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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on the Afghan government to include female negotiators in the upcoming multistate meeting on the Afghan peace process. Representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China are scheduled to meet on January 11, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The meeting …

AT-MAZAR-ISHARIF: Indian Ambassador to Kabul, Amar Sinha, on Tuesday said that bilateral relations between Afghanistan and India would not be harmed by attacking Indian diplomatic mission in Mazar-e-Sharif. At least nine people including five policemen were injured in an attack on the Indian consulate in Balkh province. Unfortunately, a policeman …

Police urges people to inform them if they notice any suspicious movement of insurgents By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday informed of holding steps for high security alert in the cities, while Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif were witnessing a series of bombings and terrorist attacks in the …

AT-KABUL: Afghan Border Police apprehended nine foreign terrorists in eastern Nangarhar province, the interior ministry said Tuesday. “The Afghan Border Police succeeded to arrest nine foreign terrorist in an ambush on Monday in Nazyan district,” said Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the ministry. He said that the terrorists were taken to …

WASHINGTON : Casualties among Afghan security forces soared 28 percent in 2015 as soldiers and police there fought a revitalized Taliban insurgency. In all, about 16,000 members of Afghanistan’s army and police forces were killed or wounded during fighting, according to figures released Monday. That was up from about 12,500 …

AT-KABUL: A policeman was injured on Tuesday in bomb blast in Jalalabad city, capital of the eastern Nangarhar province. The blast which was of low intensity took place near the Pakistani consulate. The consulates of Iran and India are not too far from the blast’s site. According to sources, an …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him on the last night attack on the Indian Consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province. According to a media statement issued by the India’s premier office, President Ghani also condemned the terrorist …

AT-KABUL: At least 29 people were injured in two suicide attacks on Monday in the capital city, Kabul. The first suicide attack took place near the Hamid Karzai International Airport. Fortunately, no casualty was reported. Chief of the 101st Asmayee security zone, Lt. Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, told media that …

There has been much hullabaloo over the upcoming quadrilateral meeting in Islamabad in mid-January. It is believed that Afghanistan, US, China and Pakistan would discuss ways to device new peace mechanism. After the mechanism is drafted, the Taliban will be asked to join the reconciliation process. According to Afghan and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have made major geopolitical progress in Afghanistan during last year, said the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the premier spy agency of the United States. Michael Morell predicted that Afghanistan would re-emerge as a pivotal foreign policy issue during the …