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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: More than a thousand terrorists have gathered along bordering areas of Afghanistan and Tajikistan which is said that will pose security threat for both South Asian countries. According to Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency, the issue was shared by a top-rank security official from Tajikistan during a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iranian ambassador to Kabul, Mohammad Reza Bahrami, has rejected the the claim that the government of Iran is supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan by providing them cash and weapons. The Wall Street Journal the other day quoted Bahrami, as saying that they had not supported the Taliban …

AT-JALALABAD: Hundreds of residents of eastern Nangarhar province took to streets to protest against week-long power breakdown. The protestors blocked Kabul-Jalalabad highway for several hours. They blamed the government for turning its blind eye to the issue. According to sources, militants in Uzbin area have cut electricity transmission lines which …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Officials in Ghazni province have adopted a whole unique way to fight corruption as they shaved heads of two lecturers. According to a news report published by Khaama Press on Friday, the provincial Attorney General Office (AGO) officials have launched probe into allegations leveled against the two …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghan Ambassador to Azerbaijan said that Afghanistan had the opportunity to join the important Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project which will help the country to speed up the rebuilding process. Mohammad Taqi Khalili told Trend News Agency, that Afghanistan could join the railway project through the Lapis Lazuli …

Afghanistan plans to launch its first online marketplace to allow local businesses to export products directly to world markets, an official said Thursday, the latest effort to boost the country’s stalling economy. The Afghanistan International Commodity Exchange Market will aim to provide businesses access to international traders online and boost …

AT-KABUL: Six passengers were killed and more than 20 critically injured, Thursday, in a traffic accident of two vehicles in southern Zabul province of the country, local officials said. A passenger bus bounded to southern Kandahar from Kabul crushed into a tanker truck in Shajoy district of the province this …

KABUL: Endorsing the Financing Strategy Agreement for the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), Afghanistan will receive $ 2.8 billion in grant assistance during the three years, a statement from the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. From this assistance, the statement said that $1.2 billion would be provided to support …

AT-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga said that Iran’s support for the Taliban is way more dangerous than Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan. Senators in a plenary session of the Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday said that Islamabad is interfering in Afghanistan’s affairs for years now, but now Iran is also in the quest to …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) said that peace parleys between representatives of the government and the Taliban in Norway are different from previous informal peace talks. According to sources, representatives of the government and the Taliban attended an international conference in Oslo, the capital city of Norway, …