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A senior politician from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has called for Islamabad to include the Afghanistan-Pakistan Highway in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Addressing a public rally in Charsadda district on Saturday, Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairperson Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao argued such a move would boost the economies of …

AT-KABUL: Seventy-one militants were killed and 39 others were received injuries in different crackdowns within past 24 hours across the country, security officials said on Saturday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense said that Afghanistan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with the Afghan National police (ANP) …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  The Afghan security forces rescued more than 100 policemen and Afghan Local Police (ALP) from the Taliban siege in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. “The rescued soldiers had been in the Taliban siege from the past 15 days in Alawuddin …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The unidentified gunmen on Saturday, shot dead a couple in eastern Kunar province, an official said. “It was overnight, when the gunmen entered into a civilian house in the Karhala village on the outskirts of Asadabad, the provincial capital, where they shot dead the couple,” provincial police …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Head of Hezb-e Jamiat-e Islami asked the government to hold the Constitutional Loya Jirga to bring amendments in the Constitution to regulate the political formation of the government. Salahuddin Rabbani, Head of Jamiat-e Islami party in a press conference on Saturday said that according to the …

AT-KABUL: Movement of Seeking Justice for War Victims on Saturday said that government should not sacrifices justice in peace dialogue with Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Party of Afghanistan). “Peace process should be followed justly, peace without justice will be not acceptable with any group,” Sami Daraee, member of the movement said. …

AT-KABUL: Seventy-nine insurgents were killed and 36 others wounded as a result of different crackdowns within past 24 hours across the country, said security officials on Monday. In a statement the Ministry of Defense said that the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) conducted clearance operations against insurgents in …

AT-KABUL: Eight fighters, loyal to the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, were killed after the Afghan Air Forces conducted an air raid in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Friday. “Daesh fighters were busy devising evil designs, when the Afghan Air Force targeted them in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  A dissident Taliban group, led by Mullah Rasoul, rejected to pledge allegiance to the new appointed group’s leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, as it had denied Mullah Akhtar Mansour who came to lead the militants after the death report of the Taliban’s founder Mullah Omar in July. Omar …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has asked the government to stop the execution of the prisoners, arguing that only the way of brotherhood and unity goes to the lasting peace and stability, his office said. “The war is imposed on us by the aliens and the killing of Taliban leader …