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Ceasefire plea insist as Afghan and Taliban announce breakthrough on procedure for peace talks, demonstrating that the negotiating parties could agree on other issues as well to eventually reach an agreement to end deadly war Mujeeb R. Awrang KABUL: Finally after nearly three months of discussion, Afghanistan and Taliban peace …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 263 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 46,980 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. These cases reported positive from 1,358 suspected samples — 75 positive cases recorded in Kabul, 34 …

AT News KABUL: Vice President Amrullah Saleh said that the government would investigate the Kabul Bank (KB) fraud and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. As part of his regular 06:30 mooring session, Saleh in a statement said that the government would seize a residence of an individual who …

AT News KABUL: Fawzai Koofi, a member of Afghan negotiating team believes that peace talks are complicated and takes time. Speaking at an online discussion titled ‘International partnership for peace’, Koofi said Wednesday that governing system in the future, political partnership and ceasefire are the difficult parts of the peace …

AT News KABUL: November was called as the deadliest month in Kabul since January with 15 terrorist attacks killing and injuring dozens of civilians and security forces, according to interior ministry. Tareq Aryan, interior ministry spokesman, said Wednesday that the attacks were carried out by different terrorist networks. “A car …

‘Stop traveling around – determining reconciliation council is important for national consensus on the peace’ AT News KABUL: Political analysts hardly criticize Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the reconciliation council for getting busy in overseas tours and not finalizing the shape of the council. The analysts said Tuesday that Abdullah …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 219 new positive cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 46,717 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Tuesday. These cases come positive out of 1,650 suspected samples – 88 positive cases were recorded in …

AT News KABUL: Sources close to the ongoing peace negotiations for Afghanistan, say that the Afghan and Taliban delegations are to start talking on agenda for the main negotiations. The two sides have not recently held meetings, but Qatari officials have tried to provide facilities for them. The sources say …

By Rafiullah Anwari KABUL: Four Taliban militants, who were behind target killing and placing sticky mines were detained by Afghan security forces during operation in Kabul, defense official said Tuesday. These Taliban rebels were arrested during a crackdown carried out by Afghan Army forces in Paghman district on Monday night, …

AT News KABUL: The coronavirus pandemic has hampered treatment of the HIV/AIDS patients in Afghanistan, the ministry of public health says. An HIV patient, who spoke anonymously, said Tuesday that he felt the illness some five years ago and the doctors confirmed that he was infected by the disease. “I …