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AT News KABUL: Vice President Sarwar Danesh has shrugged off a new report by the U.S. Department of State over a wrong figure of the population of Shia Muslims in Afghanistan. The report has said that 10 to 15 percent of Afghanistan’s population of 35.5 million are Shia Muslims. The …

AT News KABUL: International flights are to be rescheduled soon, the aviation department said, after almost three months of pause as the country imposed a nationwide quarantine for the fear of spread of the Corona virus. The aviation department said Monday in a statement that health instructions would be observed …

AT News KABUL: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has announced decision to end activities and withdraw from Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul, following the brutal attack on their maternity wing on 12 may, in which 16 mothers were systematically shot dead. An MSF midwife, two children aged 7 and 8, and six other people …

AT News KABUL: Unidentified gunmen stormed into a house in southern Khost and killed seven members of a family including women and children, local officials said. Provincial police spokesman, Adel Haidari said the incident occurred on Sunday night in Ismailkhil village of Mandozai district. A teenager was found wounded, he …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan on Monday has recorded 761 new positive cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours that pushed the total number to 25,527 across the country. The Ministry of Public Health said that out of 1,551 suspected samples, 761 were came positive, in which 364 patients have …

AT News KABUL: Presence of female security forces in Afghanistan military has increased by 16 percent, according to the Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction. SIGAR said in a statement on Sunday that the total number of the female security personnel would surpass 5,260 by January 26th. “Some 3, 635 female …

AT News KABUL: As part of the EU’s global coronavirus response, an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight will depart on 15 June from Maastricht, Netherlands to Kabul, Afghanistan. The flight will deliver 100 tonnes of life-saving materials to supply EU-funded humanitarian partners. The flight is fully EU funded and is …

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah’s Cabinet picks are set to be sent to President Ghani for confirmation, based on an agreement between him and the president which sets the motion for a second power sharing government. In meeting with parliament members on Sunday, Chairman of High Council for Reconciliation Dr. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Tajik border guards have warded off an attempt by Afghan drug traffickers to smuggle a large amount of narcotic drug into Tajikistan, according to the public relations center of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS). According to the Asia-Plus, Tajik border guard on a routine …

AT News KABUL: The government and Taliban agreed to release each other’s prisoners after the insurgents signed a peace deal with the United States late February. The government was asked to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, while the militants vowed to free 1,000 government servants mostly security forces kept in the …