AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Provincial Council (PC) of eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday called on the unity government to stop Pakistan from fencing the so-called Duran Line. “If the government did not take action in the next 10 days, they would confront the Pakistani aggression with the help of masses,” …
Read More »Landmark move; Delhi sends Kabul 1st wheat shipment via Chabahar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan, Iran and India on Sunday have flagged off a shipment of 15000 tons wheat from New Delhi to Kabul through the Iranian Chabahar port. This is 1st shipment of wheat that comes to Afghanistan, connecting India to Afghanistan via seaport. Sushma Swaraj said …
Read More »54 drug traffickers arrested
AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Saturday said that 54 drug trafficker arrested in the past one month. CJTF in a press statement said that said that ten smugglers were apprehended by Counter Narcotics Police through different crackdown in various provinces and were handed over to …
Read More »US service member dies as helicopter crashes in Logar
AT-KABUL: A U.S. service member died of injuries after their helicopter crashed in Logar province, late Friday evening, the NATO-led international coalition said. “We can confirm the crash was not the result of enemy action. We have full accountability of all personnel and the crash site has been secured. Six …
Read More »NMHPRA struggling against medicine smuggling
AT-KABUL: The National Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (NMHPRA) said Saturday about the start of a campaign to fight against smuggling of medicine to the country. NMHPRA has started a campaign in Kabul today to collect the smuggled and fake medicine from the markets, said a press statement issued …
Read More »198 tons of fruit sends to India
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan since June 18 has sent 198 tons of fresh and dried fruit to India through the Afghan-India Air Corridor Program, the Office of the Senior Advisor to the President on Banking and Finance said in a statement on Saturday. The latest flight carrying at least 40 …
Read More »20 Taliban killed in Zabul
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In two separate airstrikes and a clash, at least twenty Taliban insurgents have been killed in southern Zabul province, an official said on Saturday. Fourteen Taliban were killed in overnight airstrike in the Bata Khelo area of Nawbahar district on Friday evening, Gen. Sidiqullah Saber, commander of …
Read More »US strategy messages nothing, but war continuation: Karzai
AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai emphasized that the US new strategy for Afghanistan had nothing, but the continuation of war and bloodshed. “The US with its new strategy wants to use Afghanistan as a jumping board, which has no message for Afghans, except the continuation of war,” Karzai said, speaking …
Read More »Daesh in disguise of women killed 15 Taliban in Jawzjan
By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Fighters loyal to the Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorists have killed at least 15 Taliban insurgents in north-western Jawzjan province, security officials said on Wednesday. Taliban insurgents targeted after two Daesh fighters in an unparalleled act of disguising in women Burqa, opened fire and …
Read More »Taliban suffered heavy casualties in Herat
AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces have targeted a big gathering of the Taliban insurgents in western Herat province before they could attack government controlled areas in a big offensives, in which Taliban fighters were invited from neighboring provinces as well, officials said Wednesday. Around 200 to 300 Taliban fighters, most of …
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