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KABUL: Afghan delegates who have been invited to attend the Moscow summit next week vowed Sunday that they will defend Afghanistan’s ‘national and democratic values’at the talks. The talks will be held on 5th and 6th February but the Afghan government has not been invited to attend the talks in …

KABUL: A member of parliament believes that Russia tries to defeat the United States military in Afghanistan by challenging Washington’s peace efforts. “The Russian government works with all its power to defeat the United States troops in Afghanistan just as the Soviet troops were defeated in the 1980s. Russians want …

KABUL: Poppy cultivation has recently witnessed a 29 per cent decrease in the southern province of Uruzgan, according to local officials, an unprecedented move in an area where a big part of poppy was being cultivated in the past years. Juma Khan Bashiri, head of provincial counter-narcotics department,called public awareness …

KABUL: The High Peace Council hopes the upcoming meeting in Russia’s capital Moscow, would pave the ground for talks between the government and Taliban, as it is called a meeting organized by Afghans. “We hope such meetings that are organized by Afghans, facilitate dialogues between government and Taliban,” Sayed Ehsan …

KABUL: Presidential candidate Haneef Atmarsaid Sunday that Moscow conference will be a turning point for an inclusive ‘intra-Afghan dialogue’, announcing that he will attend the talks in Russia along with other leaders of the country. The talks will be held on 5th and 6th February but the Afghan government has …

KABUL: The government has begun discussions over appointing of new electoral commissioners. The Free and Fair Electoral Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) said Sunday that the new commissioners would be appointed through a consensus between government, presidential candidates and political parties, while they were previously appointed by a selection committee. Head …

KABUL: The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Afghanistan on Sunday launched an appeal highlighting a total of 6.3 million people in dire need of support, including 3.8 million children. The UN agency appealed for $50 million to provide much-needed lifesaving support to more than 570,000 children with basic health and nutrition packages, water, sanitation …

KABUL: The rebel Taliban has demanded the dissolution of the national army to halt nearly two decades of fighting, but President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday flatly refused the call and instead demanded the insurgents fight without carrying out suicide attacks and bombs. “Those who are forcefully bringing others to negotiate …

AT-KABUL: Deputy chief executive Mohammad Muhaqiq accuses President Ashraf Ghani of opposing the ongoing peace efforts, saying that the president doesn’t want peace to be established to keep his position. Muhaqiq who was addressing his supporters on Friday in Kabul, said that Ghani was thinking how to protect his power …

AT-KABUL: Representatives from Taliban political office are set to hold meetings with the heads of political and jihadi parties in Moscow, sources close to the group have said, a session to be held between groups who fought for several years. The meeting is planned to be held on February 5th …