AT News TASHKENT: Deputy Foreign Minister for Management and Resources, Naheed Esar attended the 9th annual political consultation meeting of Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian states and Afghanistan. The meeting, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by the initiative of the UN regional office on proactive diplomacy, stressed the joint …

AT News ABU DHABI: Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Munira Yousufzada has met with Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of the United Arab Emirate (UAE) at the headquarters of the ministry in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, both sides discussed their joint cooperation in …

AT News KABUL: The ‘Stability and Partnership’ electoral team headed by CEO Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday demanded the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to re-conduct the vote recount and audit process in 27 provinces of the country. Fairadoon Khwazoon, spokesperson for Abdullah’s team, said that a process where the observers of …

AT News KABUL: Members of Senate allege that the Special Forces imprison civilians in the southern province of Zabul for ransom and without any charges. The Special Force Unity also called as the Unit 01 is part of the National Directorate of Security. Senators said Sunday that the Special Forces …

AT News KABUL: The US envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad met former national security adviser Haneef Atamr in Qatar, discussing recent progresses on peace process. Khalilzad is in Qatar for peace negotiations with Taliban representatives. Atmar gave up running for presidency in the September 28th elections, but did not …

AT News KABUL: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) says it has started the recount process of polls in seven provinces, where supporters of presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah did not allow the process. According to the commission, recount and audit process in Punjshir and Jawzjan provinces have been completed. IEC technical …

AT News KABUL: US ambassador to Kabul, John Bass on Sunday expressing frustration over endemic corruption, said that foreign aids have not been spent in the proper ways and the money has ended up for personal interests by a “certain number of Afghans”. Addressing an event on International Anti-Corruption day …

In the wake of nearly more than two months of deadlock in terms of inordinately delaying the preliminary results of September 28th’s presidential election, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has been finally allowed to continue its vote recount and audit in the remaining seven provinces. The Stability and Partnership team …

AT News KABUL: A number of lawmakers in their Saturday session have engaged in verbal disputes over approval of children’s protection law as a number of parliamentarians had called the law in contrast Islamic rules and regulations. The third principle of the law has put the legal age of the …

AT Monitoring Desk An American writer, Eric S. Margolis in his latest article said that this week, the venerable Washington Post newspaper revealed a bombshell, 2,000 page, secret Pentagon report detailing the astounding failure of US war strategy in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. Americans have been fed a steady stream of lies …