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AT News KABUL: Pentagon has denied the report which says that US hoodwinked people about the 18 years long war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post has published a report that US officials have lied to the people that Pentagon was progressing Afghanistan’s conflict. According to the governmental documents, published by …

AT News KABUL: Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mitsuji Suzuka, on Monday vowed to complete the projects left half-done in Afghanistan by the slain Dr. Nakamura. According to reports, the Japanese aid worker, Dr. Nakamura, have been serving the people of Afghanistan for nearly 30 years, initially in medical sphere but …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Stating that the presence of foreign forces has never brought stability in the region, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that there is no military solution in Afghanistan. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday delivered a speech at the 8th Ministerial Conference of …

AT News KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says that he sees “no need for preconditions” to negotiations with Taliban. Ghani who was speaking at the 8th Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference in Turkey on Monday, said that his seven-article peace plan includes suggestions of Afghan people as well as international community. …

AT News KABUL: Taliban Spokesman, Sohail Shahin says that the insurgent group would hold talks with the government of Afghanistan and some Afghan political leaders some 10 after they reach a final deal with the United States. Shahin who is spokesman for the group’s political office in Qatar, where the …

AT New ISTANBUL: On the sideline of the 8th Heart of -Asia Istanbul Process Ministerial Conference on Monday, high- ranking delegates of Afghanistan, U.S. and Uzbekistan met to discuss issues of common interest and important areas of cooperation. Acting Foreign Minister Idrees Zaman met with the Special Representative of Uzbekistan’s …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) has said it has signed a cooperation deal on information sharing with Afghanistan’s National Procurement Authority. The agreement was signed as part of a business meeting organized by DEIK’s Turkey-Afghanistan Business Council, it said. Business representatives and officials discussed economic relations, …

AT News ISTANBUL: Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Idrees Zaman has met Mr. Markus Potzel, Special Representative of Germany for Afghanistan, where they talked important Afghan related issues. Both sides discussed issues of mutual interests, ministry of foreign affairs said on Sunday. “The focus was given to the peace talks …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The body of physician Tetsu Nakamura, a devoted aid worker who was killed in a shooting four days earlier in Afghanistan, was brought back to Japan on Sunday by members of his family. The 73-year-old Nakamura, an Afghan Japanese origin, and his five Afghan comrades were killed …

AT News KABUL: Sources close to the peace talks say that both Americans and Europeans are working hard to hold the third round of the intra-Afghan negotiations in Germany, an effort after the talks planned to be held in China was postponed for a long time. The sources said Saturday …