‘Night raids by US and suicide bombings by Taliban to be stopped’ AT News KABUL: Both the US and Taliban negotiators have agreed to stop attacks against each other, a measure taken in the newest round of negotiations began Saturday in Qatar, sources familiar with the negotiations said. The US …
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AT News KABUL: The high level of air pollution in Kabul, the capital city, has brought serious concerns among the citizens and health officials, saying that such issues pose dangerous health problems. A number of doctors said that air pollution has increased asthma and cancer among the Kabul residents. Meanwhile, …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) has said it has signed a cooperation deal on information sharing with Afghanistan’s National Procurement Authority. The agreement was signed as part of a business meeting organized by DEIK’s Turkey-Afghanistan Business Council, it said. Business representatives and officials discussed economic relations, …
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Renewed negotiations expected to pave the way for intra-Afghan talks to end merciless war AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has strongly welcomed the resumption of peace talks between US and the Taliban, hoping this round of negotiations to end the war and violence in the country. The first …
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AT News ISTANBUL: Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Idrees Zaman has met Mr. Markus Potzel, Special Representative of Germany for Afghanistan, where they talked important Afghan related issues. Both sides discussed issues of mutual interests, ministry of foreign affairs said on Sunday. “The focus was given to the peace talks …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The body of physician Tetsu Nakamura, a devoted aid worker who was killed in a shooting four days earlier in Afghanistan, was brought back to Japan on Sunday by members of his family. The 73-year-old Nakamura, an Afghan Japanese origin, and his five Afghan comrades were killed …
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AT News KABUL: At least 25 Taliban insurgents have been killed in separate operations carried out by the Afghan security forces in southern Zabul and Uruzgan provinces, Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday. The statement said at least 14 Taliban were killed in an airstrike conducted in …
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AT News KABUL: Presidential candidate, Faramarz Tamanna stopped running for presidency, announcing support to President Ashraf Ghani who is also one of the nearly a dozen of hopefuls. In a joint statement with Ghani’s electoral team, Tamanna asked for the sooner announcement of preliminary results, saying that he was program-centered …
Read More »Dr. Rajkumar Singh The current era of post–cold war international order saw various characterisations: unipolar, multipolar and now nopolar. The call for new world order proclamation about the end of history and warning about imminent clash of civilizations had attempted to describe the international scenario during 1990s. In shifting, contemporary …
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AT News KABUL: Officials in northern Faryab province said Saturday that at least four members of a family including women killed in a mortal firing in Balchiragh district of the province. Karim Yourush, provincial police spokesman said that the incident took place on Friday late evening, where five other civilians …
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