AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the reconciliation council in a visit to India, met with Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi. Indian top diplomat announced his country’s support to the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan, Abdullah’s spokesman Mojib Rahimi said Friday. Jaishankar called peace in Afghanistan …
Read More »President’s aides sow seeds of ethnic divide, Rabbani
AT News KABUL: Salahuddin Rabbani, leade of Jamiat, a former jihadi party accused a circle inside the presidential palace of consciously spreading and intensifying hatreds and conflicts in Afghanistan to divide ethnic groups. Speaking among his supporters Friday in his birthplace Badakhshan province, Rabbani warned against tough consequences of ethnic …
Read More »6 soldiers killed in Taliban attacks in Kunduz
AT News KABUL: At least six government were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in Kunduz, a northeastern province bordering Tajikistan. The attacks took place in the Ali Abad district, sources in the local government said Friday, without introducing themselves. The sources said that another six government forces were …
Read More »‘American defeat and Taliban victory’ is a false narrative, Khurram
AT News KABUL: Peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar are a very positive step and we Afghans can reap its benefits if we come to our senses and grab the opportunity, according to Abdul Karim Khurram, who was Chief of Staff during former President Hamid Karzai. Under President Karzai, …
Read More »Spanta says pressure to conduct peace talks based on US-Taliban deal, a colonial approach
AT News KABUL: Many have succumbed to fears that their criticism of the Taliban-US behavior in the Doha peace talks could lead to their alignment with the current Afghan government, according to Dr. Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, national security advisor to former President Hamid Karzai, who was referring to the conduct …
Read More »China donates $1m medical supplies to Afghanistan
We expect China to play a more positive and constructive role in consolidating peace and economic development in the region and in Afghanistan; VP Danesh AT News KABUL: China has donated medical supplies worth $1 million to Afghanistan government to reinforce its fight against COVID-19. The consignment which includes nearly …
Read More »Trump announces full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by Christmas
Amid a nascent peace parley, a dwindling US military pressure will cede valuable leverage over the militants, which could give them a good reason to refrain from staying at the negotiating table AT News KABUL: President Donald Trump of the United States in a surprising announcement said that all US troops …
Read More »Veteran doctor abducted in Kabul city
By M. Parwiz Arian KABUL-A veteran doctor, who was working in a government hospital in the capital city, has been abducted in Kabul city by unknown armed men, sources said Friday. Muhibullah Barakzai was working in the government-run Jamhoriat hospital of the Kabul city. He was in-charge of the emergency …
Read More »Man shot dead his wife in northern Afghanistan
By M. Parwiz Arian KABUL- A young woman has been shot dead by her husband in northwestern Faryab province of the country in an incident which is still under investigation, according to the officials. The unfortunate incident happened in the insecure Garziwan district of northwestern Faryab province of the country …
Read More »Militants dynamite newly constructed school in Kandahar
By M. Parwiz Arian KABUL- Unknown armed militants have blown up a newly constructed school building by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in southern Kandahar province of the country on Friday night, officials said. The newly constructed school building was destroyed in 2nd Camp area of Zerai district of southern Kandahar …
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