AT News KABUL: Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) has found out that over three million Afghan children have been deprived of education – nearly 60 percent of them are girls due to several challenges in the country. Based on a report, over 7, 000 young students with girls …
Read More »6 civilians killed in foreign forces airstrike in Kapisa
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: At least six people, including a child and two women, have been killed during a foreign forces’ airstrike in central Kapisa province, a well-placed source confided on Wednesday, whereas the US forces said a probe was ongoing in this regard. A source, speaking on condition of …
Read More »Promoting products at Kabul trade expo
AT News KABUL: Talent Marketing Solution Services (TMSS) in joint venture with Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) has launched three days exhibition to support and promote Afghan goods in Kabul. The exhibition titled “Aleest Afghanist” (Afghan products are the best) launched for three days in Serena hotel in …
Read More »Saffron harvest at record high, 22% rise
AT News KABUL: Afghan authorities say that Afghanistan’s saffron production has been increased to 22 percent comparing to the last year. Recently Afghanistan saffron has been recognized as the best in the world in terms of its quality for the eight consecutive years. “Last year’s saffron corps was 16 tons, …
Read More »114 Taliban rebels killed in fresh ops
AT News KABUL: At least 114 Taliban militants have been killed and 24 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 Wednesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »Solar power project work halted in Ghor
AT News KABUL: Officials, provincial council and residents in Ghor province say that work on the solar power project had been stopped for seven months, due to unknown reasons. The project was to provide five mega watts of electricity to residents of the least developed province surrounded by high mountains …
Read More »Qatar calls for an end to violence in Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: Doha has emphasized on reduction of violence in Afghanistan and vowed that the ongoing war should be resolved through negotiations and talks. Qatar’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Doha wants the Afghanistan conflicts be solved by discussion. The country has condemned the attack that has …
Read More »Government borrows 30 billion Afs from Central Bank
AT News KABUL: The government has borrowed 30 billion Afs from the Cetnral Bank, members of parliament claimed. The parliamentarians said Tuesday that 15 billion Afs of the borrowed money was transferred to the ministry of finance and another nine billion Afs was being transferred. A source in the parliament …
Read More »A runoff likely in Afghanistan’s high-stakes presidential race
AT News KabuL: Afghanistan’s tight presidential race is increasingly likely to go to a runoff vote amid thousands of complaints challenging the initial returns that indicated the incumbent president Ashraf Ghani had won the office, according to complaints election authorities. With all the ballots counted including 300,000 controversial ones, state …
Read More »Authorities scramble to combat severe air pollution
AT News KABUL: National Bureau of Environment Protection has said that the private residential towns and industrial factories, which are lack of standard system, posing air pollution, would be fined 25,000 Afs per week. The Bureau has given nearly one week deadline to the commercial industries and residential towns to …
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