AT News KABUL: The fate of the Afghan nation lies at the hands of few election commissioners as the presidential election is becoming more and more compounded after a national consensus for a political settlement continues to founder. The prolonged election process has become very irritating in the face of …
Read More »Hullabaloo simmers after House passes next year’s budget bill
Some have taken umbrage at what they tout as unbalanced budget, slinging accusations on a few lawmakers to vote it through AT News KABUL: Afghan parliament on Wednesday passed the budget bill for the next year, igniting a firestorm of criticism and charges that the bill is drastically unbalanced and …
Read More »Teenage girl murdered and mutilated by father in honor killing
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is one of the worst countries for female, where women facing high threats to make their own wish life as they even have to bear the toughest violence as part of the cultural taboos in the society, and they have been set in caves and provided …
Read More »Insurgents strike tens of health facilities in east
AT News KABUL: The Taliban fighters have destroyed around 50 public health centers and blocked over 112 others mostly in eastern part of the country during one year, top health official said on Tuesday. Minister of Public Heath, Ferozuddin Feroz in a press briefing talked about the ministry’s achievements in …
Read More »Taliban spokesman: ‘We have discussed future steps with Americans’
AT News KABUL: The Taliban’s spokesman in Doha said the insurgent group has discussed the next steps for peace negotiations with Americans in their Monday parleys. Suhail Shaheen said in a tweet on Monday that their negotiations with Americans continued till late Monday with presence of the US special envoy …
Read More »Afghanistan pockets millions in wake of Iran airspace closure
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority on Monday said the country is raking in an estimated revenue of around $100,000 per day after the biggest international airlines began steering clear of Iranian airspace in wake of the flare-up of Iran’s tensions with the US earlier this month. Following the …
Read More »Airstrikes pummel Taliban stronghold in Ghazni, killing 15
AT News KABUL: Afghan Air Forces (AAF) conducted airstrikes targeting fighters loyal to the Taliban group in different districts of southern Ghazni province, in which at least 15 insurgents were killed, ministry of defense said on Tuesday. In the Gilan district of the province, eleven Taliban fighters were killed and …
Read More »Man wants justice for family members killed in Khost
AT News KABUL: Razo Khan, a resident of Khost province who has lost four members of his family in an operation launched by the Special Force unit of the National Directorate of Security, calls for justice. He said Tuesday that the Special Forces stormed his house in Khost in 2018, …
Read More »Karzai praises Bacha Khan for ‘fighting violence, extremism’
AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai in a statement on the occasion of independence activist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s (aka Bacha Khan) 32nd death anniversary, praised him for his nonviolent battle against violence and extremism. “Pride of Afghans Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a shining star of nonviolent thought, …
Read More »Electoral complaint commission to start meeting appealing requests
AT News KABUL: The independent electoral complaint commission is to start probing of appealing requests today (Tuesday). The commission has registered so far 6,300 appealing requests from 34 provinces mostly registered by presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah. Sayed Qutbuddin Roydad, a member of the body said Monday that the appealing requests …
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