AT News KABUL: Coronavirus figures in both (cases and deaths) have been dropped significantly over the past few weeks in Afghanistan. One patient has lost life battling the virus, the Afghan health ministry said on Tuesday. 160 new cases were tested positive from 416 suspected simples in the last 24 …
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By Irfanullah Mateen During Covid-19 pandemic, Afghan government implemented a project of 2 billion Afghanis to distribute bread amongst the poorest. But due to the large scale of corruption and lack of transparency in the project, the needy people didn’t get much benefit out of it. Now, the government wants …
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AT News KABUL: Officials in the mountainous province of Ghor in the center of the country say that civilian casualties have increased 35 per cent there since a February peace agreement between the United States and Taliban under which the latter pledged to reduce violence. Aref Shadan, head of the …
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AT News KABUL: The United States is not going to totally pull back its soldiers from Afghanistan, says Karim Khorram, a former government official. Khorram said on Monday that if the US wraps up military presence in the country, it would rely very much to the local militia men. He …
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AT News KABUL: The first half of 2020 witnessed fluctuating levels of violence impacting civilians in Afghanistan, with the United Nations documenting 3,458 civilian casualties (1,282 killed and 2,176 injured), according to a new report released on Sunday. While the civilian casualty figures represent a 13 percent decrease as compared …
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AT News KABUL: In the wake of the prisoner swap process between the government and Taliban as part of the US-Taliban peace deal, the militants freed a batch of 37 Afghan security forces in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar. The Taliban political spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said in a …
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AT News KABUL: De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, a government power producing company, has said that Tajikistan reduced electricity supply to Afghanistan. Breshna said in a statement that Dushanbe reduced the 350 megawatt power to 40 due to the lower surface of water. To meet the needs of the Afghan citizens, …
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AT News KABUL: At least one Afghan security personnel was killed and two others wounded after an Afghan military helicopter made an emergency landing in Kajaki district of southern Helmand province, officials said on Monday. A security official, who was talking on condition of anonymity, said that a Black Hawk …
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The existence of several ethnics, religions and languages in a society indicate the unity and love among the citizens with painting a great image of beauty of a unified nation. Afghanistan is one of those rare countries in the region that has several religions, ethnics and languages. Besides the Pashtons, …
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AT News KABUL: Health officials in western Herat province have expressed concerns on possible second wave of covid-19 pandemic in the eve of busy ramble ahead of the Muslim Holiday Eid-al Adha. If the citizens committed negligence, there is the possibility of infection of a large number of people to …
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