“Pakistani cleric Tahir Ashrafi had no option but to put his weight behind the Afghan peace process as the Taliban showed willingness to sit at the negotiations table in Kabul instead of a venue on foreign soil” By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: Afghan government and the Taliban should resolve their problems …

On Tuesday the World Wildlife Day was observed across the planet, except Afghanistan, despite the fact that the country provides rich habitat to hundreds of species and where hunting is continued despite ban imposed by the former president Hamid Karzai. The good excuse for the relevant officials to come up …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An official in Da Afghanistan Brishna Sherkat (DABS) said that they were setting up emergency power lines to supply 170 percent electricity to Kabul in next two days. Wahidullah Tawhidi, spokesman for the DABS, said that they were working to set up three emergency power lines to …

AT-KABUL: Kunduz governor urged the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to conduct large-scale military operation against the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in the province. Muhammad Omar Safi talking to Azadi Radio on Tuesday confirmed the presence of ISIS fighters in some districts of the province and said …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Security forces have launched a rescue operation in southern Zabul province on Monday night to free the 30 passengers (ethnically Hazaras) who were abducted by unknown armed men more than one week back, said reports on Tuesday. TOLO News quoted a number of sources as saying that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least five workers of ‘Save the Children’, a non-governmental organization (NGO) were kidnapped by unknown armed men in southern Uruzgan province, said official on Tuesday. Pajhwok Afghan News Agency quoted Police chief of Trinkot city’s first district, Gul Agha, as saying that the NGO works were …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In the aftermath of Kabul’s struggles to bring the Taliban to the table of negotiations with the help of Pakistan, and improvement in Kabul-Islamabad ties, the Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Amar Sinha, said the other day that peace negotiations should not result in abandoning the control of …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Tuesday said that based on the extradition treaty signed in 2006, Tajikistan would transfer the Afghan inmates to Kabul soon. Spokesman of the ministry, Ahmad Shekib Mostaghni, told media persons that Afghan delegation has finalized the process of identifying Afghan prisoners and …

AT-KABUL: The civil society, aggregate of nongovernmental organizations, has launched relief aid collection campaign to help the avalanches affected people in the country. The one-week campaign was launched on Tuesday in the capital city of Afghanistan where seven camps were set up. Through the camps the civil rights activists would …

AT-KABUL: At least nine armed militants were killed and eight others sustained injuries in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of interior (MoI) claimed that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal …