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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces have launched a rescue operation in southern Zabul province on Monday night to free the 30 passengers (ethnically Hazaras) who were abducted by unknown armed men more than one week back, said reports on Tuesday. TOLO News quoted a number of sources as saying that …

By Dr. Florance Ebrahimi: The new Afghan government, led by President Ashraf Ghani, is faking to the Afghans that they are opening new avenues to bring peace to the war-rattled country. This time, our intellectual president has come up with a new experiment now Kabul turns to Beijing to help it …

AT-KABUL: In a well-coordinated attack, several suicide bombers on Tuesday afternoon stormed the Logar police headquarter killing at least 20 policemen and leaving eight others seriously injured. A group of four bombers, wearing police uniform, attacked the police headquarter in Pul-e-Alam, capital city of Logar province, when policemen were gathered …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Land mafia in this already troubled country has been widening its influence, day by day. The victims here also are the unfortunate civilians with no political backing. When their lands come under the attack of land mafia the hapless civilians cannot do anything but to see their …

AT-KABUL: Terming Kabul’s relations with neighboring countries as the top priority of the Afghan government, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said the other day that Kabul has maintained good relations with neighboring countries including India and is going towards positive direction in this regard. A statement emailed by the Presidential Palace …

By Mansoor Faizy Taliban blow up school, clinic in Kunar There is hardly a place they didn’t attack. To start from mosques to hospitals, from marriage halls to graveyards, from schools and clinics to markets, from roads to houses, from military barracks to foreign forces installations, there is hardly any …

Nadeem Alizai: Comment KABUL:  Officials in the public health ministry proudly provide data about cancer patients in the world but when one ask them about data regarding Afghans suffering from the deadly disease, they become down in the mouth. Absence of complete and correct data raises some serious questions such …

By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: Soon after the deadly attack on an army-run school in Peshawar on 16th December where over 130 schoolchildren were killed, Pakistan’s security apparatus started blaming Afghans for the security mess and since then Afghan refugees’ lives became hell-like. They are being harassed, detained whereas they are …

Ahmad Bin Shafar We are living in a world where climate change has evolved from a theory to a reality. From annual typhoons in the Philippines, to the flooding in North India and Pakistan earlier this year, to the recent snowstorm in the eastern United States — global warming is …

Opinion by Mir Safyan Khilji Child labor has number of definitions and different people have different concepts about the issue. However according to International Labor Organization “Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular …