By Mohammad Parwiz Arian KABUL: The United States says it expects the Taliban to form an inclusive government, saying channels of communication with the Taliban will remain open on important issues. US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said on Friday that he would visit Qatar on Sunday for meetings on …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief FaizHameed on Saturday arrived in Kabul and spoke with Taliban regarding cementing Afghanistan-Pakistan ties. This is the first high-level Pakistani official visits Kabul after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. According to Pajhwok News Agency, Pakistani media say he held detailed talks …

AT News KABUL: The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres is to travel to Geneva to convene a high–level meeting regarding Afghanistan’s humanitarian needs. The UN in a statement said that the meeting will be convened on 13 September. According to the statement, Afghanistan is scrambling with humanitarian catastrophe.  “The conference will …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai expressed his deepest concerns over the clashes erupted between the Taliban fighters and so-called resistance armed men in the northern province of Panjshir. “Unfortunately, despite efforts of the mediators, military operation and fight erupted in Panjshir, which is a deep concern and is …

AT News KABUL: UNICEF says that 69 Afghan children have been evacuated abroad without their parents. UNICEF Afghanistan representative HervéLudovic De Lys said the exact number of these children is difficult to be examined. He said efforts are underway to integrate the evacuated children with their parents. He said that …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations Security Council called on the Taliban to facilitate a safe passage for the people intending to leave Afghanistan. The UNSC in a statement, which was issued after an emergency meeting regarding Afghanistan, didn’t say anything about the formation of a safe zone in Kabul. …

AT News KABUL: The least remaining of the U.S. Forces late Monday left the Kabul- Hamid Karzai International Airport, ending its longest or so-called endless war in Afghanistan. The U.S. secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin said that Washington put an end to this war with the evacuation of civilian personnel, …

AT News KABUL: Afghan Children have paid the heaviest price in recent weeks of increased conflict and insecurity, said the regional director for UNICEF South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei. Not only have some been forced from their homes, and cut off from their schools and friends, they have also been deprived …

AT News KABUL: Several rockets fired from the outskirts of Kabul targeted the city on Monday morning, according to reports, amid the speedy withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan that is expected to end on Tuesday (August 31). The reports cited eyewitnesses who said that the rockets hit the …

AT News KABUL:  Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, a senior member of the Taliban’s political office said on Saturday that consultations are going on with different ethnicities and political parties about the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan. Addressing the country on the national radio and television station, Stanikzai stressed …