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By Maqsood Rezayee  In developing and developed countries, cities are facing rapid urbanization. Rapid urbanization is accentuating urban challenges, mostly leading to urban sprawl, uncontrolled and unmanaged development of cities, and development of informal settlement. Afghanistan is not exempt, where the rapid urbanization impacted large cities of Afghanistan with the …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan is seeing a rebound in Taliban violence and an exacerbation of fighting as the country is nearing a crucial peace dialogue with the militant Taliban. Following a short lull in the war and Eid-al Fitr ceasefire, the Afghan government floated speculations that the ceasefire would continue …

AT News KABUL: More than 6.5 million Afghans are refugees overseas as the conflict continues to drive the refugee crisis. Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has said that over 6,500,000 million Afghans are refugees overseas, with an overwhelming majority settling in Iran and Pakistan. On the occasion of the world refugee …

AT News KABUL: Sima Samar, state minister for human rights and international relations is feared that the Taliban prisoners recently released by the government would likely retake arms and start fighting against the government troops. She says that the government lacked a mechanism to prevent Taliban from returning to war …

AT News KABUL: The deadly coronavirus has overshadowed negotiations expected to be held between President Ashraf Ghani’s administration and the Taliban to end the longstanding war, NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative for Afghanistan, Stefano Pontecorvo said. “A number of members of government and Taliban negotiating teams have been infected with the …

The progress in the peace process in Afghanistan has been promising recently. Thousands of prisoners have been released by the Afghan government and the Taliban, a move that contributed to somewhat trust-building among the warring sides. Reports of the possible launch of intra-Afghan talks by the end of June are …

AT News KABUL: The dead bodies of the two young girls were found in Jabal-Siraj district of Parwan province, officials said on Saturday. Provincial Governor Spokeswoman, Wahida Shahkar said that the corpses were found on Friday evening in Taglar village of Jabl-Siraj.  The motive behind the incident is unclear, she …

AT News KABUL: With 546 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Afghanistan now has 28,424 cases across the country since the outbreak of the virus started around three months ago. The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday said that 1,459 suspected samples were tested in which …

AT News KABUL: At least nine Taliban insurgents were killed and three others wounded after reprisal by the Afghan security forces after their security check points were came under attack in eastern Logar province on Friday night, officials said on Saturday. The Taliban militants had coordinately attacked the Afghan National …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed deepest sorrows for the death of Aziz Ahmad, who used to serve as the head of office for the Father of Nation Late King Zaher Shah. Karzai remembered Ahmad as “a very dear and old friend”, saying that he was a polite, …