AT News Report KABUL: People in Wardak province say that Afghan and foreign forces launch night operations there that make security problems for them. The residents say that the night raids mostly target helpless civilians instead of Taliban fighters. These people say that government officials do not pay attention to …
Read More »Afghan ambassador to Tashkent fired
AT News Report KABUL: Sayed Shahabuddin Taimoori, ambassador to Uzbekistan has been dismissed from his post. Taimoori was serving as Afghan envoy in the Central Asian country for two years, but was fired by the government before completing his service term that is three years. Taimoori hosted a meeting held …
Read More »Zakhilwal asks peace hurdlers to restrain from sensational messages
AT News Report KABUL: Former Afghan Ambassador to Islamabad, Omar Zakhilwal asks those involved in the peace efforts to avoid offering sensational messages, adding that the value of peace was much higher than power, position and personal interests. He emphasized that the red lines over the peace efforts should not …
Read More »Ambiguity surrounds Baradar’s nonparticipation in Qatar talks
AT News Report KABUL: Taliban’s new political chief and head of Qatar Political Office, Mullah Baradar, will miss next round of peace talks with the US delegation in Qatar due to some reasons, including lack of traveling documents that preventing him from traveling abroad, Taliban sources told Afghanistan Times. Baradar, …
Read More »NUG sabotaging peace process : Khurram
Afghanistan since long years has been in a while of unending war, and unfettered turmoil, where peace is now like a distant dream. Even state of normalcy is far from expectation. It also been piled up in perpetual conflicts where peace and normalcy is far from the lens and seems …
Read More »China to form SCO Contact Group to help ‘end war in Afghanistan’
Beijing genuinely helps Afghanistan achieving peace, stability: Andarabi AT News Report KABAUL: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will form a Contact Group to help in a political settlement in Afghanistan to put an end to the long-lasted war. He made the remarks in a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart …
Read More »Afghanistan, Turkmenistan signed strategic cooperation agreement
AT News Report KABUL: Presidents of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan Ashraf Ghani, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov have signed an agreement on strategic cooperation between the two countries in Ashgabat on Thursday, according to Trend reports via Turkmenistan State News Agency. The cooperation are included agreements on customs cooperation and air traffic, on …
Read More »Afghanistan to speeds up prisoner swap process with Iran
AT News Report KABUL: Afghan authorities announced Wednesday to accelerate prisoners swap process with the neighboring Iran, where thousands of Afghan refugees have been imprisoned by Iranian judiciary for committing different crimes. The country’s judiciary authorities in a press briefing informed to speeds up prisoners exchange process to bring home …
Read More »Take actions against terrorism hideouts instead of irrelevant remarks: Kabul to Islamabad
By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: Kabul Administration on Wednesday asked Pakistan to make sincere efforts to curb terrorism instead of giving irrelevant remarks that they don’t help resolve any problem. Reacting to Pakistan’s ambassador’s remarks on recent suicide bombing in Indian administered Kashmir, Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Pakistan to refrain from …
Read More »Security forces kill 34 Taliban rebels in Ghazni
AT News Reports KABUL: Afghan Security Forces have killed 34 Taliban and wounded 56 others in anti-terroristic raid in central Ghazni province, officials said Wednesday. Army Commander Cl. Mohammad Nasim Sangin said the Afghan security forces conducted clearance operation on Ghazni-Paktika highway in Andar district, in which at least 34 …
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