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AT News KABUL: Officials in the southern province of Kandahar say that the security forces cleared the Arghandab district of Taliban presence. District Governor, Mohammad Sharif Rasuli, said on Saturday that the area was “now fully controlled” by security forces. According to him, the Taliban planted landmines in some parts …

AT News KABUL: Thousands of people from several districts called for an end to violence, saying that the ongoing peace efforts should be expedited. The gathering at the Ghazi Stadium called “Kabul People’s Voice for Peace” attended by thousands of people on Friday, where they called on the warring sides …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: After a brief halt, the government of India has accelerated the work on Chabahar Port early this year and the strategic Iranian port is expected to be operational by next month, Financial Express reported on Friday. In 2015, India agreed to help develop Iran’s Chabahar Port …

AT News KABUL: A number of Afghan religious scholars in a gathering lambasted the government for its failure to ensure the safety of the Afghans, saying at least 90 clerics were also killed in last year’s violence. They came together in Kabul the other day to discuss issues related to …

By Shamim Shahid Whatever might be reasons behind didn’t allowing PIA plane, carrying a nine-member Pakistan parliamentary delegation at Kabul airport on security grounds, have at somehow generated too many questions. Even it would also pose bad impacts on already polluted relations between the two neighboring countries. The plane returned …

AT News KABUL: Taliban militants have destroyed a bridge on the Kabul-Jalalabad second-lane road in the Surkh Rod district of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday night, provincial officials said on Friday. The bridge was blown up after the Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint of the Afghan security forces in the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Preparations are underway for the Afghan peace talks set to take place in Turkey, the U.S. State Department said, Reuters reported. Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote a letter to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani putting forward Turkey to host talks to end the two-decade-long …

AT News KABUL: Nine members of the Afghan border force killed and over 14 others were taken hostage after a number of Taliban insurgents attacked two checkpoints in Herat province, source said on Friday. The attack happened on two outposts in Kohsan and Ghorian districts on Thursday night, TOLONews quoted …

US official says Turkey conference will help Afghan negotiators to make progress in their negotiations, and will complement the peace talks that are currently ongoing in Doha AT News KABUL: The assessment of peace proposals, including the one provided by President Ashraf Ghani has been completed, the High Council for …

AT News KABUL: Violence against women has had an unprecedented increase in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, provincial officials say. The violence cases include divorce, beating, escape from home and family violence. Sharifa 19, is a resident of the Kohestan district’s village of Pas Pol. She married when she was …