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AT News Report KABUL: At least 51 militants were killed and 34 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 Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

Eighteen years ago in 2000 Afghanistan had just handy post services and there were no telecommunication facilities in the Afghanistan. After the emergence of new chapter in the telecom selector in 2002 once the first ever telecommunication operator AWCC (Afghan wireless Communication Company) was permitted to deliver mobile services the …

AT News Report KABUL: Elders from three zones have warned that nobody should use the name of Pashtoon ethnicity in the presidential elections. Hajji Din Mohammad, from Nangarhar province, alleged Tuesday in a gathering in Kabul that a conspiracy was going on to encourage big tribes and ethnicities confront each …

AT News Report KABUL: The Rana Think Tank monthly participations believe that Afghanistan has once again at verge of electoral deadlock, which is not good for the country. The experts and political pundits said that Independent Election Commission (IEC) should remain independent and keep impartiality in a bid to avoid …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission has finished the process of vote recount in 15 of 34 provinces, saying that efforts are underway in another 13 provinces as well. However the IEC said the process faced opposition in six of the country’s provinces. IEC spokesman, Zabiullah Sadat told …

AT News Report KABUL: The Taliban militant group has called the release of their prisoners in exchange for the two American University instructors as a good gesture and omen to facilitate the peace talks between them and the Afghan government. According to some sources, the foreign professors were released on …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Public Health speaking at the Reaching the last Mile forum at Louvre Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, said that there is a “missing generation” of women health workers, a consequence of the Taliban’s ban on female education before the regime’s overthrow in late …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Taliban freed two Westerners they had held for more than three years on Tuesday, in exchange for the release of three senior members of the Haqqani network, the New York Times reported.  Sources told TOLOnews that the handover took place in Zabul province. Kevin King, 63, from …

AT News Report KABUL: Deputy of Chief Executive Office and a member of presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah’s team, Mohammad Mohaqiq said the presidential election has been engaged in crisis and that the situations were out of Independent Election Commission’s control.   He lambasted United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) …

“No one has the right to announce election results until disputed votes cleared” AT News Report KABUL: Presidential hopeful and leader of “Hezb-e-Islami”, a political party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused the German company “Dermalog” of working in favor of one electoral team in the voting process of Afghanistan presidential polls. …