AT News KABUL: After hundreds of religious scholars from northern Jawzjan province, on Saturday dozens of scholars from Baghlan has called for ceasefire between the afghan government and the Taliban to end the deadly war. They called on the warring parties to put an end to the ongoing war and …
Read More »‘Suraya Parlika’ women rights defender dies
AT News KABUL: A prominent Afghan woman rights defender, Suraya Parlika has passed away due to cancer disease at the age of 75 in Swiss. She was born in 1323 (Afghan Calendar) in Bagrami district of capital Kabul. She had completed her BBA in Kabul University and taken her Master …
Read More »Initial election results likely on Saturday
AT News KABUL: After a long time dispute between the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and presidential candidates over votes recounting process, some sources in the commission said Saturday that the preliminary results may be announced Sunday. The sources, who wished to go unnamed, said that all necessary preparations have been …
Read More »Parliament criticizes ‘arbitrary operations’ launched by government forces
AT News KABUL: The parliamentarians criticize what they call “arbitrary operations” launched by government forces in different provinces, saying the operations were going on despite a presidential order for stop. They said in the Saturday session of parliament that the operations only kill and injure civilians. The Special Forces unit …
Read More »Celebration of antique night (Yalda) in Herat
AT News KABUL: Although the longest decades of war in Afghanistan has made the Afghans to overlook the practical holidays and ceremonies, a number of families in western Herat province have came together to celebrate the “Yalda Night”- the longest night of the year and an ancient holiday in Afghanistan. …
Read More »US won’t leave Afghanistan alone until terrorist groups are crushed
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The US Defense Minister Mark Esper assured his country’s presence in Afghanistan to make sure the country won’t return into terrorism nest. “US will not leave Afghanistan alone until the complete defeat of terrorist groups, and we will continue till we reach this goal.” This comes …
Read More »Use of foreign currency, especially Pakistani rupees banned in Nangarhar
AT News KABUL: The use of foreign currency, especially the Pakistani rupees, has been utterly banned in eastern Nangarhar province. The development made after a week of campaign against using of foreign currency, particularly the Pakistani rupees. From today (Sunday) all the transaction would take place in the Afghani currency …
Read More »57 militants killed in fresh ops
AT News KABUL: At least 57 Taliban militants have been killed and 18 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 Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
Read More »Agree to truce before peace deal: US asks Taliban
AT News KABUL: Sources privy to the Taliban group have said that the American officials have pressured the Taliban to agree to a ceasefire, as well as intra-Afghan talks, prior the peace deal. However, the Taliban’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen has once again emphasized that the insurgent group wouldn’t participate in …
Read More »Editorial: Strengthen water diplomacy!
Afghanistan has many natural resources, especially in terms of water and mines, but they haven’t been tapped effectively so far. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran have a long history of conflict over scarce water resources – largely over Afghanistan’s infrastructure-building on the Helmand and Kabul rivers despite it’s a legitimate right and …
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