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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A senior leader of KP based party “Awami National Party (ANA)” has put the ongoing peace talks sans inclusion of the Afghan government as a futile exercise. Addressing a function organized by the Bacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation at the University of Peshawar, the ANP central general …

KABUL: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on his trip to Moscow, his last stop on a whirlwind four-nation tour, according to a media report. The ministers talked about the revival of peace process in Afghanistan. They also discussed …

KABUL: The commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and U.S. forces in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller has said that no official order regarding withdrawal of half of the U.S. troops has been received yet. In a trip to eastern Nangarhar province, Miller visited the Army’s Selab Military Corps and held …

KABUL: Amid speculations doing the rounds vis-à-vis a possible U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, NATOhas touted resilience of Afghan army and police in ensuring security for the past four years. “We have seen the reports. For any comments, I refer you to the US authorities. In general, let me remind you …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A top Saudi diplomat says the oil-rich kingdom and the United Arab Emirates have worked hard to achieve success at the just-concluded Afghan reconciliation talks. Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, claimed Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had been able to …

KABUL: The U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 7,000 of the 14,000 troops from Afghanistan in the coming months amid a fatiguing war, US media outlets reported. In a report published on December 20, the New York Times quotes a US official saying that President Trump’s …

AT Monitoring Desk-TEHRAN: Iranian Border Guards Commander Brigadier General Qassem Rezayee hailed his country’s safe and secure borderline with Afghanistan, saying prevalence of security in the region is indebted to his forces’ preparedness and cooperation of the Afghan border troops. Commander of the Iranian Border Guards Brigadier General Qassem Rezayee …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iranian Deputy Culture Minister Mohammad Soltanifar,in a meeting with some members of Afghanistan’s Joint Committee of Governmentand Media, underlined that Tehran and Kabul should expand bilateral mediacooperation, and called for efforts to prevent the two countries’ ties fromfalling into political games. He stressed the need for promoting …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday saidthat Pakistan has provided assistance for the dialogue between the US andTaliban in the UAE and expressed hope the talks would be successful. “Pakistan has helped in the dialogue between Taliban and the US in Abu Dhabi. Let us pray …

AT-KABUL: The UN’s top envoy in Afghanistan said the possibility of a negotiated end to the conflict in Afghanistan has never been more real in the past 17 years than it is now. Tadamichi Yamamoto told the Security Council he is encouraged by several recent developments, including the appointment of …