AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The recent peace offer to the Taliban has been fully backed by the NATO member countries, terming it unprecedented opportunity to end the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan—taking huge toll on civilians. President Ashraf Ghani has offered unparalleled peace offer to the Taliban in order to bring a …
Read More »US Maine Army National Guard unit to deploy to Afghanistan
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Maine Army National Guard this spring will send to Afghanistan a unit that specializes in emergency medical evacuation of injured personnel, it has been reported. Company G, 3-126th General Support Aviation Battalion, a.k.a. MEDEVAC, will be deployed in the next two months, according to Maj. …
Read More »India to provide four Mi-35 choppers to Afghanistan
NEW DELHI: India has decided to supply four Mi-35 attack helicopters to Afghanistan over the next four months to help the war-ravaged nation intensify its anti-terror operations against the Pakistan-backed Taliban, Afghan diplomatic sources said. Sources said India proposed to go in for outright purchase of the Russian-made helicopters from …
Read More »Seven-year-old Afghan girl raped, murdered in Iran
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A seven years old girl has been raped and later murdered by a 41 years-old man in Mashad city of the neighboring country, Iran, it has been reported. Neda (the raped girl) faced the attack by an old Iranian man who lured her into his house before …
Read More »Afghans are victims of terrorism resurgence: India
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Prosperity is impossible without peace in the region and the greatest contemporary threat to peace is terrorism, a top Indian diplomat said on Tuesday. Addressing the Tashkent Conference, MJ Akbar said: “Our Afghan brothers and sisters are being denied both rights and opportunity by fear and violence. …
Read More »Pakistan deploys soldiers close to Durand Line
AT-KABUL: Pakistan has deployed its military forces near the Durand border line, according to sources. The US military had established outposts along the Durand border line in 2001, and handed them over to Pakistani troops after they withdrew. The parliament accuses the government of negligence, saying that Pakistan has been …
Read More »Washington backs Afghan-owned peace talks
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With putting weight behind Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process, the Trump administration doesn’t see the Taliban insurgents to be ready for peace talks. US directly ruled out direct negotiations with the Taliban insurgents, something sought by the extremist group in an open letter to the …
Read More »Pakistan received $111m from US for anti-terror efforts: Senate told
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan during the question hour, in reply to a question by Senator Ch. Tanvir Khan said that the United States (US) also had agreed to provide Pakistan dollars 132 million for counter-terror efforts, of which dollars 111 million had been received. …
Read More »Black Water seeking Afghan mines’ security pact
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The controversial private security tycoon, Erik Prince—founder of Black Water firm, has emphasized on getting security responsibility of mineral mines in Afghanistan, it has been reported. According to sources, Erik Prince in his presentation to the foreign ministry of the United States, has stressed the security of …
Read More »Pakistan broadly agreeing its Taliban-support to undercut Karzai’s govt
Musharraf admits to ISI cultivating terrorists, insists that it is the right strategy for Pakistan to counter the then Afghanistan president, Hamid Karzai’s government In an interview with the Guardian, former Dictator of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, has admitted that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) helped cultivate the Taliban to counter …
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