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AT News Report-KABUL: A large heroin production facility belonging to the Taliban insurgents was destroyed and at least 8 terrorists were killed after the U.S. coalition forces staged a drone strike in Farah province, said a local police official on Saturday. According to the provincial police chief, the airstrikes were …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan will facilitate the repatriation of all Afghan refugees living in Pakistan within the next two years. At a ceremony marking 29th anniversary of withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani unveiled a plan to repatriate all Afghan refugees from Pakistan in the coming …

AT News Report-KABUL: Washington supports the Kabul process, and Tashkent conference, the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Alice G. Wells assured Afghan National Security Adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar in a meeting in Kabul. The two sides also talked about the bilateral relationships and the Afghan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: US international forces commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson during his trip to western Farah province has said implementation of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project and construction of Bakhshabad Dam would help bring positive changes to the province. Nicholson traveled to Farah late on Thursday for assessing security situation …

AT News Report-KABUL: Scores of state and private lands have been usurped by powerful individuals and government officials, but those lands will be reclaimed from land mafia. President Ashraf Ghani assured of retaking usurped lands from land-grabbers, and will legally distribute lands to all citizens. “Public treasury belongs to the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan ambassador to the United States has reacted to a recent statement released by the Taliban insurgents, in which they called for dialogue to end the war. In a letter addressed to the Americans, the Taliban said that they wanted to end Afghanistan’s 17-year war through …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Kabul Process scheduled for February 28 will serve as a platform for the international community to support Afghan efforts to achieve security, peace and reconciliation, and economic development, the US said. “We look forward to that process because we see it as a way to reiterate …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The International Criminal Court has received a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims, since the court started collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported. The statements include accounts of alleged atrocities not …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said, Taliban has to understand that they will never win on the battlefield urged them to come to the negotiating table and agree to a political solution. The secretary general said this while talking to media in a press conference on …

AT News Report-KABUL: The long-awaited distribution of the Electronic National Identity Cards (e-NICs) is going to kick off in the upcoming two days by inauguration of some key officials, it has been reported. President Ashraf Ghani, Second Vice President, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, and First Lady Bibi Gul have completed biometric …