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have joined hands to construct permanent houses for 253 families in the priority return areas of Afghanistan. The generous contribution from the Government of Korea will be channeled towards UNHCR’s cash for shelter project in Afghanistan. Through …
Read More »Taliban reject ‘foreign influence’ in peace talks
AT News KABUL: Taliban spokesman in Qatar said any foreign interference in Afghanistan peace talks must end and Afghans will have to resolve their domestic conflict on their own. Taliban’s spokesman Mohammad Naeem Wardak in a tweet said that no foreign country should interfere in peace negotiations and Afghans must …
Read More »Woman found dead in Kandahar
AT News KABUL: A dead body of a woman with a peeled face and head was found in Kandahar, police officials said on Wednesday. The residents have found her in Aino Mina, Police Spokesman Jamal Naser Barekzai said. The scene showed a woman dead body lying in the ground with …
Read More »10 people die of COVID-19 in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: At least 10 patients have lost their lives battling the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Wednesday. The death tolls jumped to 1,436 since the pandemic outbreak started in the country months ago. 40 new positive coronaviruses were also recorded …
Read More »2 dead in terrorist bombing in Takhar
AT News KABUL: At least two civilians were killed and 12 others received injuries when a motorbike bombing went off in Kalafgan district of northern Takhar province, security officials said Wednesday. The target of the blast was the police chief, Khair Mohammad Timor, according to police. Police said that a …
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