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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. …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: With indication to provide conditions for a political and peaceful solution, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that there is no decision on the table regarding troop’s pullout from Afghanistan. “The aim is of course not to be in Afghanistan forever, the aim is to …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Two Moldovan pilots have been freed after spending 3 1/2 years in captivity in Afghanistan, President Igor Dodon has announced on Monday. “At the end of the week or the beginning of next week, I’ll fly to Moscow to return with the aviators to Chisinau,” Dodon …

KABUL: The US envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has said that Washington still has no timetable to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, brushing off claims by the rebel Taliban that a ‘military drawdown’ deal has been struck. Khalilzad said: “To be clear, no troop withdrawal timetable exists”. Taliban deputy …

KABUL: More than 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by landmines and explosive devices in 2018, making the number of war mine victims tripled since 2012, according to a survey by the United Nations. The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in a report said that the number of landmine …

AT-KABUL: Russia would cooperate with the US-Taliban negotiations over the US military pullout of Afghanistan, Russia’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov said, a statement came one day after the Moscow meeting, where for the first time Taliban negotiators sat around a table with politicians who were there from Kabul, …

AT News Report KABUL: The US Secretary Mike Pompeo in a telephonic conversation with President Ashraf Ghani, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to achieving a durable peace in Afghanistan. The secretary underscored Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad’s role in facilitating an inclusive peace process, US Department of State said …