AT News KABUL: Former spymaster and presidential candidate, Rahmatullah Nabil said that “democracy has died in Afghanistan” after Independent Election Commission has declared President Ashraf Ghani as winner in the controversial 2019 Afghan election based on fake votes. Speaking in a press conference on Wednesday, he objected 300,000 controversial votes …

By Rafiullah anwari KABUL: Afghanistan Presidential Election, which was held in last September, has been looming in drastic crisis since then. The almost five-month delayed result of the election was announced Tuesday, in which incumbent President Ashraf Ghani had been declared as winner for the second term. Hours after the …

With the long-awaited final returns of the controversy and fraud-mired 2019 Presidential Election out, the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani has been declared as the winner as he narrowly secured victory in the disputed count, amassing 50.64% of the vote. His rival, Abdullah Abdullah, has been announced as the runner-up by …

AT News KABUL: After a long time dispute on Afghanistan presidential votes, the Independent Election Commission had declared Incumbent Ashraf Ghani – who is taking the position for the second term – as the winner. But the announcement has posed drastic criticism by Ghani’s top rival, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah …

AT News KABUL: At least 54 Taliban militants have been killed and 29 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Wednesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said that the Afghan …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The number of children in Afghanistan who will need humanitarian assistance in 2020 has jumped by 40 percent compared to last year, warns Save the Children, meaning an extra 1.5 million children need support to survive. “In 2020, an additional 3.1 million people will need help, …

AT News KABUL: As the US and Taliban are getting close to forge a peace agreement that can pave the ground for foreign troops draw down and facilitation of direct negotiation between Afghan government and Taliban, a Presidential Palace advisor has said there is a problem with the term “intra-Afghan-talks”, …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an airstrike conducted by the the US military in the western province of Herat. The strike targeted a vehicle in the Rabat Sangi area, killing civilians including women and children. Karzai expressed deep concerns over rising violence and civilian casualties amid …

AT News KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission confirmed the existence of a “child abusing circle” in Logar province by releasing the summary of a report titled ‘Probe of sexual abuse in schools in Logar province’. The report comes after two civil society activists revealed school boys are sexually abused …

AT News KABUL: Police in the southern province of Uruzgan accuse Iran of assisting arms to the Taliban, claiming that the Islamic Republic had lately provided the insurgents with air defense rockets. Sardar Mohammad Haya, provincial police chief said Tuesday that: “Iran has given them (Taliban) rockets that can target …