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AT-KABUL: At least 15 people were killed and 35 wounded on Friday morning as a passenger bus collided with a fast-moving truck on a highway in Bakwah district of western Farah province, an official said. A passenger bus en route from Farah province to Kabul rammed into a truck, a …

AT Monitoring Desk-The Manhattan Federal Court has sentenced two Afghans to 15 and 10 years in jail over conspiring to import heroin into United States, US attorney office district New York said in a statement on Tuesday. Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New …

AT Monitoring Desk-Without naming Islamabad, India has charged Pakistan with providing safe havens to the Taliban and other terror groups responsible for violence and destruction in Afghanistan. ‘’All of us know and believe that there is no military solution to the (Afghan) issue. Yet, the Taliban, aided by their supporters, …

As we are getting near to Ashura—the climax of the remembrance of Muharram and Imam Hussain’s (A.S.) battle of Karbala, in fact a battle against injustice, it is of utmost responsibility to all Afghan masses across the country to promote interfaith harmony and cut off those evil hands that have …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The opposition will deploy ‘all possible means’ to bring electoral reforms, said Ahmad Zia Massoud on Tuesday, taking umbrage at the government for surreptitiously ‘orchestrating fraud’ in the coming parliamentary elections. “We don’t want to go for a fraudulent vote, and rather we will deploy all possible …

AT-KABUL: The ongoing fiscal year saw exports rise by 32pc compared to same stint in the preceding year, said Minister of Commerce and Industries on Tuesday, thanks to cutting-edge trade and financial initiatives of considerable scale. Addressing a press conference, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industries Ajmal Hamid Abdul Rahimzaisaid …

AT-KABUL: More than 26 terrorists belonging to the Islamic State terror group have been arrested in raids conducted by intelligence operatives in Kabul, foiling plots of disrupting the coming Ashura rituals, said National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday. They had come to Kabul from across Afghanistan and were preparing …

AT-KABUL: A large number of religious scholars called for the pullout of the alien soldiers from Afghanistan, claiming that their presence had deteriorated the country’s security situation. They said in a large gathering Tuesday in Kabul that it was impossible to reach peace at the presence of foreign forces in …

AT-KABUL: The chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah accused those who want the Afghanistan-United States bilateral security agreement be reviewed of having personal goals, saying such demands would not help for security improvement. A number of parliament members had earlier called on the government to review the security pact with the United …

AT-Kabul: Afghanistan Land Authority – ARAZI – has surveyed over 1.2 acres of state-owned land through the State Land Bank in 28 provinces of the country. A statement said the survey began on late April based on a president’s decree, and more than one million and two hundred thousand acres …