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AT-KABUL: The armed Taliban insurgents have kidnapped at least nineteen passengers from Kandahar-Uruzgan highway, provincial official lamented on Wednesday. The latest incident of kidnapping happened in Kandahar-Uruzgan highway near Khansheen district of Kandahar province, where the Afghan security forces have been battling the insurgents in some parts of Uruzgan province. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With putting weight behind Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process, the Trump administration doesn’t see the Taliban insurgents to be ready for peace talks. US directly ruled out direct negotiations with the Taliban insurgents, something sought by the extremist group in an open letter to the …

AT-KABUL: The Kabul process conference on Wednesday has created a vibe of pessimism about ensuring peace and uprooting terrorism in Afghanistan. The second session of the Kabul Process was held Wednesday in Kabul with participation of representatives from more than 25 countries and international organization with the aim to draw …

AT-KABUL: Hundreds of civil society activists, tribal leaders and politicians staged on Wednesday a demonstration in Baghlan province against Pakistan’s fomenting terrorism and causing destruction Afghanistan. The protest urged the international community to declare Pakistan as a terror sponsoring state and impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on it. The protesters …

AT-KABUL: The increased growth of the Daesh insurgency in Kunar province has infuriated people in the eastern province of Kunar, bordering Pakistan’s tribal belt. The provincial council says that the Daesh terrorist group has an increasing presence in Kunar, warning that a “big tragedy” would take place if the government …

AT-KABUL: The Kabul Process and Tashkent Conferences on the Afghan peace will expand sound regional relations, Haneef Atmar, National Security Adviser said in a meeting with Uzbekistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan Esmatullah Ergashiv on Tuesday. Atmar discussed bilateral relations and the achievements of his visit to Tashkent with Ergashiv. Ergashiv …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s criminal justice body said on Tuesday that 27 people including a women have been arrested in the past week over drug trafficking charges. The Court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) in a statement said 27 smugglers were apprehended by the counternarcotics police forces after intensive crackdown operations …

AT-KABUL: A network consisting of twelve terrorists has been busted in a string of crackdown operations in southern Kandahar city by the intelligence special forces. Afghan intelligence operatives have arrested 12 Taliban fighters in Kandahar city, said a press statement issued by National Directorate of Security. The terrorist group was …

AT-KABUL: Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen has strongly condemned the recent wave of suicide attacks in Afghanistan and termed it un-Islamic. Ahead of the 2nd Kabul Process Conference to be held today, the statement of the Secretary General of OIC is of tremendous …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s bodyguard has been stabbed to death in Kabul, the capital city, in the jurisdiction of the 3rd police district, an official said on Tuesday. Commenting on the issue, Nasrat Rahimi, Deputy Spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, has confirmed the death of President’s bodyguard—whose …