AT News KABUL: A fresh Taliban attack has killed at least 17 pro-government forces in northern Takhar province, even the group indirectly showed readiness for a ceasefire. Provincial Police Spokesman, Khalil Aseer on Sunday said the militants stormed a camp of local uprising members in Khwaja Bahauddin district late on …

AT News KABUL: After recording thousands of complains, the Independent Electoral Complaint Commission has begun probing the allegations of corruption that have been stated by several electoral teams and as well as electoral watchdogs. All of the complaints would be investigated in three days by the commission’s provincial centers across …

Violence-ridden Afghanistan has not been a safe place for its citizens, least of all the media people. According to a media watchdog and open media supporting organization (NAI), there has been a 40 percent decrease in violence towards journalists and media outlets as some 115 cases of violence – including …

AT News KABUL: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would henceforth take serious measures against air polluters on every level in compliance with the recent presidential decree, relevant officials said on Sunday. Laila Samani, spokesperson for the agency, said the alerting phase for polluters had come to an end and the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A senior Iranian official said a major railway connecting Iran and neighboring Afghanistan will be ready in March as construction of a key cross-border line is nearing completion. Abbas Khatibi, a deputy to Iran’s roads and urban development minister, said that the Iran would link up …

AT News KABUL: Religious scholars emphasize on acceleration of peace efforts, calling peace a necessity for the people of Afghanistan. In a gathering held Sunday in Kabul city, religious scholars said that only those people oppose peace process whose families are living in foreign countries. They emphasized that peace backers …

AT News KABUL: Doctors at the Indira Gandhi child hospital in Kabul have gone on strike to protest government carelessness over abduction of one of their colleagues who was kidnapped some 10 days ago. The physicians said Sunday that they had stopped visiting of patients since the past week. Dr. …

AT News KABUL: Members of parliament and political leaders criticize the government for being incurious for peace efforts, saying it is not showing readiness for the intra-Afghan negotiations. The criticisms come as the US and Taliban negotiators are to agree on a temporary cease-fire and peace deal. The lawmakers said …

AT News KABUL: A survey conducted by NAI—an organization supporting the open media in Afghanistan, has showed that journalists scrambling in getting information from the government’s spokesmen, and majority of them expressed dissatisfaction with the drift. Over 250 journalists have been interviewed in 24 provinces of the country, in which …

AT News KABUL: The human rights defenders on Sunday said that at least six civilians were killed in a joint military operation conducted by the Afghan and NATO security forces in Kapisa province. According to a statement by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, four other civilians received injuries in …