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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Taliban freed two Westerners they had held for more than three years on Tuesday, in exchange for the release of three senior members of the Haqqani network, the New York Times reported.  Sources told TOLOnews that the handover took place in Zabul province. Kevin King, 63, from …

AT News Report KABUL: Deputy of Chief Executive Office and a member of presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah’s team, Mohammad Mohaqiq said the presidential election has been engaged in crisis and that the situations were out of Independent Election Commission’s control.   He lambasted United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) …

“No one has the right to announce election results until disputed votes cleared” AT News Report KABUL: Presidential hopeful and leader of “Hezb-e-Islami”, a political party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has accused the German company “Dermalog” of working in favor of one electoral team in the voting process of Afghanistan presidential polls. …

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of ongoing election tensions, a prominent elite and leader of “Hezb-e-Junbish” political party, Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on President Ashraf Ghani not to repeat “past history” and not to be in dreams of “suppressing” the citizens. “I am very concerned about security …

AT News Report KABUL: Some political leaders criticize President Ghani for what they allege “monopoly” of the upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations in the Chinese capital, saying that the talks should not be controlled by the government. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami party, who is competing in the presidential contests, said Tuesday …

AT News Report KABUL: Some analysts have called the foreigners interference in presidential polls a reason behind the election crisis in the country. The analysts protested that Sri Lanka’s presidential polls results were announced in only one day but Afghanistan’s election results have been gone for months. A member of …

AT News Report KABUL: The role of women throughout the Afghan peace process with the Taliban has been so far significant. There have been three rounds of intra-Afghan talks conducted between the Afghan political elites and the Taliban delegation. Two of them were in Moscow and the third one in …

AT News Report KABUL: The state minister in peace affairs, Abdul Salam Rahimi has held a meeting in Beijing with the newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Kabul, where both sides exchanged views over preparation of intra-Afghan talks, which is likely to be held in China. The state ministry for peace …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai on Monday met with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) head, Tadamichi Yamamoto and expressed concerns over the foreign interferences in the Afghanistan’s presidential elections. Karzai said that the UN office in Afghanistan should remain as an impartial international body …

AT News Report KABUL: Members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are true son of this soil who all the time echoed strong resolve to defend the country, a young politician said, while expressing his grave concerns over embroiling them into dirty political battles. ANDSF is the …