AT News JALALABAD: An agreement earlier this year to resolve a longstanding community dispute over Nangarhar water resources has continued to foster social cohesion among formerly warring tribes. In April 2019, mediation between the Markikhil and Kadarkhil tribes in Nangarhar’s Shirzad district concluded with a unanimously adopted resolution regulating water-distribution …
Read More »‘Distrustfulness may throw peace bids into disarray’
AT News KABUL: Former Taliban envoy to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef on Tuesday hinted at the probability that peace efforts might get disrupted due to lack of trust. Zaeef wrote on his Twitter handle that peace framework tended to be fragile and thus there was always the possibility that it …
Read More »Daesh militants pose major threat in North
AT News KABUL: An official from International Committee of the Red Cross has expressed anxiety about the increase of violence in Afghanistan poses by several militant groups. The committee said the IS-K or Daesh extremist group has attracted several armed groups in northern Afghanistan and that the process is in …
Read More »Ghani to cancel HPC: Authorities
AT News KABUL: As the lawmakers have approved the establishment of the “State Ministry for Peace Affairs” authorities said on Tuesday that President Ashraf Ghani would cancel the High Peace Council- an organization that has been formed to continue the peace efforts with the Taliban militants in Afghanistan. Deputy …
Read More »Six of a family killed in Kunar roof cave-in
AT News KABUL: At least six children of a single family have been killed and six others, including women and children received injures, after their home’s floor tumble downed in eastern Kunar province, officials said Tuesday. Provincial authorities said the incident took place on Monday night in Asmar district of …
Read More »MMA fighter “Safari” returns home
AT News KABUL: Afghan Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Hussien Bakhsh Safari on Tuesday has returned home after crushing his Russian competitor. He has been warmly welcomed by the Kabul residents with marching rallies in Hamid Karzai International Airport, where his airplane has landed. On Sunday this week, Safari has …
Read More »23 drug traffickers sent behind bars
AT News KABUL: At least 23 drug runners pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and were sentenced to year behind bars in the past one week. A statement issued by the courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that four drug traffickers sentenced to16-30 years’ incarceration after examining their dossiers …
Read More »Police arrest a dangerous criminal in Kabul
AT News KABUL: Kabul police has detained a most dangerous criminal who were involved in several organized crimes in the city and suburbs. Aminullah, aka, Commander Ayan, was captured during operation conducted by Afghan national police and intelligence operatives in PD 17th on Monday night, Spokesman for Ministry of Interior, …
Read More »117 Taliban insurgents killed in fresh ops
AT News KABUL: At least 117 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 »How the new visa policy imposed by Pakistan creates hitches for Afghans?
By Ziaullah Akhtar Having been affected by the decades of turmoil and lost almost all the infrastructural institutions including hospitals, Afghans have chosen Pakistan as a cost effective and an accessible destination for treatment. Though people get convenient cure in the hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan, but still there are some …
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