AT News Report KABUL: 15 media organizations have failed to pay their journalists and other staff from six to 21 months, a media watchdog said. The media supporting agency (NAI) warned on Sunday that it would publicize the identities of the media companies if they continue to keep their personnel …

AT News Report KABUL: Leaders of a Pashtonn political movement said peace in Afghanistan was a key matter for Kabul and Islamabad, saying that Afghan peace should e resolved through political ways. The Awwami National Party chairman, Isfandiar Wali Khan met former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday in Kabul, where …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai condemns what he called “incorrect words” about Marashal Qasim Fahim, a jihadi commander who served as Karzai’s first vice president. “Unfortunately, I learned that some incorrect words were used about Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim,” he said Sunday in a statement. Karzai said …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: “Talking to the Taliban without the Afghan government in the room was a huge mistake,” the former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday, “because if we’re talking to the Taliban and the Afghan government isn’t involved, we …

AT News Report KABUL: A nine member Taliban delegation led by Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s deputy leader, have visited China to discuss issues related to the Afghan peace process and peace agreement with the US. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen in a tweet says Ghani Baradar held a meeting with …

AT News Report KABUL: Seven members of a single family were killed when their auto-rickshaw plunged into a river on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in center Kabul province on Sunday. Hasrat Abdullah, the eyewitness, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident happened in Mahipar area of Sarobi district. He said women were …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of members of parliament foresee that half of the 4,942 voting centers would be likely closed on the day of election, arguing the security situation. The allegations come as government forces have launched offensive operations against Taliban fighters since last week all over the …

AT News Report KABUL: The Afghan security forces have recaptured Jaghato district of southern Ghazni province after two years being under bagged by the Taliban group, security official said Sunday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said that Jaghato retaken after Afghan security forces conducted Operation Mobeen, involving airstrikes. Despite …

AT News Report KABUL: At least 66 militants were killed and 26 others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Sunday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) …

AT News Report KABUL: In a press conference with his Australian Counterpart Prime Minister, Scott Morrison at the White House, US President Donald Trump said he called off the peace talks with the Taliban group after they showed disagreement to nod for a ceasefire. He said the Taliban were under …