AT News KABUL: Pakistan has stopped ground shipments of export cargos from Afghanistan into its port of Waga – a ratcheting up of Pakistan’s transit pressure to have hit Afghan exporters for several times, a government spokesman said Monday. “Several cargo trucks carrying fruits headed to India have been sent …

AT News KABUL: A Pashtun young politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Manzoor Pashteen – the man leading protests accusing Pakistan’s army of human rights abase, has been arrested for alleged criminal conspiracy and sedition. Pashteen was taken into custody along with nine others from his base …

AT News KABUL: Amid painstaking negotiations in Qatar to broker a peace deal, the Ministry of Defense has said the military is ramping up operations to counter an increase in Taliban attacks which are inflicting heavy losses to the belligerents. Defense authorities have said that a bevy of counterinsurgency raids …

While efforts for inking a peace agreement and observing a ceasefire with the Taliban by the US are on, the constant victimization of Afghan mere mortals is still raging on. A recent horrible incident that happened in northern Balkh province has resulted in the killing of seven people from a …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan leaders have been engaged in forging a comprehensive and single peace plan to galvanize the process of peace talks and also feasible and comprehensible in facilitating Afghan-to-Afghan talks once peace deal is brokered between the United States and the Taliban, said a former government official …

By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Ministry of Public Health – in cooperation with the Ministries of Justice, Interior and Attorney General Office – launched on Sunday the first ever DNA and forensic laboratory complex along with a training center in Kabul, which is expected to help tackle crime. Chief Executive Abdullah …

Afghanistan already has a host of viruses to battle against – ranging from the Polio to the Congo virus – and its deficient and scanty healthcare system cannot afford new infections at a time when a new strain of coronavirus is making headlines and spreading panic around the world. According …

AT News KABUL: Anger has simmered in Balkh province after Afghan forces purportedly killed six civilians in an airstrike. Hundreds of residents in Balkh province on Sunday marched in the streets to protest the killing of six civilians including women and children who they claimed were killed in a pre-dawn …

AT News KABUL: Attorney General Office has said seven people have been arrested in connection with investigations into serious misconduct allegations against schoolchildren in southeastern province of Logar that has made headlines. The sex scandal rocking boys’ schools over past months in Logar which has escalated into a full-blown investigation …

AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Ministry has talked about evacuation of 62 Afghan students from Wuhan city of China – the state which is epicenter of deadly coronavirus and is quarantined by the authorities to avoid the contagiousness of the virus to the foreign state and countries. The …