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AT-KABUL: The infrastructure of the Kabul-Paktia energy project is nearing its completion. The imported energy will add 220 KW of electricity to the national power grid. Kabul deputy provincial governor in a meeting with the project engineers on Saturday said his office had ordered district chiefs of Paghman, Char Asiab …

Since decades, Afghanistan has been famed as a museum of variant ethnicities. This nation has been in the fell clutch of increasingly oddly unpredictable circumstances. There was a time when Khorasan was a territory that prided itself on its rich and diverse culture. But what had happened to have inadvertently …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s defense ministry says it plans to recruit 36,000 to form regional defense forces. Proposed by the defense ministry, the plan was approved by President Ashraf Ghani. The government calls the establishment of the new force as “based on necessity”. “We started working on the plan after the president …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s traders’ body says it does not trust Pakistan to cooperate in resolving transit and trade challenges confronting Afghan businessmen. After tensions raised between Kabul and Islamabad over the latter making troubles for the transit of the Afghan merchandise via Karachi sea port, Pakistan is said to facilitate export-import …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chinese Ambassador to Kabul on Friday met representatives of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and pledged Beijing’s continued contributions to the reconstruction and economic development of Afghanistan and assistance to IDPs, Chinese media reported Saturday. During the meeting the Chinese Ambassador, Liu Jingsong and the representatives of IDPS …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Rebelling against the incumbent Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Mansour group has emerged in the eastern Nangarhar province, resulting in a division in the militant group. The new Taliban splinter group has been distributed letters in Khogyani, Pachirawgam Chaparhar and other districts of the province in which the …

The era of peace opportunity has been unfold in such a mass way that everyone is looking optimistic. The twice call of the Taliban insurgents for peace talks, though not with Afghan government, but with US, even further created atmosphere, in which possibility of peace talks is getting more visible …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday offered to the Taliban ‘a comprehensive plan for peace’ which could lead to a reconciliation aimed at ending 16 years of war. The president unveiled a clear proposition for unconditional talks with the Taliban as a political group, at the start of …

Interim government of the erstwhile president and then his successors have incessantly desperately sought out due attention of the world community to internal predicaments of Afghanistan. The desperation has been unraveled in various formats – one being an international conference of peace cooperation to echo the major problems and contemplate …

AT-KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the Afghan government’s renewed call for unconditional peace talks with the Taliban and the outlining of a framework for peace, presented at the Kabul Process II conference in the Afghan capital on Wednesday. Together with the 25 countries and international organizations …