AT News KABUL: Shokrullah Atef Mashal, Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan has resigned, a source in the presidential palace said. The source who was speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Kabul News broadcaster on Sunday that Mashal offered his resignation letter to President Ghani and the president agreed with the …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is to join the Global Alliance for Responsible Media and the government welcomed a demand by Britain to join the international body. Alison Mary Blake, British Ambassador to Kabul called Afghanistan to the alliance in a meeting with vice president Sarwar Danesh Sunday in Kabul, Danesh’s …
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KABUL: Afghanistan was hit again by heavy rains and snowfall this week as several provinces across the country reported deaths as well as severe transport delays and disruptions. State Ministry for Disaster Management has confirmed at least 19 deaths caused by the snowstorm and torrential rains across Afghanistan. More than …
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AT News KABUL: Production of marble has increased by 57 percent in Maidan Wardan province, the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum reports. In an interview with Voice of America (VoA), the ministry’s spokesperson Abdul Qadir Mutfi said the province has produced over 46,000 tons of marbles during this fiscal …
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AT News KABUL: Fears of rabies and dangers posed by packs of stray dogs, health officials in eastern Nangarhar has culled and eliminated over 430 dogs in the province. The campaign kicked off Environment Protection Cell of Provincial Health Directorate Run an Anti-Stray Dogs, said a statement issued by Nangarhar …
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Sold newborn reunited with family A newborn sold due to extreme poverty has been reunited with her family in Bamyan. Six-week-old baby, unharmed, was returned to her mother days after she was sold for a meager $650. After a report surfaced about selling of Zahra in Bamyan, says head of …
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Afghan forces kill up to 17 Taliban rebels in Ghazni AT News KABUL: In the past 24 hours, two civilians were shot dead and 17 Taliban fighters were killed in operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Ghazni province. Taliban militants dragged two civilians from a vehicle …
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Parliament is ratcheting up pressure on the government to desist from any reshuffle of high-ranking officials until presidential election results are announced. The Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, Mir Rahman Rahmani, said on Saturday bad appointments and reshuffles in government’s high-ranking positions are taking place under the excuse of ‘reforms’ and “that is …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban are expecting the signing of a peace agreement with the US in the near future, a Russian media outlet has quoted a well-placed source of the insurgent group as saying, while a former Taliban official believed the landmark inking ceremony might take place this week. …
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AT News KABUL: A delegation from parliament is to be appointed to assess this week airstrike in Herat province’s district of Shindand in the west in which more than 60 civilians were killed. The US military launched an airstrike this week apparently against a Taliban offshoot leader Mullah Nangialay in …
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