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Peace talks with Taliban failed; HPC a symbolic body; Afghan officials lack consensus over peace with militants; women’s status will become worse after peace deal; Taliban fight for Pakistan’s interest AT-KABUL: Pakistan, regional countries, the United State and the West see their interests in war and insecurity in Afghanistan, a …

AT-KANDAHAR: Unknown gunmen gunned shot a female police officer, working for the passport office in the southern Kandahar province, provincial spokesman Samim Khapalwak said Monday. “She died on the spot,” Khapalwak said, adding that the incident took place in the PD 13 in the Kandahar city. He identified the woman …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Police Chief of the southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq, said that there was only way to get rid of insecurity and that is to reduce the militants’ hideouts on ‘foreign lands’ to rubbles. “If the United States and the international community really want to put …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The government drafted the ‘national strategy’ for the youth, an effort apparently to provide life facilities and job opportunities as well as to prevent the youth’s escape from the country. Deputy culture minister Kamal Sadat who is in charge of the youth affairs hopes the strategy …

AT-KABUL: Scores of Afghan senators on Sunday alleged Pakistan of playing double game with Afghanistan, and urged Islamabad to stop interfering into internal affairs of the country. Criticizing Pakistan for the cross Durand-Line attacks in Kunar and Nangarhar, the senators said that due to its insincerity and dual policy, Pakistan …

AT-KABUL: The New Beginning Network launched its second discussion as part of the “Academic Discourse Series 2016” with scholars, intellectuals and members of civil society in Kabul and urged the government to include positive cultural values in its national development strategies for peace, national unity and sustainable economic development. Dr …

AT-KABUL: The Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, had nodded to participate in the four-nation brokered Afghan peace talks, likely to be held in Pakistan, the group said in a media statement on Sunday. The Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG), comprising of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China, had …

Jabha-i-Milli Afghanistan leader Anwarul Haq Ahadi on Saturday said the government’s efforts at peace had failed to produce any result and called the peace process a “failure.” Addressing hundreds of people at a party gathering in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Ahadi said Pakistan had either no influence …

AT-KABUL: The first round of the university entrance test was kicked off Saturday in Kabul universities, followed by the exams held in the provinces. Minister of Higher Education Farida Mohmand said that 43,000 high school graduates had enrolled for the test, but 45,000 ones were expected to attend in Kabul …

AT-KABUL: The Afghanistan Peace Foundation and Jahesh Organization alleged that the Government Media and Information Center had not helped them holding a program, accusing it of hampering it “intentionally”. “The Peace Foundation and Jahesh Organization held the peace festival program on Thursday in the Government Media Center hall, but it …