AT News Report KABUL: At least 11 police officers were killed by their own comrades in Kandahar province, local officials confirmed. The incident took place Friday night when two officers took guns and opened fire at their colleagues at an outpost in Damani area of the southern province’s district of …
Read More »The fate of the US led peace process in Afghanistan
Quite famous for his unpredictable and startling style of policy making on critical issues, the twitter obsessed President Trump called off the peace talks with Taliban after claiming that he was due to host Taliban and the Afghan president at camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, on Sunday, the …
Read More »People ask for security of Kabul-Bamyan highway
AT News Report KABUL: Resident of central areas ask the government to ensure security of the Kabul-Bamyan highway, warned that otherwise, the road linking Kabul to Kandahar would be closed and elections would face challenges in the central provinces. Representatives of the provinces of Wardak, Bamyan, Ghor and Daikundi, attended …
Read More »Editorial: Walking away, not an option!
The Afghan peace stakeholders should know better ground reality than seeking quick-fix solutions to the Afghan war and walking away from negotiations because dialogue makes things possible where abandoning it achieves nothing. The US President Donald Trump recently announced that negotiations with the Taliban – which had been ongoing for …
Read More »Russia welcome Taliban’s willingness to continue peace parleys
AT News Report KABUL: The Russian Federation on Friday said it welcomed the statement by the Taliban group regarding the continuation of peace talks with the United States, which has called off the peace talks and scrapped a peace deal agreed upon with the group ‘in principle’. The country’s Foreign …
Read More »NDS launches operation on Daesh stronghold in Kabul
AT News Report KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) says that its operatives with the cooperation of police forces, launched an operation on a Daesh stronghold in Kabul. The NDS said in a statement on Friday that Mohammad Hanif, an organizer of Daesh attacks was killed along with a …
Read More »Abdullah rejects Ghani’s order to probe corruption allegation in foreign ministry
AT News Report KABUL: Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah has reportedly rejected an order by President Ashraf Ghani over probing allegations about corruption in the ministry of foreign affairs. Abdullah who is competing Ghani in the presidential elections, has said in an order that such investigation could be a kind of …
Read More »Afghan war: Nearly 1,000 children killed last year: UN
AT News Report KABUL: The United Nations says that 927 children were killed during clashes in 2018 across Afghanistan. The Afghan Human Rights Commission, condemns the killing of children as human crime by the war parties, calling on them to end conflicts as soon as possible. The United Nations has …
Read More »US congressional panel to question Khalilzad on Taliban talks
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A U.S. Congressional committee has issued a subpoena to question President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, next week after peace talks with the Taliban abruptly ended. Representative Eliot Engel (Democrat-New York), the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, said …
Read More »Afghan govt., people should be part of peace bid: India
AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Days after US President Donald Trump called off negotiations with the Taliban group, India said that any peace process should have full consent of the Afghan government and the people. Addressing a weekly briefing, Raveesh Kumar, a spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, said India …
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