Afghanistan Times

KABUL: The Taliban has said they are not seeking a monopoly on power in a future administration in Afghanistan, and rather are looking for ways to co-exist with Afghan institutions.a Taliban’s spokesman Shaheen Suhail on Wednesday told AP from Qatar that “Once US forces withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban want …

KABUL: The Qatari government has promised any cooperation for settlement of peace talks between the government of Afghanistan and Taliban militants, the High Peace Council said. The council spokesman, Sayed Ehsan Taheri said Wednesday that representative of Qatari foreign ministry, Mutlaq al Qahtani met with the chairman of the high …

KABUL: The Taliban’s top negotiator says the Americans are serious about withdrawing from Afghanistan, thereby caving to a longstanding demand of the militant group. “I think the US is very serious about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan,” said Sher Abbas Stanikzai, who led the Taliban at peace negotiations with the United …

KABUL: The U.S. Department of Defense has said that peace negotiations between Washington and the Taliban are ‘encouraging’ but need more time to culminate into a substantial result. The U.S. acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday said the negotiators should be given time, describing the talks as encouraging. “Now …

KABUL: Tribal elders and influential figures in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday voiced their support of the ongoing peace efforts. They said the war had been imposed on Afghans, calling on the government to put an end to the current war. The tribal elders also said the peace …

KABUL: The Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA), a non-government electoral monitoring says that some evil demands from women during the elections caused them refrain from contesting in the votes. The body also expressed concerns of what it called “restricted freedoms and dual behaviors” against women in the …

KABUL: Political analysts believe that only an interim administration could help the ongoing peace process succeed. Although the United States and some regional countries are making efforts to find a way to put an end to the Afghan war, Taliban militants have not yet said ‘YES’ to requests over sitting …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Moscow urges Washington to complete the probe into the US troops’ erroneous air strikes against civilians in Afghanistan and hold culprits liable, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a commentary circulated on Wednesday. Over the past week alone, the US indiscriminate air strikes in Afghanistan have killed about 35 …

By Mansoor Faizy and Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: There is an immediate need to chalk out a comprehensive plan to grab the unprecedented peace opportunity as scaremongers and conspiracy theorists don’t help rather make things more complicated. In the wake of progress in Doha talks, US and Taliban members presented the …

AT-KABUL: The government of Indonesia has reaffirmed commitments for bringing peace to Afghanistan. Special Envoy of Vice President of Indonesia for Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Awaluddin said this in talks with the Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani. Mr. Awaludin reaffirmed his country’s commitments for bringing peace to Afghanistan and expressed his country’s …