AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Contrary to Pakistan army claims, the CIA Chief has said that the US-Canadian couple kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, but they were held inside Pakistan for five years before being freed. CIA Chief’s remark has been doing round in media while it is for the first …

‘US will do everything it can to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table in Afghanistan, but Pakistan must first deny the militants a safe haven on its soil’ AT Monitoring Desk: KABUL: CIA Director, Mike Pompeo said that the United States will do everything it can to bring the Taliban …

The US uses the Islamic State insurgency as a tool in Afghanistan, aimed at destabilizing the whole region, the former Afghan president told RT, urging the international community to convince the US that it needs to actually fight terrorism. No action was taken against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists …

“The Pashtuns of Pakistan and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan have not only ethnic kinship, but also historical bond, and to pursue the policy of erecting a wall along the Durand Line wouldn’t be any different than the “Wall of Berlin”, which was created in Germany, says Pakistan’s former ambassador to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The People’s Republic of China has condemned in strongest terms the recent terrorist attacks in various parts of the country carried out by Taliban insurgents that took lives of at least 71 people and 170 others wounded, a China official said. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Lu Kang …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: More than 30 Taliban militants have been killed by the brave Afghan security forces last night (Friday night) in violent clashes and airstrikes carried out in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, where conflict has been entered a third day, an official said. Late on Wednesday night, …

AT-KABUL: At least 70 worshipers were “martyred” and 55 others injured Friday evening in two separate suicide attacks against mosques in capital Kabul and western Ghor province, officials said. In western Ghor province a suicide bomber at 5:00pm targeted worshipers inside the Khwajagan village mosque in Dulayna district of the …

Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world because literacy program has been failed as at least 60 percent of Afghan masses are illiterate. Afghan male and female both have been marred from going to school at some stages. The high variation between male and female literacy …

AT-KABUL: Afghan National Association for Adult Education (ANAFAE) has implemented a 20 days’ basic literacy training workshop for facilitators and supervisors in Shahrak-e- Itefaq of Kabul City. According to a statement this training workshop was run in cooperation with the Ministry of Education Literacy Department and financial support of WHH. The …

AT-KABUL: At least 43 Afghan National Army (ANA) have been killed and nine others received injures after Chashmawi camp attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday after midnight. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed the attack, saying the militants first exploded its vehicle-borne improvised explosive device , …