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AT-KABUL: A top commander for the Taliban insurgents was killed during an operation launched by the security forces in the northern Parwan province, local security officials said Monday. “Civil Order Police has conducted a special operation in Siagerd district yesterday, killing a top commander of the Taliban identified as Mullah …

AT-KABUL: Local public health officials on Monday said no positive polio cases have been recorded in the eastern zone of the country during the past 14 months. Najibullah Kamawal, public health director for Nangarhar province, said that they would launch an anti-polio campaign in the eastern in the upcoming three …

AT-KABUL: At least two civilians were killed and six others wounded while a motorcycle and a car struck a couple of bombs placed at a roadside in southern Zabul province, local officials said Monday. Provincial governor, Gul Islam Seyal said that the blasts took place in the Shinkay and Maiwand …

By Kundhavi Kadiresan: Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) It was around this time last year that the world’s leaders came together and committed to end hunger by 2030.  The Sustainable Development Goal to achieve Zero …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During the 2nd Iran-Afghanistan joint economic exhibition, Iranian and Afghan businessmen and firms inked contracts worth $2m, Iranian Commercial attaché in Afghanistan said. Iran, Afghanistan sign $2-million contract Mohammadreza Karimzade said that over 10,000 people visited the exhibition in 4 days which was unpredictable. He noted that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Former security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta said that state-building process has failed in Afghanistan, urging powerful countries are strengthening ties with Taliban instead of the government. Giving good faces for Taliban by both the pervious and the current governments caused the international countries to legitimate Taliban and …

AT-KABUL: President Asrhaf Ghani and the US Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, who landed in Kabul on Friday in an unannounced visit, appeared before media, where Carter assured his country’s support to Afghanistan in fight against militants. US forces in Afghanistan would continue their counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan, he said, adding, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security Adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar said that the terrorists’ sanctuaries and sources of funding are beyond Afghanistan’s borders. “The terrorists’ sanctuaries and sources of funding are beyond Afghanistan’s borders, which enabled the continuation of this war,” he said in an interview with the New York …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces foiled a plot by the armed militants to attack Kabul city with rockets, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Friday. In a media statement, the ministry said two rockets were confiscated before the militants managed to fire them on the city. “The counterterrorism forces discovered …

The United States has once again expressed its concern at “safe havens” Afghan Taliban groups, including the Haqqani network, are enjoying on Pakistan’s soil. State Department Deputy spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters on Thursday the US had consistently conveyed its concerns to the highest levels of government of Pakistan. “We …