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Leaving? Take all of your belongings with you

Rangin Dadfar Spanta Donald Trump, The President of the United States of America, stated that “Afghanistan is terrorism’s laboratory”. The US will, however, keep its intelligence mission active in the country, even after it withdraws its troops, in order to continue combating terrorist threats. Numerous points about this statement require …

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9th round of US, Taliban peace talks kicks off in Qatar

AT News Report KABUL: The US and the Taliban representatives resumed their peace talks in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday night and would sit again late Friday to resume peace talks as part of Washington’s efforts to bring an end to Afghanistan’s conflict after nearly 19 years. According to …

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2,000 polling stations to remain shut on Election Day: IEC

AT News Report KABUL: As the presidential election are just around the corner, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Friday announced that at least 2,000 vote centers will remain closed on polling day. Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesperson for the electoral body, in an interview with Azadi Radio cited the …

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Editorial: How can Pakistan help Afghan peace?

Pakistani troops have fired hundreds of rockets on the border points of Afghanistan since the last day of Eid in last week. The rockets that were reportedly fired from Pakistan’s Bajawar area, hit the Shultan district of Kunar province which borders Pakistani tribal regions. The attacks come at a time …

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Pakistan fires 200 rockets into Kunar

AT News Report KABUL: Local inhabitants have been under extreme fear as Pakistani troops have fired a new barrage of rockets into Shultan district of eastern Kunar province, causing financial losses to people, local officials said Wednesday. Kunar governor’s spokesman, Abdul Ghani Musamam, said up to 200 rockets had been …

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Khalilzad says he is ready to finalize remaining issues with Taliban

AT News Report KABUL: The US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad said that his country was ready to finalize the remaining issues of peace talks with the Taliban representatives, but if they “are ready as well”. “Productive week in Washington, briefed management on where we are and next …

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Five terrorist networks busted in Kandahar

AT News Report KABUL: Five terrorist networks were busted during operations carried out by intelligence forces in southern Kandahar province, the spy agency said Wednesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives conducted operations in the provincial district as well as some districts of Kandahar, during which, 25 insurgents were …

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Kabul wedding attack death toll increased to 80

AT News Report KABUL: Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said that death toll from the Kabul weeding party attack increased to 80. The MoI spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, said that death toll from Kabul wedding party attack has been increased to 80 people. He said that the number of wounded …

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Editorial: Pakistani duplicity at its peak

As Afghanistan currently has more than enough of insecurity on its plate, Pakistani aggression on top of that makes the circumstances further worse for Afghans. According to local officials, Pakistani forces have fired up to 200 rockets into Shultan district of eastern Kunar province, causing financial losses to people, since …

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29 drug traffickers sentenced to years in prison

AT News Report KABUL: At least 29 drug runners pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and were sentenced to year behind bars in the past one week. A statement issued by the courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) that 29 drug traffickers sentenced to two – 15 years’ incarceration after …

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