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AT-KABUL: The government is to cedesix provinces including Paktika to the Taliban insurgents, calling them ‘safe zone’, a reliable government source told the Kabul News on Sunday. He added that the new leadership of Pakistani Taliban would highly likely open its center in the so-called safe zone. The provinces are …

AT-KABUL: Dozens of peace protesters who had arrived last week in Kabul rallied in the streets of Kabul on Sunday and headed towards UNAMA compound where they will have a sit-in protest for three days. UNAMA in a tweet welcomed Helmand peace marchers in Kabul. “Our door is open to …

AT-KABUL: Afghan intelligence operatives in a crackdown operation have gunned down Islamic State commander who masterminded recent terrorist attacks in eastern Nangarhar province. A cache of weapons and ammunition belonging to Daesh terrorists was also destroyed during the crackdown. “Daesh commander who was behind recent Nangarhar terrorist attacks was killed …

AT-KABUL: Law enforcement in Torkham border in the east has thwarted a bid to smuggle a sixteen-tonne shipment of gemstones to Pakistan. Spokesperson ofNangarhar governor Ataullah Khogyani said security stopped a truck loaded with gemstones that had purportedly embarked from Logar and Nangarhar provinces and recovered 16 tonnes of precious …

AT-KABUL: Over 230 people have been arrested in major drug trafficking sweeps during this year’s first quarter in Afghanistan, which is hit hard by the opioid epidemic. Criminal Justice Task Force spokesperson Ahmad Khaled Moahed said Sunday that counternarcotics police in major drug busts across several provinces have arrested 230 …

AT-KABUL: At least 80 militants have been killed and 31 others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Sunday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said the Afghan …

AT-KABUL: Pundits and commentators have taken umbrage at ongoing perplexing and negative circumstances in Afghanistan and confided in a periodical session of the Rana Think Tank that crisis in Afghanistan is inexorable whether or not elections are held. They pointed out susceptibility of election process to fraud and incapacity of …

AT-KABUL: The members of parliament say they would not accept the government’s peace process with the Taliban, saying it has “dark sides”, at a time that all attentions have been concentrated on the process. Parliament Speaker, Abdul RaoufEbrahimi, said Saturday that the peace process should clear and transparent, and people …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In defiance of fresh US sanctions on Iran, India says the strategic Chabahar port in southeastern Iran will be made operational by the end of next year. India’s Minister of Shipping Nitin Gadkari said on Friday the government in New Delhi was trying to operationalise the port, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 600 drugs traffickers have been arrested, 155 laboratories destroyed, 12 storage units destroyed and poppy crop on 4,865 hectares of land eradicated over the past two years. In a recent meeting with US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) officials, the Afghan ambassador …