AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India will underwrite the supply and delivery of four refurbished Russian-built Mil Mi-24 assault helicopters by Belarus to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) over the next few months, a news agency Jane’s has reported. “The Indian government has agreed to source these helicopters from …
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AT News Report-KABUL: Five senior Pakistani military advisors supporting the Taliban insurgents were among a bevy of terrorists killed in the famous Kunduz airstrike—a move that has sparked uproar in Pakistan. The latest findings of the Afghan National Army has revealed that five Pakistanis who visited Dasht-e-Archi district to help …
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AT News Report-KABUL: At least 25 militants have been killed and 20 other received injuries in different crackdowns conducted by the Afghan security force across the country in the past 24 hours, security official said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the Ministry Defense (MoD), said that during the …
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Growing rate of sufficient access to quality health care is something to be celebrated widely because health is wealth. After the collapse of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan inherited a devastated health system and some of the worst health statistics in the world. After 2001, the darkest area of the Taliban …
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Escalation of violence, carnage and insurgent attacks is now the stark inevitability. This year is proving to be yet another bloodiest year, as civilians in hundreds are slain in execution-style massacres, bombings, and sadly government interdiction operations. The situation is getting out of hands. The death toll of civilians is …
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AT-KABUL: The United States supports Afghan government’s peace offer to the Taliban, calling on the insurgent group to accept the constitution and government’s achievements and stop violence, the US deputy ambassador to Kabul, Annie Pforzheirmer said. In a meeting with the Afghan national security adviser, Hanif Atmar on Wednesday, Pforzheimer …
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AT-KABUL: Afghanistan plans to open air corridors to send products to five countries, the ministry of commerce and industries said Wednesday, a move after the opening air corridors with India and Kazakhstan last year. “We are planning to open air corridors to Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia …
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AT-KABUL: The former President Hamid Karzai said that Afghanistan has been the victim of extremism and terrorism, which is being used as means to reach the great goals of a number of countries. He said this on Wednesday, while delivering speech in Seventh Moscow Conference on International Security. He also …
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AT-KABUL: There has been huge hullaballoo over civilian casualties in a gathering targeted by a military airstrike in northern Kunduz province–which officials reported to have killed 18 Taliban chieftains, while an ensuring sporadic gunfire by panicked militants kills dozens of civilians. Meanwhile, police chief of Dasht-e-Archi, where the strike turned …
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By Mina Habib-Mohammad Naeem, 26, is in a Kabul jail awaiting trial on charges of stealing a mobile phone. Arrested on March 2, 2018 in the Karta-e-Chahr area of Kabul city, he says he will be pleading guilty to the crime. Naeem told IWPR that he had felt under huge …
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