AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai “most vehemently” condemned a foreign airstrike that targeted civilians in the southern province of Helmand, calling on the United States to intensify peace efforts in Afghanistan rather than bombing homes and villages. At least 16 members were killed in the airstrike launched in the Sangin …
Read More »Qatar Talks;US, Taliban to release joint statement over peace talks Saturday
AT-KABUL: The fourth round of meeting between the United States envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad with the Taliban group is at edge of yielding result as both sides would probably release a joint statement today (Saturday). Sources close to Taliban said Friday that the two sides were expected to …
Read More »Political party denounces Mohaqiq’s dismissal as against ‘political agreement’
AT-KABUL: The Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Mardom-e-Afghanistan (Islamic Unity of Afghan People’s Party), a political party led by the second chief executive deputy rejected his dismissal by President Ashraf Ghani as violating the political agreement. President Ghani on Thursday, sacked Mohaqiq, a powerful politician from his post as deputy chief executive, without elaborating. …
Read More »Religious scholars to Taliban: Hold direct talks with Afghan govt.
AT-KABUL: A number of the Islamic scholars on Friday stressed on an intra-Afghan dialogue, calling on the Taliban group to hold talks with the government of Afghanistan. These clerics in a gathering in the northern province of Baghlan, demanded the war sides to observe an armistice with the aim of …
Read More »Senior IS member killed in US airstrike
AT-KABUL: A senior Islamic State (IS) also known as Daesh terrorist, has been killed in a US airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province. The news came at the end of a week in which two US service member were killed in Afghanistan in 2019. Provincial governor office said that the drone …
Read More »Qatar talks; US-Taliban negotiations make headway on staking points
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With reaching its six conservative days of talks between US officials and the Taliban Qatar-based members, source familiar with Doha talks said that they busy negotiating withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and assertion of ceasefire. It has been said that neogiation would entered its 6-day today …
Read More »Mullah Baradar now heads Taliban Qatar office
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Sources close to Taliban have said that the leadership council of the group has appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, as head of Taliban’s Qatar office. Baradar has also been appointed as the third deputy of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of Taliban. According …
Read More »Ghani on security forces casualty; Over 45,000 security forces lost their lives since Sep 2014
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Disclosing new figures on casualties, President Ashraf Ghani said that 45,000 Afghan security forces personnel have lost their lives since he took the office in September 2014. He said this while addressing a panel at the World Economic Forum. He put the number at more than 28,000 …
Read More »Editorial: Reshuffling at Doha
The opposition Taliban Movement leaders have made wide range reshuffling in its set-up at Doha Qatar replacing Maulvi Muhammad Abbass Stanakzai by Mulla Abdul Ghani Biradar as chief of Political office. The reshuffling made at the time of fifth round of peace talks between Taliban political office and United States …
Read More »Editorial: Unrest in Pakhtunkhwa
Due to one or other reasons especially hostile attitude on the part of Pakistani authorities causing wide range unrest amongst Pakhtoons across the Durand Line. On one hand, Afghanistan and its people are ahead with worst kind of terror, violence and aggression from abroad and on the other the Pakhtoons …
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