AT News Report KABUL: An Afghan journalist died in hospital on Wednesday of wounds suffered from a planted bomb blast that also killed four other civilians, including a child in PD 14 of Kandahar city, officials said Wednesday. Afghanistan Journalists Safety Committee said Abdul Hamid Hotaki from Hiwad radio succumbs …
Read More »Helmand residents protest civilian casualties
AT News Report KABUL: Hundreds of people in the southern province of Helmand took to the streets of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah on Tuesday to protest government force operations that killed and injured tens of civilians. Some 40 civilians including women and children were killed at the attack that …
Read More »Contract signed for copper mine extraction
AT News Report KABUL: The extraction project of one the biggest copper mine’s in western Herat province, was signed with a private construction company with an amount of 21.3 million US dollar initial investment. The company received the documents of the mines by senior officials, acting minister of finance Mohammad …
Read More »Stoltenberg, Khalilzad discuss stalled Afghan peace talks
AT News Report KABUL: The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has held talks regarding Afghan peace process with the US Special Representative, Zalmay Khalilzad, a statement said Tuesday. The meeting took place at the beginning of the UN General Assembly gathering in New York, said the statement, adding that both …
Read More »Pak’s Khan says Durand is imaginary line, no border
AT News Report KABUL: Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan has said that the Durand Line was drawn by the British colonialists as an imaginary line and there is no border. Speaking in a session in New York, Khan however, did not specify that Durand Line was not unofficial border crossing, …
Read More »Six al-Qaida terrorists among 22 killed in NDS operation
AT News Report KABUL: At least 22 militants, including six al-Qaida members were killed in National Directorate of Security operatives’ raids in Musa Qala district of southwestern Helmand province, security officials said Tuesday. “The al-Qaida terrorists came from Waziristan, Chaman, and Peshawar,” said NDS in a statement. The NDS added …
Read More »Pak’s Khan admits his country trained terrorists to fight in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: In an interview at the Council Foreign Relations in New York on Monday, the Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan confessed that his country’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) had trained al-Qaida and other terrorist groups to fight in Afghanistan. It has been an undeniable fact that Pakistani army …
Read More »Civilian casualties soaring
At least 89 people have been killed in several suicide attacks in recent week with the latest one in which 40 civilians were killed was in Helmand’s wedding party KABUL: At least 40 civilians attending a wedding were killed Sunday night when Afghan military forces struck against a Taliban hideout …
Read More »China vigorously promotes peace, reconciliation process in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: China has reiterated support to the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process, saying Beijing vigorously promotes peace, and reconciliation process in Afghanistan. Speaking in an event in Kabul to celebrate 70th, Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Daxue, Charge’ d’Affairs of the Chinese …
Read More »Three foreign troops wounded in Afghan police attack
AT News Report KABUL: An Afghan police officer opened fire at a convoy of foreign forces on Monday afternoon in southern Kandahar province, injuring at least three soldiers, the Resolute Supports said in a statement. According to the statement, the attacker was killed in the fire return by the Resolute …
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