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AT News KABUL: Amid solid preparations for intra-Afghan negotiations, Dr, Abdullah Abdullah said Tuesday that both sides will be starting direct peace talks in coming days, appealing for calm with the militant group. “We have no enemy in our homeland,” Dr. Abdullah said, “And that’s why we should end enmity …

AT News KABUL: The Taliban insurgents on Tuesday attacked on Panjshir province and took a number of local residents hostage, local officials confirmed. The clashes between the militants and security forces continuing in Abshar district of the province. Mohammad Suhrab Suhrab, district governor put the number of assailants to around …

AT News KABUL: Former Spy Chief, Rahmatullah Nabil said that the Taliban would not sit for talks with the government team until a senior member of the group was released. “I think the Taliban will not start talks in Doha till the release of Haji Basheer Noorzai,” Nabil said in …

AT News KABUL: The ministry of public health on Tuesday said it has registered 26 new covid-19 patients while three other patients lost their lives to the virus during the past 24 hours. These cases were recorded positive from 160 suspected samples, according to the ministry. In this period of …

AT News KABUL: First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh rejected any compromise with the Taliban, saying that sitting with the group for peace talks doesn’t meant to surrender to their wills and ideas. He said that the people want to live with their enemy under a peaceful umbrella. Saleh who was …

AT News KABUL: Mohammad Karim Khalili, former chairman of the high peace council, rejected the Taliban’s governance system of Emirate, saying it would “never return under the peace title”. Khalili also called on the foreigners to respect the wills of the people of Afghanistan. Speaking on the occasion of the …

AT News KABUL: As Afghanistan is bracing for peace negotiations, Taliban militants say 100 prisoners remain jailed and they will not take part in intra-Afghan talks until Kabul government releases them. The Afghan government said last weekend all 5,000 Taliban inmates had been freed except only 6, fulfilling the most …

AT News KABUL: The US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday met with head of Taliban’s political office Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Hakim Haqqani the newly appointed chief negotiator for the insurgent group in the Persian Gulf Arab state of Qatar. Mohammad Naeem Wardak, Taliban’s …

AT News KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai urged on the intra-Afghanistan, saying the peace talks would help to fulfill the hopes of the “martyrs”. Karzai issued a message on the occasion of the Martyr’s Week. He said in the messaged that marking the martyr’s week and the death anniversary of …

AT News KABUL: Some reports say Taliban militants in their Qatar-based political office have deep differences as the group is prepared to hold peace negotiations with the government of Afghanistan. “There are some issues that Taliban need to be prepared for regarding the peace negotiations. Our information says that they …