Nation

AT News KABUL: Pakistan has reopened Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan after its weeks-long shutdown over coronavirus fears stranded tens of thousands of people and hundreds of trucks. Pakistan said it closed the Torkham border crossing “in order to ensure safety and security of vehicles and pedestrians”. Torkham is the main …

With global economic activity ramping down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not surprising that emissions of a variety of gases related to energy and transport have been reduced. Traffic levels in the city were estimated to be down 35% compared with earlier normal days. Emissions of …

AT News KABUL: The religious scholars called for a ban of any religious and political gatherings after the increase of Corona virus spread in the country. The religious scholars said in a statement released on Sunday that people need to perform five-time prayers at their homes and avoid going to …

AT News KABUL: Hundreds of Afghan Sikhs have signed a letter to Indian Embassy to Kabul in which they have called for New Delhi’s help to leave their motherland after a Daesh-claimed deadly attack targeted their temple in Kabul. An attacker stormed a Sikh temple (Gurdwara) on March 25 in …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s political elite have asked president Ghani to halt his political appointments to let an ongoing effort to mediate between him and his rival Abdullah Abdullah unfold. Prominent politicians including Hamid Karzai, Abdulrab Rasoul Sayyaf, and Mohammad Yunus Qanooni – who have been mediating between the two feuding leaders …

AT News KABUL: After the government called for a lockdown in Kabul city for fighting the spread of the deadly Coronavirus, now the governor for capital says the rule would intensify after most of residents did not take it serious, adding that the violators would be fined by cash. The …

AT News KABUL: Positive cases of coronavirus have dramatically increasing in Afghanistan with 337 cases so far recorded across the country in the shortest period of time —an alarm to the war-hit country that scrambling with fragile health system.       Only on Sunday, 28 cases were registered in Kabul, Kandahar, …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan National Directorate of Security said that its operatives have detained head of IS-K Abdullah Orikzai, aka “Aslam Faroqi”. Faroqi in his initial confession has spoken about the Daesh extremists group’s deep ties with regional intelligence according to the officials. However, Jawid Faisal, a spokesman for …

AT News ABUL: A close aide to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a self-proclaimed president of Afghan presidential vote, has threatened to announce parallel cabinet if Ashraf Ghani—a declared winner of Afghan election by electoral body, did not stop high level appointments. In the past few days, President Ghani appointed Mohammad Haneef …

By Haseeb Rahimi The world has witnessed an unprecedented pandemic in its recent century: COVID-19. The virus has left developed nations with economic catastrophes. China was the very first country to use its labor and resources and sacrifice personal freedom and its economy in order to control the pandemic. The …