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“Inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue essential to advance pace push” AT News Report KABUL: The US and Russian Special Envoy for Peace in Afghanistan have backed and agreed all-inclusive intra-Afghan dialogue which is essential to advance the current peace efforts, where the next round of talks between US official and Taliban representative …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: ISIS’ Afghanistan-based affiliate has emerged as a major threat capable of carrying out direct attacks on the US and is actively using its members’ social media to acquire contacts in the United States, a US intelligence official in Afghanistan tells CNN. “They are closest to having …

AT News Report KABUL: Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong has reaffirmed China’s consistent support for Afghanistan’s efforts in national reconciliation to help bring peace in the war-hit country. He also assured of deepening counter-terrorism cooperation with Kabul administration with hope Afghanistan could play more significant role in the Belt …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The government of Pakistan on Tuesday has sought the UN’s urgent intervention to defuse tensions with India after it threatens to use force against Pakistan and abandon a vital treaty following one of the worst terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in which over 40 Indian …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: KABUL: The Swedish student who livestreamed her efforts to stop an Afghan asylum-seeker from being deported has reportedly been fined, media reported Tuesday. Elin Ersson, 21, was indicted in October by Swedish prosecutors for breaking aviation laws but was fined 3,000 Swedish krona, which translates to roughly $324 in U.S. currency, …

AT News Report KABUL: Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, who is currently in a today days visit to Pakistan—a neighboring state that Kabul administration has so many issues with, said Monday that peace in Afghanistan is in the best interest of entire region that all would be …

AT Monitoring Desk Holding Pakistan responsible for the attack, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement that the US “condemns in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attack by a Pakistan-based terrorist group”. The US on Thursday called on Pakistan to “end immediately” its support …

AT News Report KABUL: The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday called on President Asrhaf Ghani on the sideline of Munich Security Conference 2019, where they discussed current peace efforts including Consultative Loya Jiga (traditional grand assembly) to be convened next month to seek ways …

“Collective efforts require to root terrorism out” AT News Report KABUL: Terrorism is a cancer in the region and its elimination requires collective efforts, President Ashraf Ghani said this in reaction to a deadly terrorist attack in India that killed 37, wounding five others. President Ghani strongly condemned the terrorist …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Russia believes there would be no power vacuum in Afghanistan after the US withdraw its troops from the war-stricken country, and the Taliban—an extremist group where US currently engaged in peace talks with its representatives, can be trusted as an allay to fight Daesh terrorist outfit. …