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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) on Monday said retired government servants would receive their salaries online once the biometric system was set in motion. Funding the salaries of retired government servants, the MoLSAMD has allocated 10 billion afghanis. The MoLSAMD spokesman …

AT-KABUL: The process of the Afghan migrants’ repatriation from Pakistan would begin in March, the ministry of refugees and repatriates said Monday, urging it should be voluntarily. “The process was delayed for three months and it would restart after a few days. We welcome the repatriates and the process is …

AT-KABUL: The distribution of the electronic identity cards is awaiting President Ashraf Ghani’s order, the population registration department said, urging that the process would not kick off until the president sanctions it. The president and the first lady registered for biometric cards two weeks ago, but the ID cards are …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A dialogue between Afghanistan and Islamabad has been kicked in Islamabad on Monday in which a 12-member Afghan delegation has participated. The three-day dialogue between Afghanistan and Pakistan, jointly organized by the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) and the UK-based Safeworld, is an effort …

AT-KABUL: Foundation of Hamid Karzai marked 90th anniversary of late professor and academician Abdul Ahmad Jawid in Kabul on Monday, with the participation of scores of Afghan political and cultural officials, tribal elders and university lecturers. A prominent contemporary cultural author of Afghanistan, Professor Jawid was born in 1926 in …

AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan handed over the management of the Afghan-Turk school to the Turkish government, a move that was followed by large reaction of the students’ parents. The Afghan-Turk school that is active in Afghanistan for about two decades, has been recently problematic as Ankara has frequently asked …

AT-KABUL: Brushing away the claims of the Russian government over the empowering of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, a U.S. top military official called on Moscow and Tehran to prop up its assistance to the Afghan government instead of the Taliban insurgents. Russia has claimed the number of Daesh …

AT-KABUL: The High Peace Council has welcomed the upcoming conference on Afghan peace process in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as important for the reconciliation process. Representatives from the regional countries as well as other countries are to attend the conference, discussing solution ways for the ongoing war. “As the Central Asian countries …

AT-KABUL: A multi-city massive demonstration against the central government which had been planned by the ousted Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor has been called off. Turning national interest above all, he said the core reason behind postponed in protests is the upcoming Kabul Process conference. However, added that he and …

AT-KABUL: Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a congested road in North Kabul, killing a former senator and his driver on Sunday, said officials. An spokesperson of the Kabul police, Basir Mujahid, told Afghanistan Times that unknown armed men killed former senator Gul Afghan along with his driver, when they were …