AT News KABUL: The Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC) on Wednesday announced it has ended the scrutiny to appellant complaints with addressing of 22,500 elections related whines. Head of IECC, Zuhra Baian Shinwarai in a press conference said that out of 22,500 complaints and objections, 16,500 of them have been …
Read More »Afghanistan closes borders as China’s Coronavirus continues
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has sealed its borders and restricted travel to and from the People’s Republic and also Tajikistan amid a novel coronavirus outbreak that has spread beyond even the figures reported for the country’s last deadly disease epidemic. Authorities in northern Badakhshan province bordering China and Tajikistan have …
Read More »52 insurgents killed in fresh stings
AT News KABUL: At least 52 Taliban militants have been killed and 36 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Wednesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »Government sells private lands to beverage company
AT News KABUL: More than 140 acres of lands the government’s cabinet sold to Alokozay, a non-alcoholic beverage company were the properties of a man named Karabala Khan. The Sputnik news agency reported on Tuesday that the lands lying in the Deh Sabz district, east of Kabul were sold 2015 …
Read More »Taliban should engage in negotiations with Afghans, not America: Hekmatyar
AT News KABUL: As the marathon peace negotiations seems in tatters, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has called on the Taliban to engage in talks with Afghans as America is losing in Afghanistan. Hezb-i-Islami leader in an interview with Anadolu Agency insisted that Taliban should initially talk to Afghans, not Americans. “Intra-Afghan talks …
Read More »Special section to control novel corona-virus opens in Kabul
AT News KABUL: In an effort to take immediate action to quell a possible impinge on coronavirus—a deadly virus outbreak from China, the ministry of public health said it has opened a hundred bed special units in Afghan-Japan hospital in Kabul. Prevention and control of coronavirus is on top agenda …
Read More »37 insurgents killed in Ops
AT News KABUL: At least 37 Taliban militants have been killed and 17 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Tuesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »406 Taliban fighters surrender to Afghan troops within one month
AT News KABUL: At least 406 Taliban militants have surrendered to the Afghan security forces in three western provinces within one month, ministry of defense said on Tuesday. Ministry’s spokesman, Fawad Aman said that 59 Taliban fighters laid down their arms and surrendered to the Afghan National Defense and Security …
Read More »Abdullah rejects changes in foreign ministry
AT News KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah reacted to recent changes in the leadership in ministry of foreign affairs, saying “nobody has the right of any changes under the name of reforms in the current critical situation”. Meanwhile, legal experts call on President Ashraf Ghani to act based on a …
Read More »Ghani’s administration main obstacle before negotiating team: Najafi
AT News KABUL: The United States urges President Ashraf Ghani’s government to form a team for holding peace negotiations with Taliban, while Afghan politicians accuse the government of being the main obstacle before appointing the team. The US Embassy to Kabul, said Monday in a statement that Washington’s special envoy …
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