AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Considering the Taliban insurgents as no longer an existential threat to the government, a top Pentagon official has said that this year the Afghan security forces are struggling with a very difficult environment as fighting intensified in the country. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Sartaj Aziz, National Security and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, said that the representatives of the Taliban who talked to the Afghan government’s delegation in Murree, last week, had approval of the Central Leadership Council, Pakistani media reported. While confirming a face-to-face …

AT-KABUL: At least 14 militants have been killed during clashes between the Taliban and ISIS in eastern Nangarhar province. A press statement issued by Nangarhar police here on Tuesday said that nine militants were killed in Sholana area of Chaparhar district and five others were killed in Momand village of …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) in a report released on Tuesday said that unemployment and easy access to drugs are the main factors behind return of people to addiction after rehabilitation. At least 465 people in 39 addicts’ rehabilitation centers have been interviewed in Kabul, Kandahar, …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Kabul Police Chief on Tuesday claimed that crimes have decreased by 37 percent, as comparing to the past. Abdul Rahman Rahemi said that it was expected that crime rate will rise due to widespread unemployment across the country, but it has dropped as comparing to the past. …

A deal on limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions has been reached at talks in Vienna, diplomats say. Under the agreement, access for nuclear inspectors monitoring Iran’s programme would reportedly not be automatic. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it had signed a …

The harbingers of the death and destruction, mutilated ruthlessly 25 innocent civilians in Khost province on Sunday evening. Khost is one of those ill-fated provinces in the southeast where militant groups particularly those linked to the dreaded Haqqani Network are actively operating in its various districts. What could be the …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Monday urged the government to probe into killing of 3-year old toddler in 8th district of Kabul city. Kabul police recovered a dead body of a toddler named Muhammad Yunus, in 8th district of Kabul city last week. According to reports, the child …

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Japan Embassy in Kabul on Monday said that the country has turned 16,500 hectares of barren land desert into arable land in eastern Nangarhar province. Japan ambassador to Kabul, Hiroshi Takashi, said Peace Medical Services (PMC) as implementer of the project initiated the scheme in 2003 …

AT-KABUL: Ex-President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced recent terrorist attacks in Khost, Kunduz, Kapisa and other provinces that led to killing of tens of people. Hamid Karzia termed that attacks as inhuman and said that perpetrators of the attacks were enemies of the people of Afghanistan. Karzai stressed that all the …