AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to provide Afghanistan with security equipment. “Increasing security cooperation suits both countries’ interests. China will continue to supply Afghanistan with security supplies, technology, equipment and training assistance,” Xi told President Ashraf Ghani during a meeting in Russia. Xi is in the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The national cricket team defeated Netherlands by 32 runs in the second qualifier match for International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty20. Afghans set a target of 163 runs from 20 overs by losing 7 wickets after Netherlands won the toss and elected to field first. Samiullah Shinware, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Minister of Interior, Noor-ul-Haq Ulomi, terrorist groups, in Afghanistan, receive support from neighboring countries. He said that drug traffickers in cooperation with some foreign hands are involved in mounting insecurity in Afghanistan’s northern. Ulomi during his trip to Afghanistan’s north said terrorist attacks’ of the Taliban …

AT-KABUL: A swarm of Taliban militants attacked three checkpoints in Ghazni province the other night killing one local policeman, wounded three others. Asadullah Ensaf, a security official in the province, confirmed the report and said that a group of Taliban insurgents, numbering 300 fighters, stormed Wada, Bakhtiar and Azad checkpoints. …

Murree, Pakistan’s lush green city, made headlines in the national and international media as the recent venue for peace negotiations between the representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban. Though, President Ashraf Ghani has been facing a hurricane of criticism at home for enlisting Pakistan’s help to bring the …

AT-KABUL: Ninety eight insurgents have been killed in ground and airstrikes in Nangarhar. A press statement released by the Nangarhar governor office police chief Fazl Ahmad Shirzad quoted him as saying that 98 insurgents from two different groups have been killed in a ground offensives and airstrikes in a number …

Representative from Taliban High Council including Haqqani network and Quetta Shura attend the Peace Talks: Din Mohammad By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan peace delegation vented its optimism on Thursday regarding the recently held peace negotiations with the representatives from the Taliban High Council including Haqqani network and Quetta Shura, held in …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) distributed food items among 1,000 deserving families in the capital on Thursday. Each and every family received 25 kilograms of rice, 50 kilograms of flour and a 5-littre can of cooking oil, C.E.O of the ACCI Mr. Atiq Ullah Nasrat told …

KABUL: On the head of a high-level delegation, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Thursday arrived in Russia to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS summits. A statement from the Presidential Palace said that the president during his two-day visit would participate in the SCO and BRICS summits. …

At last some good signs have started appearing on the political stage of the country and the region. President Ashraf Ghani is scheduled to visit Russia today to attend the Shangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS summits. Ghani is expected to ask for full membership status of the organization …