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AT-KABUL: At least 171 militants have been killed and 126 more wounded in past day after Afghan defense forces assailed the militant strongholds across several regions. The joint offensives were supported by aerial bombardments. Afghan army in close cooperation with the police and intelligence officers have conducted crackdown offensives to …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Office has warned the Taliban militants to join the peace parleys or they would face elimination. The tough statement came after Taliban rejected a religious scholars’ meeting in Indonesia. The meeting initiated by Indonesian government, was scheduled to be held this month with over 50 clerics …

AT-KABUL: Senators announced their support for the recent peace proposal of President Ashraf Ghani to the Taliban over peace talks. President Ghani said last week that his administration was ready to have unconditional talks with the Taliban representatives. He said that the talks could take place everywhere inside the country …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Political analysts and experts at the Rana Think Thank monthly session on Tuesday expressed concerns over the ongoing crisis in the country and said that Afghanistan’s mines are the only solution to the political and economic woes and could help the country in reaching peace. Experts believed …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Pashtun Protection Movement on Sunday held a big public gathering in Quetta, capital city of Baluchistan province, against state sponsored terrorism, military atrocities and human rights violations, racial profiling and demanded immediate recovery of more than 32, 000 missing Pashtuns for the past 15 years. The …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan needs to be more serious about fighting drugs after an alarming 63 percent increase in opium cultivation this year, the U.N. drugs agency said on Sunday, warning that Afghanistan is still the “biggest poppy producing country in the world”. A report of the UN International Narcotics Control Board …

AT-KABUL: After a vote in the parliament on Sunday, Humayun Humayun was elected as the first deputy speaker of the Lower House of the parliament, but another election is in the offing for the designation of second speaker and secretary of the lower house. A day earlier, the lower house …

Kabul: The French Medical Institue for Mothers and Children (FMIC) held its third graduation ceremony of the postgraduate medical education programme (PGME) on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at FMIC in Kabul.Afghanistan’s first women doctor specializing in radiology is among the 12 doctors awarded certificates of specialization by Dr Bashir Noormal, …

AT-KABUL: The United States has called on the Taliban to accept President Ashraf Ghani’s recent peace suggestion and put an end to the war. “President Ghani’s suggestion for unconditional talks with Taliban is more clear and certain than any other suggestions in the past,” said Alice Wells, deputy assistant secretary …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An upcoming conference of religious scholars from Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan to be hosted by Indonesia, aimed at seeking a solution to the imposed war in Afghanistan has been opposed by Taliban. Contributing to the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, the role of Ulema and influence of …