AT News KABUL: As Kabul and the Taliban are edging towards peace negotiations, Afghan leaders who have been at odds over who becomes the president have ratcheted up effort to reconcile and broker a reconciliation and power-sharing deal to end a bickering that is risking falling into nascent peace talks. …
Read More »Kabul imposes strict quarantine restrictions
Kabul city has been locked down as authorities scramble to contain the wild spread of the coronavirus outbreak amid gloomy forecasts of virus infections and fatalities AT News KABUL: Officials are imposing strict quarantine restrictions in capital Kabul city as they try to control the outbreak of the coronavirus in …
Read More »Taliban rejects Kabul peace force as ‘inconclusive’
AT News KABUL: Taliban reject a delegation introduced by President Ashraf Ghani for the intra-Afghan negotiations, saying it was against a peace deal the group signed with the United States in February. The government on Thursday released the list of 20 people to hold negotiations with Taliban in the framework …
Read More »NSA says Taliban prisoner release is complicated
AT News KABUL: The National Security Council has said that the release of the Taliban prisoner is a complicated, technical and legal process and that any extensional propaganda in regards would sabotage the process. NSA’s Spokesman Javid Faisal in a tweet said that the Taliban have not agreed on a …
Read More »Four of a family killed after argument over duck hunting
AT News KABUL: Security officials in northern Parwan province said that four members of a family have been killed in clash erupted due to hunting a duck in capital of the province. Provincial Police Chief of Countering Criminal Activities, Mohammad Faroq said the clash occurred on Saturday morning in Batokhil …
Read More »Taliban delegation touches down in Kabul as prisoner release nears
AT News KABUL: In a major breakthrough, the Taliban will send a delegation to Afghanistan to facilitate the thorny prisoners swap as part of the peace deal with the United States. A 15-member delegation will arrive in Kabul on Saturday from Kandahar and a few other provinces, according to a …
Read More »2,000 Afghans stranded in India will return home
AT News KABUL: Following the threat of pandemic coronavirus, India has allowed an Afghan Air Flight Company “Kam Air” to transfer the Afghan passengers from the country through five flights. Head of the Civilian Air Traffic, Ghulam Massoum Massoumi said Friday that the flights would be containing around 2,000 passengers …
Read More »Kabul locks down over 6m people amid coronavirus fears
The capital Kabul shut down today (Saturday) as Afghanistan scrambles to contain an exponential spread of the virus AT News KABUL: Authorities have placed Kabul city with a population of more than 6 million people under stringent lockdown after few cases of coronavirus were detected here, as the war-wracked nation stepped …
Read More »Editorial: Countrywide lockdown required
Afghanistan so far has around 94 confirmed cases of the COVID-19, with four deaths, as the virus is spreading from thousands crossing the border each day from hard-hit neighboring Iran. As the coronavirus-induced crisis and panic are spiraling out of control, fortunately, there have been a few measures taken by …
Read More »Sikhs seek asylum in Canada in wake of Gurdwara attack
AT News KABUL: Afghan Sikhs community has called on the government of Canada to accept their asylum plea after a deadly attack conducted by the IS-K or so called Daesh on one of their worship place “Gurdwara” in capital Kabul that killed 25 and wounding eight other Afghan Sikhs. Over …
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