AT News KABUL: A group of four unidentified gunmen attacked and vandalized a wedding house during a ceremony in Kalkan district of northern Kabul province, breaking the instruments of local singers and warning them not to sing anymore. Abdul Ghafoor Popalzai, Kalkan district governor of Kabul province, said the incident …
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AT News KABUL: A delegation sent to Parwan province to evaluate the food and non-food aid to the flood affected people say that the aid packages have not yet been distributed and are kept in bad condition. The delegation said Wednesday that hundreds of packs of foodstuff and other essentials …
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Paradox in the language of American officials is ruining prospects of peace talks for Afghanistan. The US special representative Zalmay Khalilzad in a brazen speech has said Afghanistan could become another Syria. His attempt was to warn the Afghan government about consequences of downplaying the Taliban in peace negotiations. That …
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AT News KABUL: Zahra Kazemi, 42, started handicrafts business 17 years ago in Bamyan, a mountainous province in the heart of Afghanistan. Ms. Kazemi now runs a small factory of handicrafts in the province, where 20 women directly and 400 others indirectly work. Ms. Kazemi says her business was very …
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AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban not to be afraid of a ceasefire, a prerequisite to what the Kabul administration deem it important for trust building measures that gives confidence to the success of the peace talks. “Don’t be afraid of a ceasefire, nobody is going …
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AT News KABUL: The US Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson urged a peace settlement that “brings about security and protects the rights of all Afghans.” He cited the remarks in a meeting with head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Shaharzad Akbar. “I discussed our shared concern about …
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AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Defense on Wednesday said it has adopted all efforts to build up security belts across Kabul and its districts. The operation would run by the Afghan National Army’s 111 divisions, the ministry said. Commander of 111 divisions, General Ramin Muqbel said that more soldiers …
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AT News KABUL: The coronavirus, a pandemic that in some way contained in Afghanistan, have taken the lives of two Afghans in the past 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry on Wednesday said another 62 Afghans have contracted the virus in this period, bringing the nation tally to 39,548 across …
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A prelude to Afghan peace talks is facing drawbacks. Negotiations continue to fall short of a deal as delegates wrangle over how to conduct the talks. All spurious excuses proffered by militants and attempts to impose conditions to subvert our objective for peace are incompatible with ground realities. More delays …
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October 7th marks the 19 years of the collapse of the Taliban’s regime. A lot has happened since then. After nearly two decades of war, the Taliban are now pushing for a return to power, having signed a landmark troop withdrawal deal with the US in February and currently holding …
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