Indian External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said the OIC must tell such nations to dismantle terror infrastructure. AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday raised a pitch at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meet to build pressure on the countries that support terror outfits and …

T News Report KABUL: NATO Secretary-General says the Daesh terrorist group has several different organizations in Afghanistan, arguing that war on terror has not ended in the country. Jens Stoltenberg, however, says that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had been successful in suppressing the terrorist group. He added that Daesh …

India and Pakistan joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as full member-states in the 8-9 June 2017 SCO Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. Before the addition of the two South Asian nations, the SCO consisted of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The now eight-member SCO also has four observer-states, …

AT News Report KABUL: Flights between Kabul and New Delhi have to use the long air way of Iran after tensions erupted between India and Pakistan, with the latter blocking its air way for the flights, officials said Friday. The state-run Ariana Airline is to launch its first flight via …

By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: The Taliban fighters have been carrying out attacks daily in different parts of Afghanistan while its leader is engaged with US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation in peace talks to end the 18-year long war. On Friday early morning, again the Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan …

Amidst conflicting points of views, the talks between US Special Envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad and opposition Taliban political office suspended on Thursday, and will resume today. Taliban spokesperson says that talks suspended due to deviation of US negotiation team from what he called two main topics and started discussing “irrelevant” …

AT News Report KABUL: China’s Defense Ministry defended military cooperation with Tajikistan following a report of a sizable Chinese troop presence at a base in the Central Asian state. Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang told reporters at a monthly briefing that cooperation between the two was “in line with” international law …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of Pakistan has blocked air route for airplanes flying between Afghanistan and India, the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday, a move taken after Indian fighter jets attacked Pakistani-controlled area of Kashmir in an apparent retaliation to a suicide attack that targeted Indian army …

AT News Reports KABUL: The Civil Society criticizes the introducing process of electoral commissioners, saying the commissioners are introduced by personal relationships. Wahidullah Taroon a civil society activist said on Wednesday that people introduced for the posts are not professionals. Taroon added that those who had friends or relatives in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The two nuclear—neighboring states, India and Pakistan say they have shot down each other’s warplanes in a dramatic escalation of their conflict over the disputed region of Kashmir. The Pakistani military initially said on Wednesday that the country’s air force had downed two India Air Force …