AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday in an interview with international news agency AFP called President Ghani’s “7-Point Peace Plan” an unrealistic “Wish List.” Ghani’s team last month released a seven-point proposal outlining a way to end the war in Afghanistan. “To be honest, nobody has …
Read More »ISI’s summoning Afghan envoy against diplomatic norms: Senators
AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan Senate on Tuesday have criticized the government of Pakistan and its Inter-Service Intelligence “ISI” for summoning the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, saying that such acts are in contrast with the international and diplomatic norms. On, Monday the Pakistan intelligence agency summoned Afghan ambassador to …
Read More »Taliban, Daesh are not separate: Khalid
AT News Report KABUL: Afghan defense minister Asadullah Khalid said countries, including Pakistan that supporting terrorist groups to continue the flame of war in Afghanistan, should have realize that ‘terrorism has no boundaries’ and that it would engender them one day. In an interview with VoA, Khalid said that Taliban …
Read More »Clearing ops conducted in Paghman
AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have conducted clearing raids in Paghman district of capital Kabul, where they killed at least three militants and seized a number of weapons and ammunitions. The Ministry of Defense in a statement said the operation was conducted on Tuesday morning in Arghandi …
Read More »180k returnee, IDP children gain access to education
AT News Report KABUL: Ministry of Education (MoE) said it has granted over 180,000 returnee and Internal Displaced People (IDP)’s children with education facility across the country this year. MoE through its education working group with the financial support of domestic and international organizations has provided education facilities to 184,749 …
Read More »24 drug traffickers sent behind bars
AT News Report KABUL: At least 24 drug runners have been sentenced to years behind bars in the past one week after they were found guilty for drug trafficking. Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) in a statement said on Tuesday that 24 drug traffickers sentenced to10-30 years’ incarceration after examining …
Read More »25 militants killed in raids
AT News Report KABUL: At least 25 militants were killed and six 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 (ANA) …
Read More »Karzai condemns drone attacks on Paktia, Baghlan
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned drone attacks on the Aryoub district of Paktia province and Dand-e-Shahaboddin district of Baghlan province, which inflicted casualties to civilians. Karzai denounced in a statement any military operations against civilians as inhumane and against Islamic principles. He reiterated demands to …
Read More »Kabul protests ISI’s misbehavior with Ambassador Mashal
AT News Report KABUL: The Pakistani Embassy in Kabul on Monday announced the closure of its consular section for an indefinite period due to alleged safety and harassment concerns to its diplomatic personnel while the Afghan foreign ministry said it will probe Pakistan’s complaints in this regard. Meanwhile, the Ministry …
Read More »Election conundrum: Some 300,000 fraudulent votes still in biometric data
AT News Report KABUL: Presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah’s electoral team claim that more than 300,000 fake votes were in the independent election commission’s data center that needed to be canceled. Noor Rahman Akhlaqi, a member of Abdullah’s electoral team said Monday that that 112,000 votes that were saved after official …
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