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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During the 2nd Iran-Afghanistan joint economic exhibition, Iranian and Afghan businessmen and firms inked contracts worth $2m, Iranian Commercial attaché in Afghanistan said. Iran, Afghanistan sign $2-million contract Mohammadreza Karimzade said that over 10,000 people visited the exhibition in 4 days which was unpredictable. He noted that …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Former security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta said that state-building process has failed in Afghanistan, urging powerful countries are strengthening ties with Taliban instead of the government. Giving good faces for Taliban by both the pervious and the current governments caused the international countries to legitimate Taliban and …

AT-KABUL: President Asrhaf Ghani and the US Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, who landed in Kabul on Friday in an unannounced visit, appeared before media, where Carter assured his country’s support to Afghanistan in fight against militants. US forces in Afghanistan would continue their counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan, he said, adding, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Security Adviser, Mohammad Haneef Atmar said that the terrorists’ sanctuaries and sources of funding are beyond Afghanistan’s borders. “The terrorists’ sanctuaries and sources of funding are beyond Afghanistan’s borders, which enabled the continuation of this war,” he said in an interview with the New York …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces foiled a plot by the armed militants to attack Kabul city with rockets, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Friday. In a media statement, the ministry said two rockets were confiscated before the militants managed to fire them on the city. “The counterterrorism forces discovered …

The United States has once again expressed its concern at “safe havens” Afghan Taliban groups, including the Haqqani network, are enjoying on Pakistan’s soil. State Department Deputy spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters on Thursday the US had consistently conveyed its concerns to the highest levels of government of Pakistan. “We …

Junaid Jamshed, Pakistan’s singer-turned preacher, among passengers on plane that went down in the north of country. A commercial aircraft carrying 47 people onboard crashed in northern Pakistan near the capital Islamabad, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said. PK 661 went down on Wednesday on a domestic flight from the mountainous …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of Parliament members strongly endorsed President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s recent stance against Pakistan in the Heart of Asia Conference. President Ghani on Sunday slammed Pakistan for exporting terror, providing them financial resources and hideouts. In his address at the 6th annual conference …

AT-KABUL: The Counter Narcotics Police (CNP) arrested 13 drug runners in the past one week, said officials Wednesday. Thirteen smugglers were apprehended by CNP through different crackdown and were handed over to Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) for further criminal proceedings, said a statement issued by CJTF. Statement said that …

AT-KABUL: At least 26 Taliban fighters were killed and 18 others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) with the cooperation of the Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security …