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AT News KABUL: The increase of insecurity in the northeastern province of Badakhshan has caused concerns among the residents in addition to fears from Corona virus outbreak. The fears come as Taliban fighters took the Yomgan district in the remote mountainous province once one of the calm areas. Insecurity is …

AT News KABUL: Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Afghanistan surged to almost 400 Monday, with 11 deaths including death in Kabul of a senior doctor after contracting the coronavirus. Spokesman of Public Health Ministry Wahidullah Mayar said on Monday that most of the fatalities were patients with advanced …

The sparring leaders are oscillating in ambivalence as the country is sliding into mayhem. A post-election conflict of ‘wounded egos’ and tug-of-war has disturbed the economy more than it has undermined the politics. The stakes of a feud over power are bigger than they bargained for AT News KABUL: Presidential …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan has reopened Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan after its weeks-long shutdown over coronavirus fears stranded tens of thousands of people and hundreds of trucks. Pakistan said it closed the Torkham border crossing “in order to ensure safety and security of vehicles and pedestrians”. Torkham is the main …

With global economic activity ramping down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not surprising that emissions of a variety of gases related to energy and transport have been reduced. Traffic levels in the city were estimated to be down 35% compared with earlier normal days. Emissions of …

AT News KABUL: The religious scholars called for a ban of any religious and political gatherings after the increase of Corona virus spread in the country. The religious scholars said in a statement released on Sunday that people need to perform five-time prayers at their homes and avoid going to …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of Afghan Sikhs have signed a letter to Indian Embassy to Kabul in which they have called for New Delhi’s help to leave their motherland after a Daesh-claimed deadly attack targeted their temple in Kabul. An attacker stormed a Sikh temple (Gurdwara) on March 25 in …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s political elite have asked president Ghani to halt his political appointments to let an ongoing effort to mediate between him and his rival Abdullah Abdullah unfold. Prominent politicians including Hamid Karzai, Abdulrab Rasoul Sayyaf, and Mohammad Yunus Qanooni – who have been mediating between the two feuding leaders …

AT News KABUL: After the government called for a lockdown in Kabul city for fighting the spread of the deadly Coronavirus, now the governor for capital says the rule would intensify after most of residents did not take it serious, adding that the violators would be fined by cash. The …

AT News KABUL: Positive cases of coronavirus have dramatically increasing in Afghanistan with 337 cases so far recorded across the country in the shortest period of time —an alarm to the war-hit country that scrambling with fragile health system.       Only on Sunday, 28 cases were registered in Kabul, Kandahar, …