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AT-KABUL: The ex-President Hamid Karzai left for Germany on Sunday on an invitation by the University of Bochum and Körber Foundation. Hamid Karzai will deliver a speech in the university. The former national security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Nazer Husain Rahimi and Ershad Ahmadi are accompanying Karzai in the trip. …

AT-KABUL: The captain of the national cricket team, Mohammad Nabi Isakhil, is scheduled to formally resign from his post today (Monday). The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) spokesman, Mohammad Farid Hotak, said Nabi will announce his resignation at a press conference today (Monday). He said that Nabi has written to the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Following deadly incident in Nangarhar province for which the self-proclaimed ISIS militants claimed responsibility, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday said such incidents unite the people against insurgents more than any other time in the past. The MoI spokesman, Sediq Seddiqi, said Afghans will combat against …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in an attempt to enlist public support in arresting those who took part in killing Farkhunda—a 27-year woman, who was lynched by an angry mob last month in Kabul, has announced a reward for those who give tip off to police regarding the suspects …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its report said that due to limited access to judicial system, women victim of domestic violence inevitably used traditional mediation rather than court adjudication in resolving their cases. The report titled “Justice through the Eyes of Afghan …

Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi-KABUL: Legal adviser to the Afghan president on Sunday said that despite spending millions of US dollars in past 13 years over the capacity building programs for women, the projects have failed to empower women. Addressing a conference here, Abdul Ali Mohammadi said that economic status of women …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hundreds of civil society activists on Sunday took out to the streets and staged peaceful demonstration to give vent to their anger over brutal massacre of innocent people in Jalalabad City. Condemning the deadly suicide blast, they said that killing of the people could not be justified …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Since highways are getting insecure and passengers are being kidnapped, residents of Zabul province called on the government on Sunday to ramp up security measures along leading highways particularly Kabul-Kandahar road. Commuters face a great threat following a marked surge in militant attacks on passengers on highways, …

KABUL: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that his country and neighboring Afghanistan have agreed on intelligence and security cooperation as part of efforts to combat illicit drugs trafficking and terrorism, Iranian Media reports Sunday. In a joint press conference with his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in Tehran, Rouhani …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Hinting at mounting insecurity in northern Sar-i-Pul province, local security officials have said that lack of heavy weapons has marred their mission to bring law-and-order in the province. They said the Taliban militants were trying to insecure the province and target the security forces. Quoted by Radio …