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AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Tuesday blamed the local armed groups who are fighting Taliban for using children as soldiers. “Although I am aware that children are not in Afghan national security and defense forces, but unfortunately, they are used in uprising militias and local police, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghanistan-China Economic and Trade Commission’s third meeting held in Beijing, in which both officials discussed greater cooperation between the two countries, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. Monday’s meeting was co-chaired by Minister of Finance, Eklil Hakimi, and Gao Yan, China’s vice-minister of commerce, the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani and a number of his ministers on Tuesday have signed more than 20 bilateral cooperation agreements with their Uzbek counterparts in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The official visit of high-ranking Afghan delegation, comprising Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and the National Security Adviser Mohammad …

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Distressed by violence sweeping parts of northern Afghanistan, Dr. NajibPaikan mounted the stairs of his mosque one recent day, and stepped up to the pulpit to provide his personal view of what is needed to “win the peace.” He called on his friends and colleagues to “wake up” and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Indonesian Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Yohana Yembise mapped out the requirements of Afghanistan that is keen to take a cue on women empowerment policies from Indonesia, Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported. “We want to make a list, so we will focus on assisting Afghanistan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A 30-year-old woman has lost her life after being severely beaten by her husband in the northern Takhar province. According to provincial police officials, the husband had beaten her to death for picking up 500 Afghanis from his pocket without his permission. The heart-wrenching and inhuman incident …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The German government is expected to deport dozens of Afghans asylum-seekers today (Wednesday), a British newspaper reported on Tuesday. The would-be deportees, numbering 78, include a 26-year-old who fears he will be killed on return to his conflict-torn country. In his case, Germany has been accused of …

AT-KABUL: The Chinese Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Deng Xijun held a meeting with the National Security Adviser, Haneef Atmar at Presidential Palace, where the two sides discussed issues of mutual interests including regional political and security situations and the developments in the recent Istanbul process conference in Azerbaijan. …

AT-KABUL: The senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network Omar Khattab was killed along with 80 fighters in a joint Afghan and international operation in Afghanistan, the intelligence agency said Tuesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement that the intelligence special operatives along with the Afghan …

AT-KABUL: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has taken a friendly and important initiative to host a major conference on Afghanistan in the nearest time, Presidential Palace said on Monday. Speaking at the press conference here in Kabul, Presidential Palace acting spokesperson, Shah Hussain Murtazawi, said during the conference meaningful discussion …