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AT News Report KABUL: At least 55 militants have been killed and three 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 Saturday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

AT Monitoring Desk   KABUL: The Afghan government is pursuing Indonesia’s support to attain gender equality and sustainable peace in the country. “Quality and effectiveness are indicators of sustainability. When you get quality assistance, nothing can destroy it,” Afghan Minister of Information and Culture Hasina Safi remarked during the opening …

AT News KABUL: Lawmakers slammed President Ashraf Ghani for going to the US military base out of Kabul to meet the country’s president Donald Trump, calling it an “insult to all Afghans”. Trump landed at the Bagram air base in a sudden visit to Afghanistan on Thursday where he attended …

The term ‘Leadership’ is broadly defined as the relation between an individual and a group built around some common interest and behaving in a manner directed or determined by him. The relation of leadership arises only where a group follows an individual from free choice and not under command or …

Indeed, the Afghan masses have become fed up with the ongoing deadly war. They are bearing the brunt of this imposed war for many years. To end this, the Afghans are hopeful that a peace deal between the Taliban and the U.S. will bring them a step closer to the …

AT News KABUL: At least 15 civilians, all of them guests of a wedding party, were killed and two more were injured on Wednesday afternoon in northeastern Kunduz province, after their car, they were travelling in, was hit by a roadside bomb planted by the militants. The incident occurred at …

AT News Report KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) authorities on Wednesday said that it would soon announce the preliminary results of the presidential election without recounting the votes of seven problematic provinces. The vote recount and audit process was launched by IEC on November 9 in 34 provinces of …

AT News KABUL: Health officials in central Uruzgan province said that over 70 percent of children who need to receive anti-polio vaccination were disappeared during vaccination campaign due to Taliban’s threats to the organization in the province. The campaign was launched for three days aiming for 50,000 children to be …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghanis’ first running mate, Amrullah Saleh has earlier claimed that he found out voice messages, in which the Hazaras nations have been insulted and humiliated by some members of “Stability and Partnership” electoral teams, led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. But, some members of the …

By Zakia Wardak The government of Afghanistan will meet the Taliban in Beijing, China, for peace talks. This is not the first such international summit — in the past, representatives (in their private capacity) from both sides have met in Qatar, Norway and Russia. But despite all these engagements, little …