AT News KABUL: A Pashtun young politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen – the man leading protests accusing Pakistan’s army of human rights abase, has been arrested for alleged criminal conspiracy and sedition. Pashteen was taken into custody along with nine others from his base …
Read More »Military ramps up counter-insurgency raids amid Doha peace talks
AT News KABUL: Amid painstaking negotiations in Qatar to broker a peace deal, the Ministry of Defense has said the military is ramping up operations to counter an increase in Taliban attacks which are inflicting heavy losses to the belligerents. Defense authorities have said that a bevy of counterinsurgency raids …
Read More »Afghan leaders are forging a comprehensive peace plan: Ex-official
AT News KABUL: The Afghan leaders have been engaged in forging a comprehensive and single peace plan to galvanize the process of peace talks and also feasible and comprehensible in facilitating Afghan-to-Afghan talks once peace deal is brokered between the United States and the Taliban, said a former government official …
Read More »First DNA forensics lab launched in Kabul
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Ministry of Public Health – in cooperation with the Ministries of Justice, Interior and Attorney General Office – launched on Sunday the first ever DNA and forensic laboratory complex along with a training center in Kabul, which is expected to help tackle crime. Chief Executive Abdullah …
Read More »Seven arrested in connection with Logar alleged sex assault scandal
AT News KABUL: Attorney General Office has said seven people have been arrested in connection with investigations into serious misconduct allegations against schoolchildren in southeastern province of Logar that has made headlines. The sex scandal rocking boys’ schools over past months in Logar which has escalated into a full-blown investigation …
Read More »Afghanistan ready to take action to combat the spread of Coronavirus
AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health assures people of fully readiness in prevention of the Coronavirus that takes victims in China, the country it was found for the first time. Health Minister, Firozuddin Firzo, said Saturday that they had meetings with officials from World Health Organization to ask …
Read More »Teenage girl sexually assaulted in Bamyan
AT News KABUL: Local officials in central Bamyan province have said a teenage girl has been sexually assaulted by unknown men in the provincial capital city. Police spokesman, Mohammad Reza Yusufi has described the age of the girl to around 15th and said the event took place in Bigfoladi area …
Read More »Hundreds march in Mazar to protest insecurity
AT News KABUL: As instability haunts northern Afghanistan, hundreds of people took to the streets in Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province in a protest to denounce a steep rise in insecurity, demanding measures to combat the hooliganism in the city. The protestors were carrying out the corpse of 22 years old, …
Read More »Karzai calls for ‘coordinated peace plan’
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai emphasized that the peace plan should be coordinated. In a meeting with some political leaders, Karzai said Saturday that they were to form a peace outline to represent all the people of Afghanistan. Abdullah Abdullah, who runs for presidency, welcomed the step, saying …
Read More »Taliban murder girl and dump her body in a garden
AT News KABUL: Taliban militants in the north have reportedly killed a young girl and dumped her body in a garden after keeping it in an undisclosed location for two days, according to authorities in Faryab province. Faryab police chief, Mohammad Nasir Khan, said the girl has been ruthlessly killed …
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