AT News Report KABUL: Local officials in eastern Kunar province said Monday that at least three Afghan women have been killed and four others, including a child wounded in thePakistani shelling from other side of the Durand Line. Provincial Governor’s Spokesman, Abdul Ghani Musamem said the shelltargeted a residential house …
Read More »US top negotiator Khalilzad arrives in Islamabad: Sources
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United States negotiator for Afghan peace has arrived in the Pakistani capital on Monday, Pakistan media reported. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, reached Islamabad via a special jet from Pakistan’s western neighbouring nation to meet with top officials involved in Kabul …
Read More »Eight officials of Kabul Airport arrested on charge of smuggling
AT News Report KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said it arrested eight officials in the Kabul International Airport on charge of smuggling. The intelligence agency said Monday in a statement that the arrested people were members of a smuggling network. “These people were arrested at a time that …
Read More »Electoral observers warn postponement in result announcement could cause crisis
AT News Report KABUL: The electoral observers warn that any postponement in the announcement of the presidential election’s preliminary results could cause political crisis. The preliminary results of the September 28 presidential election was scheduled to be announced on October 19, but the independent election commission failed to announce it …
Read More »MPs say peace leadership holders are based in abroad
AT News Report KABUL: The members of parliament claim that peace leadership is held by individuals whose families are in abroad, referring to some members of the high peace council as well as officials in the state ministry for peace. The lawmakers said in the parliament’s Monday session that the …
Read More »‘Over 350,000 displaced by conflict since January’
AT News Report KABUL: Over 350,000 people have been displaced by conflict across war-torn Afghanistan during the current year so far, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). According to the OCHA’s data, overall, 354,664 people were displaced in 31 of the total of 34 provinces …
Read More »Nangarhar school blast leaves two dead
AT News Report KABUL: At least two construction workers have embraced martyrdom and five others received injuries after a mine detonated in an under construction school in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, official said. A mine placed by the enemy went off in a school, in which …
Read More »Politicians want peace efforts be intensified
AT News Report KABUL: A number of Afghan politicians are believing that efforts of the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to achieve political settlement is moving very slow. Khalilzad was in Kabul recently, and held meetings with top Afghan officials to discuss the Afghan peace process. He …
Read More »Abdullah emphasizes on clean votes
AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Monday has said that people expect the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the result of presidential election based of clean votes. Addressing council of ministers’ session, Abdullah said “we are at the doorsill of assessment of election votes, so we …
Read More »63 militants killed in latest ops
AT News Report KABUL: At least 63 militants were killed and 19 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 on Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …
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