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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Senior trade adviser to Afghanistan’s president said exports and imports of goods between Iran and Afghanistan have not been balanced. Afghanistan wants to be a good economic partner for Iran, but both sides should benefit from this partnership, Cirous Allaf said Wednesday at a conference themed …

AT News KABUL: Taliban have denied any ceasefire agreement, emphasizing on the “all foreign soldiers’ withdrawal” before any truce settlement. A commander of the group has told Sky News that they want all foreign troops get out of Afghanistan, arguing that they consider Afghanistan invaded even by the presence of …

AT News KABUL: Media reports say that most of complaints registered by the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission are related to electoral crimes. The report came out on Wednesday by the Radio Liberty who claims of finding “classified complaints” from 16 provinces. The news channel said that most of the documents …

AT News KABUL: An election watchdog on Wednesday expressed grave concern over the hurdles facing the work of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC). A statement from the Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) welcomed the efforts made by IECC with regard to ‘precise and fair’ adjudication of …

The turn of the year and decade from 2019 to 2020 will hopefully open up a new chapter for Afghanistan in terms of peace, political stability and development. The progress made in 2019 in terms of the Afghan peace process and other areas is going to carry on to 2020, …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations on Wednesday said that it needed $733 million in humanitarian relief to vulnerable Afghans during the current year. As many as 9.4 million Afghans would be in need of humanitarian aid in 2020 — up from 6.3 million in 2019, said the UN’s Humanitarian …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan U-19 National Cricket Team on Wednesday left Kabul to South Africa for U-19 World Cup preparation. The team will be engaged in 15 days practice before to play their first match against the host country South Africa in group D on 17th January, Afghanistan Cricket Board …

AT News KABUL: A notorious drug trafficker was arrested with 841-kg narcotics during a crackdown carried out by the Afghan National Police (ANP) in western Herat province. He drugs dealer arrested in Obe district of the province Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, …

AT News KABUL: At least 72 Taliban militants have been killed and 29 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Wednesday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said that the Afghan National …

AT News KABUL: While the Afghans hopping that the New Year (2020) would be merely safe, authorities in northern Afghanistan said Wednesday that at least 34 Afghan security forces have been killed and a number of others received injuries in the first day of the year. A military sources who …