Professor Klaus Schwab, Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to come back and meet with all of you in this beautiful city of Dalian. On behalf of the Chinese government, I would like to offer warm congratulations …
Read More »Taliban truck bomb killed 12 in southern Afghanistan
KABUL- A Taliban truck bombing in southern Ghazni province today morning killed 12 people and injured another 179 citizens, most of them school children, officials said. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden mini-truck today morning around 8:30am near one of the facilities of the National Directorate of Security …
Read More »Ghani’s campaign prematurely: FEFA
AT News Report KABUL: The Free and Fair Electoral Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) says President Ashraf Ghani has started prematurely campaign for presidential elections. The forum said Wednesday that Ghani’s provincial visits, new appointments and speeches in gatherings are all considered as prematurely campaign. But the presidential office says that …
Read More »Taliban’s big ammunition cache seized in Helmand
AT News Report KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Wednesday said that its special unit service members killed seven insurgents and discovered and confiscated a big ammunition cache of Taliban during operation in southern Helmand province. A statement issued by NDS, said that intelligence operatives special unit conducted …
Read More »Returnees facing challenges at home: survey finds
AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations Human Rights Council said on Wednesday despite an improvement on living condition for returnees in the country; they still face tremendous social, economical and security difficulties. “In 2018, some 15,699 refugees returned home under the UNHCR’s facilitating voluntary repatriation program, with the majority …
Read More »First ever solar power network activated in Kandahar
AT News Report KABUL: President, Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday inaugurated the first ever solar electricity network the southern province of Kandahar. The network was put in utilization in the Daman district and Ghani officially opened it during his visit to the province. The solar system has two phases and produces …
Read More »Karzai: Terrorism grew in Afghanistan by US finance, ambiguous policies
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai on Wednesday reacted to statements by the US President Donald Trump about the situation of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. “Afghanistan is not the laboratory of terrorists, but a victim of terrorism, that grew with the US funding and ambiguous policies,” Karzai …
Read More »Ballot papers for presidential polls to be printed in Denmark, IEC says
AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has chosen Denmark for printing the ballot papers for the September presidential elections, an official at the commission said on Wednesday, adding that counterfeiting the ballots would be impossible. Zabihullah Sadaat, a spokesman for the commission, said that the number of …
Read More »Taliban’s alms collector arrested in Ghor
AT News Report KABUL: Police attested Taliban’s alms (zakat, Islamic charity) collector during an operation in western Ghor province. A key Taliban group member who was involved in collecting alms from people to fund the operations of the group, was arrested after Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted an operation in …
Read More »Afghan government, some politicians not to attend Doha meeting
AT News Report KABUL: The government and some political leaders have said they would not attend a meeting scheduled to be held as an ‘intra-Afghan dialogue’ with Taliban representatives on Sunday and Monday in Doha. Germany and Qatar are going to host the meeting welcomed by the United States that …
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