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AT-KABUL: The health ministry in joint venture with Bayat Foundation on Monday laid foundation stone of a maternity hospital within Indira Ghandi Children’s Hospital compound in Kabul. According to a press statement, the 100-bed maternity hospital will be built in four floors and will have many facilities including a blood bank, eye and ear …

AT-KABUL: Over 20 Taliban fighters including a key member of Quetta Shura have been killed and 15 others wounded, after Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban gathering in Northern Kunduz province on Monday. Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban meeting in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz and killed over 20 Taliban …

AT-KABUL: The enemies of education have sprayed poison into a school in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, sickening about 43 schoolgirls in what authorities suspect is a case of group poisoning. Public Health Director Dr. Aminullah Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News the poisoned girls were evacuated to Bost …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has urged people to push the Taliban into acceding peace talks. Visiting eastern province of Paktia’s Gardez on Sunday, Ghani said the peace proposition he unraveled a month ago was an exceedingly effective plan for achieving a lasting peace. However, Taliban have not responded to the …

AT News Report-KABUL: The European Union unveiled on Sunday a major campaign to fight corruption in Afghanistan, seeking to address three critical sectors including elections, economic growth and development. A statement from EU said the three-week campaign would culminate with a high-level anti-corruption conference in mid-April. Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon, head …

AT-KABUL: As many as 34 people including a woman and a citizen of Iran have been arrested for their involvement in major drug trafficking practices across Afghanistan last week, authorities said. The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Sunday said the counternarcotics police forces had caught the suspects …

AT News Report-KABUL: The top security officials said that they would be able to provide security of the parliamentarian and district councils’ elections. In a meeting held chaired by the national security adviser, security officials said that clearance operations would be launched ahead of the elections. Also the national security …

AT News Report-KABUL: The security situation of the journalists and other media workers is worsening in Afghanistan, a media supportive watchdog said Sunday. The open media supporter organization (NAI) warned that if the situation continues, Kabul city would also be unsafe for the journalists. Mojib Khalvatgar, deputy head of the …

AT-KABUL: The European Union unveiled on Sunday a major campaign to fight corruption in Afghanistan, seeking to address three critical sectors including elections, economic growth and development. A statement from EU said the three-week campaign would culminate with a high-level anti-corruption conference in mid-April. Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon, head of the …

AT-KABUL: The United Nations welcomes the progress made by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) in setting an October 2018 date to hold Afghanistan’s parliamentary and district council elections. “Setting a firm date for elections is a notably positive and important development in the work of the IEC, and will allow …