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By Farid Tavos Unemployment of citizens who depend upon daily wages in Afghanistan has pushed them to the point at which they are turning to domestic violence as an escape from their miserable circumstances. As the coronavirus cases are exacerbating throughout the world, the lockdown periods are being extended to …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan With groundless accusations about the human rights situation in Chinese Xinjiang and China’s governance policy there and rampant vilification of Chinese anti-terrorism and de-radicalization interventions, the so-called Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act passed recently by the US House of Representatives is a serious …

AT News KABUL: Two police officers were killed and two more wounded when a Taliban infiltrators opened fire on them in the southern province of Uruzgan, provincial officials said. Zelgai Ebadi, provincial spokesman, said that the incident happened late Monday at a police checkpoint at the southern outskirts of Tarin …

AT News KABUL: The deadly Corona virus has affected some six million children in Afghanistan with facing different vulnerabilities. The ministry of labor and social affairs, said Tuesday that more than seven million children are facing with poverty due to the virus spread. Four million of the children have been …

AT News KABUL: At least seven laborers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in the northern province of Kunduz, provincial officials confirmed. The incident took place late Monday in Jangal Bashi area of the Khan Abad district, provincial spokesman Esmatollah Moradi said. Another six people, Moradi said, …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission published a proposal on the perspective of intra-Afghan-negotiations, in which it called on the conflict sides to include the victims of the war in the process. A member of the AIHRC, Zabiullah Farhang said that the proposal contains four parts. “The …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan lawmakers on Tuesday have expressed their anger over delay of the government’s cabinet appointments–saying that they would strip acting ministers of their authority if the government did not introduce its cabinets to the parliament. Deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house), Abass Ibrahimzada said …

AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Balkh have said that at least four people were detained over alleged of sexual assault of a woman in Dehdai district of the province. The detainees were arrested alongside two rounds of AK-47 on Monday late evening, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier, a …

AT News KABUL: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Tuesday said that it has recorded 759 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 16,509 in Afghanistan. Health Ministry said that out of 1,322 suspected samples, 759 were tested positive during this period. 266 …

AT News KABUL: A terrorist bombing wreaked havoc at a mosque in Kabul on Tuesday night, killing two worshippers including Afghanistan’s most revered clergies and injuring at least two others. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Imam of the mosque, Dr. Ayaz Niazi – a famous …