Former Afghan president hopes for an intra-Afghan dialogue in which the Afghan government is present. US officials and Taliban representatives have wrapped up their longest round of talks – lasting 16 days – in Qatar’s capital. While both sides hailed progress on key issues in Doha, there was no major breakthrough coming …

AT News Report KABUL: Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The leadership of the National Unity Government strongly condemned it. The country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terrorist attack and one of New …

An armed persons have showered bullets against the faithful who were assembled for offering the Friday (Juma prays) with automatic guns at two different mosques in New Zealand on Friday. As a result, around 49 people were killed and at least over 20 other injured. Preliminary media report quoting Police …

Though the Afghan government has announced probing killing of eight Kabulkhel tribesmen at Beermal Paktika but certain circles in neighbouring Pakistan are too much exploiting the matter with a view of further gapping relations between the Pakhtoons, made disintegrated by the previous British colonial rulers through controversial Durand Line. Couple …

By Mansoor Faizy and Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: It took 16-day for the chief American peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to finally ink or at least come to a conclusion to some points with the Taliban group—while some officials casted doubt over the success of the meetings—although huge progress had been claimed—and …

KABUL: The Taliban is using peace talks with the United States for “propaganda purposes,” Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah told RFE/RL, urging Washington to keep troops in the country until a formal settlement that includes Kabul has been signed with the militants. Abdullah also said Afghans were “concerned” that the …

AT News Report KABUL: Two persons who had kidnapped and killed a child girl in Kabul city, were arrested by police. The six-year old Mahsa was kidnapped by two young men in the Police District 15, north part of the capital, who demanded 300,000 US dollars from her father for …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai says he welcomes the results in talks between US diplomats and Taliban representative in Qatari capital of Doha. “Considering the recent developments over the peace negotiations, I would like to call on all parties to abandon war and bloodshed and agree over …

AT News Reports KABUL: Residents of northern Baghlan province on Wednesday protested against police chief in Khenjan district and blocked the Kabul-North highway for traffic. The protestors accused the Khenjan district police chief, Lt. Abdul Ghani Andrabi of misusing his authority and government resources in favor of his relatives. Abdul …

AT News Report KABUL: The National Statistics Department announces 31.6 million as exact number of Afghanistan’s population, the first census carried out since the 1980s. Hassibullah Mowahed deputy of the statics department said Wednesday that the number of the population has been accurately clarified for the first time and the …