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AT News KABUL: The Taliban will risk losing power in Afghanistan if an inclusive government is not formed, Russian special envoy Zamir Kabulov told Sputnik on Friday. “Ethnic political inclusiveness is needed. They might lose power in the near future if they keep acting like that. They will have to …

AT News KABUL: A US media report has revealed that US airstrikes conducted with imprecise targeting and “deeply flawed intelligence killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. The New York Times reported that the civilian death toll was a lot higher than the 188 deaths reported in Afghanistan and the …

AT News KABUL: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Sunday sought cooperation of Central Asian nations to help provide aid to Afghanistan and ensure the Taliban form an inclusive and representative government in the country. At the third India-Central Asia Dialogue on Sunday, India and five Central Asian countries called …

AT News KABUL: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday lashed out at Pakistani Prime Minister for attempting an “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech at the summit of Organization of Islamic Countries on Sunday in Islamabad said that Pakistan faced threat from Islamic …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan faced growing criticism in Afghanistan on Sunday after making controversial and insulting remarks about Afghanistan and its people. His comments drew condemnation from Afghan politicians, journalists and people. The controversial statements were made on Sunday Islamabad at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s …

AT News KABUL: The economic collapse of Afghanistan would have a “horrendous” impact on the region and the world, successive speakers warned Sunday at the start of a one-day summit of foreign ministers from dozens of Islamic countries. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Islamabad brought together dozens of foreign …

AT News KABUL: With the value of Afghani currency falling, already severe economic crisis is worsening which exacerbates poverty in a country where more than half the population already does not have enough to eat. The afghani lost more than 11 percent of its value against the United States dollar …

AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has said that he had invited Taliban to enter Kabul before the takeover of the country’s capital city on August 15. In a shift in the popular narrative, Karzai revealed that he had invited the Taliban, who had agreed to wait outside of Kabul, to discuss a …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s healthcare is dealt a devastating blow amid a rapidly shrinking economy and an acute cash squeeze, with hospital already running out of diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients. The Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital, the only COVID-19 facility for the more than four million …

AT News KABUL: The UN’s special representative for Afghanistan warned on Wednesday that Afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe and its collapsing economy is heightening the risk of extremism. Deborah Lyons said the United Nations predicts that 60% of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face crisis levels of …