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AT-KABUL: The United States Principal Deputy Assistance Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells in separate meetings Monday with the top Afghan leadership discussed key issues including peace, security and counterterrorism. The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah said he had a constructive meeting with Wells where they shed …

By Farhad Naibkhail-KABUL: French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC) on Saturday launched the 8th quality improvement and patient safety convention to boost up health care services. The program was attended by different governmental officials, representatives of private and governmental hospital and doctors preset presentation and seek outgoing ways …

AT News Report-KABUL: A former member of Taliban says that the United States is not honest in the peace process of Afghanistan. Sayed Akbar Agha, who now leads the Council for Saving Afghanistan said Saturday in Khost province that despite appointing Zalmai Khalilzad as envoy for Afghan peace process, Donald …

More than twenty Taliban militants were killed in a skirmish between security forces and insurgent Taliban in southeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Friday. Two policemen have been injured in the clashes that erupted 48 hours ago in Dasht Shewa area of the Arghanj Khwa district, the provincial governor’s spokesmanNaik Mohammad …

Insurgents loyal to Taliban extremist group have captured a key police base in northern Faryab province after staging a dramatic assault and engaging in ferocious combat with armed forces, killing three security personnel and taking seventeen hostages, authorities said Friday. The rebels waged the coordinated attack on the public order …

AT-KABUL: Former jihadi leader, Mohammad Ismael Khan said an interim administration needed to be shaped ahead of the next year’s presidential election. A senior commander during the jihad years against the then Soviet troops and the Soviet-backed government, Khan was working as the governor of the western Herat province in …

AT-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has said he welcomes and supports the new efforts regarding the peace process in Afghanistan. In an interview with the Associated Press, Karzai has also welcomed the joining of five Taliban members who had been freed from the Guantanamo prison to the group’s political office …

AT-KABUL: Officials in the country’s north say about a 20 per cent increase of immunity of punishment of those who commit crimes against journalists, saying that 95 per cent of reporters’ murder culprits are free from punishment. These officials asked the central government to put an end to the immunity …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani said he would work hard to help the nomad grow and develop their animal husbandry and offer its products to the market. He vowed this in a meeting with the nomad youth Friday in office. Ghani asked the youth to share their schemes over the development …

The Moscow conference on the Afghan peace initially expected as early as November is still in uncertainty as the government of Afghanistan has not reached an agreement with Russia over the date and other things of the meeting. The High Peace Council a body responsible to establish peace talks with …