AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: With the peace process between the US and the Taliban approaching its fruition, China has reportedly looked into the possibility of expanding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to the war-ravaged Central Asian country, Sputnik reported on Tuesday. A trilateral meeting between Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan will take …
Read More »Karzai condemns Kabul terrorist attack
AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned Monday’s terrorist attack in the Police District 9 that killed and injured a large number of civilians. Karzai said Tuesday in a statement that the attack was carried out apparently to target foreigners, but in fact the victims were only …
Read More »UN calls for end to violence in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: UN Envoy in Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto in a statement said that violence this week across Afghanistan underscores the urgency of ending the conflict through a negotiated settlement, adding the suffering of the Afghan people must end. “I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to family and …
Read More »Taliban suicide squad leave hundred casualties in Kabul amid peace deal
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Taliban suicide squad attack on a housing complex used by international origination in Police District 9th of Kabul, the capital city on Monday night, left 16 residents dead and 119 others, most of them civilians and children were injured. Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack, …
Read More »1st ever Afghanistan International ICT exhibition launches
AT News Report KABUL: The first ever Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) exhibition to bolster up information technology progresses has been lunched in Kabul on Tuesday. The exhibition was for three days in Continental Hotel that held by the Siam Event and Business Development Center and Ariana ICT in partnership with …
Read More »Fresh NDS personnel in Baghlan to wipe Taliban out
AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of great security tensions in the northern part of Afghanistan, the National Directorate of Security’ s operatives have arrived in Pul-e-Khumri, the capital city of northern Baghlan province, to abolish those Taliban fighters taken civilians homes as shields. NDS in a statement said …
Read More »Editorial: Aggrandized Taliban won’t stop
Spending about a year negotiating with the Taliban, the US envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad says US has reached a peace deal in principle – pending the approval of Afghan president and his US counterpart –to pull 5,400 troops out of Afghanistan in 135 days. Concurring with Khalilzad’s interview …
Read More »Ghani calls political leaders to discuss intra-Afghan dialogue
AT News Report KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani called political leaders to discuss the list of a delegate scheduled to attend the intra-Afghan dialogue, one day after the US special envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad met him to show the draft of an accord with Taliban and then outlined the …
Read More »NATO fully supports efforts to achieve peace in Afghanistan
AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of ongoing waves of violence lashed out by the Taliban group across Afghanistan with recent one in Kabul, the capital city, NATO top officials reaffirmed support to the Afghan security forces while endorsing the current efforts to achieve peace in the country. NATO …
Read More »“Taliban worried of rift among fighters”
AT News Report KABUL: A military and security analyst believes that Taliban militants have launched intensive attacks on some provincial capitals because they are afraid the peace deal with the United States causes their fighters to split. Ali Ahmad Jalali, lecturer at the American University of National Defense and former …
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