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AT News KABUL: The government of Afghanistan has praised Pakistani interior minister for what Kabul calls “revelation” on Islamabad’s relation with the Taliban and supporting the group’s fighters. Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Pakistan interior minister, in a recent interview with Pakistan’s Geo News broadcaster, admitted that the families of most of …

AT News KABUL: In a litany of financial and military aid to Afghanistan, the U.S. plans to provide up to 37 military helicopters and two attack aircrafts to bolster Afghan Air Force and its aging fleet, according to Afghan officials. Afghanistan has more than 160 helicopters and aircraft currently. The …

AT News KABUL: Around 600 American soldiers are planned to stay in Afghanistan after the US pulls troops in the near future, a US diplomat said, adding that the remainder troops would provide security for American diplomats and for Kabul airport. Speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday that everyone …

AT News KABUL: With the U.S.-led forces withdrawing and the Taliban expanding foothold, fears are mounting that the militants are shipping out what they steal from Afghan security forces to Pakistan including armored tanks and huge caches of arsenal. A senior Afghan security official has claimed that the country’s military …

Pro-Taliban and anti-Afghanistan fervor is deeply ingrained in Pakistan and many call the hardliner Taliban their ‘guardians’. This bunker mentality and chauvinism comes as little surprise, because thousands of Pakistanis fought in Afghanistan on the Taliban side – after I.S.I founded the group in 1990s in pursuit of strategic depth …

AT News KABUL: Sources in Afghanistan and the United States say that Washington is to hand over the ongoing so-called ‘war on terror’ to Afghan forces to more facilitate troop withdrawal. The US was involved in the Afghan war since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan in an attempt to uproot …

AT News KABUL: Secret British military documents about Afghanistan have been founded at a bus stop in England, with one suggesting recommendations for a possible UK military presence in the war-torn country, reports said on Sunday. The UK’s Ministry of Defence documents containing details about the British military were found …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan would close borders if the Taliban forcibly seized power in Afghanistan, the country’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan said. A Pakistani Newspaper Dawn quoted Khan as saying that Afghanistan could connect Pakistan’s trade ties with the central Asian countries. He said that Pakistan would pay all-out efforts …

AT News KABUL: Some Western media outlets report that the United States military had pounded by drone attacks Friday just hours before President Ghani’s meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in the White House. The Fox News has cited officials in the Pentagon, saying that the US army had …

AT News KABUL: As Afghan hospitals are overwhelmed with an increasing number of coronavirus patients, health officials are warning about a rapid spread of the highly contagious Indian-origin Delta variant across the nation. Addressing a conference on Saturday, Minister of Public Health Wahid Majrooh said test results in laboratories suggest …