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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reassured Afghanistan that it would support President Ghani’s peace plans to negotiate and reconcile with the militant Taliban movement, ZamanNews reported. Yusuf Bin Ahmed Al Uthaymeen vowed support to the efforts of President Ghani of calling upon …

AT-KABUL: National Directorate of Security – NDS – on Wednesday said its operatives had discovered and confiscated a truck loaded with ammonium nitrate in Paktika, which they believed would have been used for terrorist activities. NDS special detachment operatives succeeded to discover and seize a Hino model truck full of …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says it would complete investigations over the fake ID cards within two weeks, while the parliamentarian election is to be launched in 40 days. “A committee is assigned to investigate the counterfeited ID cards and it will share the result of its work with …

Political figures held a meeting on Wednesday to seek a solution to crises. Hamid Karzai, Sebghatullah Mojaddedi, Haneef Atmar, Yunus Qanooni, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Karim Khalili and other prominent politicians and national figures unanimously denunciated the Bilateral Security Agreement with U.S. as a futile platform and demanded it be revised. In …

AT-KABUL: Provincial officials have said that the toll from Tuesday’sfatal suicide bombing on a protest gathering in eastern province of Nangarhar has climbed to 68 and 165 wounded. A suicide bomber rammed into a throng of protestersin Mohmand Dara districton the highway between the eastern Jalalabad city and the Torkham …

School is a place where students going to purse knowledge – this has nothing to do with military, ideological and political issues. It is just a place where children go with sole aim of studying –nothing else. But on Tuesday a schoolboy was killed and three schoolgirls injured in one …

The recent wave of violence that left hundreds of security forces and civilians dead, underscores the growing insecurity in Afghanistan despite measurements taking by government to end long-year hostilities via announcement of ceasefire. But nothing has changed rather truce caused more bloodshed and the level of insecurity reached the poling …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban militants are preparing for another round of talks with the diplomats of the United States, sources close to the insurgent group’s leadership said. These sources added that Taliban’s leadership was working to form a delegate for the second round of the talks that would discuss the crisis …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A series of suicide attacks and explosions hit different locations in eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, killing 32 people and injuring over 128, officials said. A suicide bomber rammed into a throng of protesters in Mohmand Dara district on the highway between the eastern Jalalabad city …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Tuesday turned the heat up on what he called ‘a colossal election rigging’ and millions of forged identity cards and voter stickers having been distributed, and said he will utilize all possible means in a bid to ensure free and fair election …