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With no secured provider for chartered flights, tonnes of fruits rot at Kabul airport Weeks after the India-Afghanistan air corridor trade project was launched, the project has run into rough weather, with fruit exporters complaining that procedural delays, particularly a shortage of cargo planes, are causing them major losses. Matters …

AT Monitoring Desk-NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condemned the bomb attack in Kabul and said India stood in solidarity with the people and government of Afghanistan in their fight against terrorism. At least 30 people were killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a …

At least two Palestinians have been killed, according to local media, and hundreds more injured amid mass protests over new Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In the first incident, an Israeli settler killed an 18-year-old Palestinian man in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according …

“LeT’s chief Hafiz Saeed (a UN-designated terrorist) continued to address large rallies, although in February 2017, Pakistan proscribed him under relevant provisions of Schedule Four of the Anti-Terrorism Act, thus severely restricting his freedom of movement,” it noted. The United States on Wednesday listed Pakistan among nations that provide “safe …

WASHINGTON: A powerful US Congressional committee has said that India, which is a regional partner to Afghanistan and a major defense partner of the US, is well-suited to assist Kabul in its border security. In a report attached along with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2018, the all-powerful Senate …

By Rahmatullah Nabil and Melissa Skorka-Islamabad has shown no sign it is genuinely willing to end support for proxies like the Haqqani network. With the Trump administration considering how to break the stalemate between Taliban-allied groups and the government of Afghanistan, terrorists detonated a car bomb in Kabul on May …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A member for the US-based organization, named New America Research Center blames the United States administration for being “the biggest obstacle” against a peaceful solution in Afghanistan, according to a report published by the local Weesa newspaper. Anand Gopal claims that during the past 16 years, the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The NATO member countries have taken a formal decision, based on extension of its mission and deployment of additional troops in Afghanistan in a bid to train and assist Afghan forces beyond 2017. Following the meeting of defense ministers, NATO Secretary General Gen. Jens Stoltenberg said the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Kingdom’s Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon has announced that Britain has taken a formal decision to deploy 100 more soldiers to Afghanistan in a bid to help, and train the Afghan security forces. While talking to media on his arrival to NATO info-icon defense ministers meeting …

Treading carefully More than 16 years after the fall of their government, the Taliban say they are willing to allow girls to study, but residents on the ground say the group has done little, if anything, to re-open girls′ schools in areas under their control. Ali M. Latifi reports from …