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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AT News KABUL: Representatives from western province of Herat in the parliament said Saturday they had reliable reports that the US military planned to leave their base stationed in the Shindand district near Iranian border. The legislators warned that the Daesh terrorist group would likely use the vacuum and get …
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Afghanistan has joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) after 41 years, according to the education ministry. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said Afghanistan’s scout movement is WOSM’s 171st member and will be entitled to all its rights and privileges. “Afghanistan’s scouting members will be participating …
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AT News KABUL: Saffron is considered as one of the world’s most expensive spices as it is largely cultivated and harvested by hands requiring a vast amount of labor for its harvesting and on-farm processing. Saffron stigma and corm are used in cooking for color and delicate flavoring, perfume and …
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Tensions are mounting between Afghanistan’s two election commissions over the complaints tribunal’s decision to recount ballots from 2,555 polling stations after a sweeping audit, further ratcheting up the post-election turmoil. The independent election commission and the complaints commission remain at an impasse over whether to conduct a recount on constituencies …
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AT News KABUL: The Lower House of the Parliament or Wolesi Jirga on Saturday voiced grave concern over recent tragic events where three Afghanistan National Army (ANA) choppers fell out of the sky, saying a probe should be launched into these incidents and the reason behind them ascertained. According to …
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