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KABUL: An explosion, possibly suicide attack, has been reported near to Afghan Border Police HQ in west of Kabul city today afternoon. Eyewitnesses in the area say the explosion took place in front of the Afghan Border Police on the main street in which a number of people have been …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A Taliban commander, Sayed Hashim Hashemi, in a video footage ostensibly to be recorded in Faryab province, accused the Taliban’s new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor of plotting the murder of Mullah Omar. After the death report of Mullah Omar, differences emerged among the Taliban leaders. The group …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah is planned to leave for India today (Sunday) to attend a counterterrorism conference scheduled to be held in Jaipur on Tuesday. An Indian news agency reported that Abdullah will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Asking the government for proactive state policies carried out in collaboration with private sector, the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Saturday said that private sector was facing a variety of challenges in the country. The private sector includes such services as education, health, agriculture, mines …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that the Taliban’s shadow judge and mayor for Darqad district were arrested along with 12 militants in northern Takhar province. In a press statement issued here, the NDS said that its operatives managed to arrest the Taliban’s shadow judge, mayor …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) on Saturday said that in collaboration with the Supreme Court it has started registration of marriage and distribution of marriage certificate in order to protect women’s rights. “In order to reduce violence against women, the ministry is taking steps to register all …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Lt. Gen. John Nicholson who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the new US forces commander in Afghanistan, says that the US authorities need to think about “an enduring commitment” to the Afghans. Nicholson told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that the plan for …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security       Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday met with German ambassador to Kabul Markus Potzel, discussing issues that cause Afghans’ migration. At least 160,000 Afghans have reportedly reached Europe over the past one year to seek asylum and some 40 percent of them have been …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A Russian delegation will soon visit Kabul for bolstering up mutual trade ties between Afghanistan and Russia, Afghan officials in chamber of commerce and industries said the other day. Kabul will ink a contract with Russian officials on Afghanistan’s fresh and dry fruits export aimed at finding …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has recruited thousands of undocumented Afghans living there to fight in Syria since at least November 2013, Human Rights Watch said today, and a few have reported that Iranian authorities coerced them. Iran has urged the Afghans to defend Shia sacred sites and offered financial …