AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to complete the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners in the near time. “With this action, we look forward to the start of direct negotiations with the Taliban in a week’s time,” President Ghani said this in his address to the fourth Senior …
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AT News KABUL: Two people have lost their lives as a result of magnetic bomb blast ripped through Kabul, the capital city on Tuesday morning, an official said. A magnetic bomb attacked to a police pick-up went off in Badam Bagh area at around 08:00am local time, said police spokesman …
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AT News KABUL: Coronavirus figures in both (cases and deaths) have been dropped significantly over the past few weeks in Afghanistan. One patient has lost life battling the virus, the Afghan health ministry said on Tuesday. 160 new cases were tested positive from 416 suspected simples in the last 24 …
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By Irfanullah Mateen During Covid-19 pandemic, Afghan government implemented a project of 2 billion Afghanis to distribute bread amongst the poorest. But due to the large scale of corruption and lack of transparency in the project, the needy people didn’t get much benefit out of it. Now, the government wants …
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AT News KABUL: Officials in the mountainous province of Ghor in the center of the country say that civilian casualties have increased 35 per cent there since a February peace agreement between the United States and Taliban under which the latter pledged to reduce violence. Aref Shadan, head of the …
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AT News KABUL: The first half of 2020 witnessed fluctuating levels of violence impacting civilians in Afghanistan, with the United Nations documenting 3,458 civilian casualties (1,282 killed and 2,176 injured), according to a new report released on Sunday. While the civilian casualty figures represent a 13 percent decrease as compared …
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AT News KABUL: In the wake of the prisoner swap process between the government and Taliban as part of the US-Taliban peace deal, the militants freed a batch of 37 Afghan security forces in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar. The Taliban political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said in a …
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AT News KABUL: At least one Afghan security personnel was killed and two others wounded after an Afghan military helicopter made an emergency landing in Kajaki district of southern Helmand province, officials said on Monday. A security official, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said that a Black Hawk …
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AT News KABUL: Health officials in western Herat province have expressed concerns on possible second wave of covid-19 pandemic in the eve of busy ramble ahead of the Muslim Holiday Eid-al Adha. If the citizens committed negligence, there is the possibility of infection of a large number of people to …
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AT News KABUL: With 106 new positive cases registered in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now officially has 36,263 coronavirus cases across the country. The Ministry of Public Health on Monday said that out of 471 suspected samples, 106 were reported positive. According to the ministry 20 positive cases registered …
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