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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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In his annual budget proposals, US President Donald Trump on Monday sought $5 billion for Afghan security forces and $630 million in civilian assistance to the war-torn country. The budget seeks to further the US goal of a stable South Asia by supporting the Afghan government and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Kingdom has announced increase in number of its elite force in Afghanistan to assist those already here under the Resolute Support Mission, a media report said on Sunday. According to reports the UK has taken a formal decision to deploy up to 50 additional commandos …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Kabir, 70, spends his days in Kabul’s finance ministry trying to access an entire year of pension payments that he is owed. The former officer at the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said, “I worked for 40 years to protect the stability and security of my country …

Former President Hamid Karzai meets the small, forgotten Afghan ‘Sheen Khalai’ community in India on whom a film is being made As they walk through the corridors of the exhibition, looking at photographs of themselves in traditional clothes, the women begin to sing first. At first, the tune is tentative. …

AT-KABUL:  The Pashtun Long March has reached Islamabad and staged a sit-in in front of press club, wanting Justice for Naqeeb Mahsood, full stop to Pashtun genocide in Pakistan, human rights violations in FATA and Pakistan imposed terrorism and militarism, but it was totally blackout by Pakistani media on the …

Asia’s leading home textile event will be held from 27 – 30 August, 2018 in Shanghai. The 2017 edition was attended by over 1,096 exhibitors from 30 countries and 38,964 trade buyers from 99 countries and regions. From the last few years, there has been a special Carpet Zone in which 2 companies from Afghanistanparticipated for the …