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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Turkmenistan has cut off power supply to Afghanistan’s border provinces, Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) announced on Monday. To the chagrin of residents, power supply to Herat, Faryab, Sar-i-Pul and Jawzjan was severed after Turkmenistan’s demand for doubling the electricity rate was rejected. Amanullah Ghalib, the head …

AT-KABUL: Six members of a single family embraced martyrdom after the Taliban insurgents shot them inside their home in Kohistan district of northern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. Parents and their four daughters have been shot dead, a security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity told …

AT-KABUL: Representatives of Nangarhar in Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament on Monday expressed deepest concern over ramp up insecurity in eastern Nangarhar province, asking the government to take step for solution. “Insecurity increased in Nangarhar, even governor confessed that insecurity reached to the city,” said Member of the Wolesi …

AT-KABUL: Minister of Energy and Water Ali Ahmad Osmani succeeded to satisfy members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of parliament during interpellation and remain as ministers. Minister of Energy and Water was allegedly blamed with corruption, graft, misusing authority and breaching of law during contracts of project in the …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces have foiled a deadly car bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province, a day after a terrorist attack on a funeral ceremony of ex-district chief of Haska Mina, leaving at least 18 dead and 12 others wounded. A statement issued by the provincial government’s media office, said …

AT-KABUL: Army in ground and air operation, destroyed four drug laboratories of the Taliban insurgents, in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Monday. The drug laboratories have been functional in the remote and insecure Argo district of the province, in which Afghan forces completely destroyed them, Nasratullah Jamshidi, a spokesman …

AT-KABUL: At least 18 people embraced martyrdom and 12 others received injuries on Sunday, after an explosive materials plotted in a motorbike, went off in a crowded funeral ceremony in eastern Nangarhar province, said officials. “The explosives hidden in a motorcycle, was detonated in the Moqam Khan Cemetery in Behsod …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Education on Sunday signed 14 agreements at the cost of 317 million Afs to improve education facility. According to a statement, acting education minister, Ebrahim Shinwari, said that education was the base pillar for improvement of a country, thus the ministry exert utmost efforts to run plans …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US government plans to withhold $255 million in military fund to Pakistan as Washington is skeptical the country (Pakistan) has not taken serious steps against the terror networks, particularly the notorious Haqqani terrorist network, it has been reported. The New York Times on Saturday reported that …

AT-KABUL: With no ifs and buts, the National Unity Government is committed to introduce new governor to Balkh province, a reliable government source said, adding that none is above the law. He has no right to continue as governor, the source said, adding, “No one is a sacred cow and …