By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: A number of civil society activists and scores of protestors on Sunday asked Wolesi Jirga to summon the security officials for their negligence regarding the deadly incident in Jarliz district of Maidan Wardak province, where more than 30 Afghan Local Policemen (ALP) were killed by the …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Members of the Meshrano Jirga on Sunday staged a walk out protest as the summoned high-ranking security officials failed to appear before the Senate. The gate of Meshrano Jirga (MJ) or Senate was closed down till coming Wednesday as protest after the minister of foreign affairs and …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced acid attack on school girls in western Herat province. In a fresh case of violence against women, unidentified men on motorcycles hurled acid at three girl students in the province. Hamid Karzai termed the acid attack a cowardly act and said that it was …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 23 Taliban militants have been killed in Afghan military airstrike in Faryab province the other day, said a local official. Mohammad Reza Rezaye, a spokesman for 209th Shaheen military corps, said that the airstrike come after that a swarm of Taliban militants stormed Kohistan …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Wolesi Jirga urged the incumbent government to introduce its new pick for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) soon. This comes at a time that Massom Stankzai, minister-designate for defense failed to get vote of confidence from Wolesi Jirga. The Jirga also previously rejected Sher Muhammad Karimi to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kunduz province continue to live in dire conditions, Radio Azadi reported. Recent wars and conflicts in different districts of the province forced thousands of families to leave their homes and move to the capital city of the province and other safe areas. …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Scores of Afghan companies on Sunday alleged different American and Turkish firms of ‘looting’ over $100 million from local contractors. The local companies urged President Ashraf Ghani for justice. Representative of the Afghan companies, Sayed Qaribullah Sadat, said that the US and Turkish construction firms have deprived …

By Devendra Bhattarai-Rabin Khadka, 27, of Lamjung and Bir Bahadur Gurung, 30, of Kathmandu have been making rounds of various hotels and centres of New Delhi for the past seven months after a group duped thousands of rupees from them promising a good job at a security force in Kabul, …

AT-KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed a team of high-level government officials to investigate the Jalrez district tragedy in central Maidan Wardak province, a statement from the Presidential Palace said. The statement said that the president had nominated a delegation to thoroughly investigate the incident and submit the final …

KABUL: The commission tasked by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to investigate the Jalrez district tragedy in central Maidan Wardak province has formally started work, a statement from the President Palace said on Sunday. Last Thursday, heavily-armed insurgents stormed and seized several police check posts and later killed 24 Afghan Local …