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AT News KABUL: Local officials in northern Balkh province said that the Taliban rebels have shot dead eight civilians in Sholgara district of the province. The civilians had been earlier abducted by the Taliban in Nahar-e-Surkh village of Sholgara, said provincial police spokesman Adelshah Adel. A woman and a child …

KABUL: Government of Afghanistan has set free 100 Taliban prisoners following storms of criticism from the United States and the Taliban itself for constant delays to do so. Reports suggest that the government has not freed fifteen Taliban commanders whom the Taliban demanded be freed too at the earliest. President …

AT News KABUL: As Italy has been severely suffering from covid-19 outbreak, the country’s national health institute has shared consultations regarding fighting the mental pressure of the coronavirus. The consultation has been shared under the title of “fighting the mental pressure at homes and families”.  The institute wrote that the …

AT News KABUL: Dispute over kite flying has left at least three (kite runners) dead in Kabul, a capital city where its security and health officials are scrambling to halt the spread of wild coronavirus outbreak that so far killed 14 across the country and over 420 others were infected. …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has canceled a decree he had previously issued to restructure the finance ministry, the ministry says. Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, who was recently nominated by Ghani as the caretaker finance minister, said Tuesday that the president returned all finance ministry’s authorities to the body by …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed his deep sympathies over the death of a physician. With regrets, I learned that Dr. Hanifullah Hanif one of our experienced and intelligent cadres passed away, Karzai said in a message. He said that late Hanif was bravely serving at the front …

AT News KABUL: The government calls on Taliban to stop pretexts for delaying the all-Afghan talks, saying that the militants have no reasons for the postponement. President Ghani’s Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi, says if Taliban were committed to peace and the agreement they signed with the United States, they would have …

Afghanistan has been engulfed in a turmoil of uncertainty and its peace process is in shreds. The irony of reconciling with the narco-belligerent, isolationist, troglodytic Taliban is becoming eerily daunting KABUL: Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban group are at odds over the release of militant prisoners with no compromise …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health declared on Tuesday that 56 new positive cases of Covid-19 have been registered in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 423. Herat had the highest number of new cases, registering 27 positive cases. A further 12 cases have …

KABUL: Social media videos showed an influx of thousands of Afghans on Tuesday morning from Pakistan through Torkham cross point without any medical screening, despite fears of a risk of spiraling spread of the new coronavirus. Pakistan is now suffering from 4,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 55 deaths and …