A Constitutional amendment to allow for a trajectory after Taliban talks now seems highly likely AT News KABUL: With Afghanistan on the cusp of marathon peace talks, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, is expected to visit Qatar to kick off negotiations with the militant …

The Afghanistan-Pakistan ties are more often than not strained and less than cordial. The neighboring country tests the Afghan nation’s patience time and again through its aggression into Afghan territory. In a recent happening, a clash occurred between the Afghan security forces and Pakistani troops in the Torkham crossing point …

Dr. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta was a policymaker and senior official of Afghanistan government after 2001. He served as President Hamid Karzai’s international relations advisor, foreign minister and national security advisor. He played a pivotal role in negotiating and crafting the U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2005. Dr. Spanta, however, contends …

The Afghan government and the Taliban will go ahead with peace talks in Doha in the near future. The prisoners’ release process eventually after so many ups and downs came to an end. Tiny issues still remain unsolved, but it will not damage the prospect of the peace process. Both …

AT News KABUL: At least 46 Taliban insurgents were killed and 37 others wounded in clashes with the Afghan security forces in the North of Afghanistan. The 209 Shaheen corps said Friday in a statement that Taliban planed to set attacks on security forces in Qaisar district of Faryab, with …

AT News KABUL: A large number of residents of central Ghazni took out to the Kabul-Kandahar highway to give vent to their concerns over intensification of insecurity in capital city of the province. The protestors, who called for the dismissal of the local officials, blocked the Kabul-Kandahar Highway. Abdulmanan, an …

Kabul peace team was expected to fly to Doha on Friday but postponed because Taliban negotiators face visa problems and some other troubles in Pakistan AT News KABUL: The Afghan government’s peace negotiating delegation’s visit to Qatar was once again postponed due to several problems their Taliban interlocutors face in …

Durrani accused the US of bribing the Taliban by secretly paying them $500 million annually AT Monitoring Desk KABUL:  Former chief of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Asad Durrani said that President Ashraf Ghani has no role in Afghanistan in the future. In an interview with Pakistan Today, Durrani said that …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai met with the chairman of the high council for national reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, discussing the finalization of the council’s leading members. During the meeting they exchanged views on the peace process and pledged to do their utmost for its success. The council said …

AT News KABUL: Some 2,000 families have displaced their villages as the new surge if violence threatened their lives in the northwestern province of Faryab. Clashes between Taliban insurgents and government forces forced these people to flee their houses in the Qaisar district, according to provincial governor Naqibullah Fayeq. He …