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AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned Thursday’s “terrorist attack” in Kabul that targeted civilians celebrating the New Year. “The attack in Kabul was aimed to prevent people from celebrating our traditions and customs, and to disrupt our peace,” Karzai said on Twitter. “I call this attack …

AT News Report KABUL: The domestic agricultural products would increase in the new year, government officials are optimistic. Minister of Agriculture said on Friday in a gathering to celebrate March 22 called Farmer’s Day in Kabul that “Afghanistan will reach self-sufficiency on the agricultural products” this year. He said that …

AT News Report KABUL: Another round of the intra-Afghans negotiations is scheduled for April 14 in the city of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a source said Friday, after the first meeting held in Russia’s capital Moscow. Omar Zakhilwal, former ambassador to Islamabad said that works going on for an …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The President of United States Donald Trump will not accept any bad deal with the Taliban about Afghanistan, said a Whitehouse official. According to the official, Trump will not accept any ignorance of the achievements, especially human rights and women rights, made in Afghanistan in the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Washington is willing to host a two-day meeting between ZalmayKhalilzad the US special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, and representatives from Russia, China and the European Union (EU), where they would shed lights over important Afghan issues according to the US Department for Foreign Affairs on Thursday. …

AT News Report KABUL: Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong held talks with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a senior political figure and have discussed Afghanistan-China relations and the Afghan peace process in a cordial setting. The two exchanged greetings for the upcoming Nowruz (Afghanistan’s New Year’s Day). Liu wished Afghanistan’s senior …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A report to the U.N. Human Rights Council says nascent peace talks in Afghanistan offer a glimmer of hope to a country that has been at war for decades. The United Nations said 2018 was a particularly deadly year in the war between the government of …

AT News Report KABUL: A landslide in eastern Kunar province has killed three children and five other people received injures, an official said Friday. Provincial Governor Spokesman Abdul Ghani Musamim said the incident occurred when the landslide swept a house in Asadabad, the provincial capital on Thursday night as result …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Germany’s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country’s first major post-war troop deployment to continue until March 31, 2020. The approval allows Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, which are mostly deployed in the north of Afghanistan, to keep up …

Now when the peace talks between US Special Envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad and Qatar-based Taliban leaders entered into a decisive stage, the Middle East Eye (MEE) – a website news source made some ironic disclosures. It states, “Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE crown prince proposed to set up an assassination …