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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 …

AT News KABUL: Human Rights Watch has called on the Afghan government to free children detained for allegedly collaborating with insurgent groups in the country and to work with the United Nations and donor countries to bring them back into the community. Hundreds of Afghan children are being held on …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Russia is concerned over the latest developments in Afghanistan and the emergence of a new hotbed along the Tajik-Afghan borders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, according to TASS news agency.   “In general, of course, the development of the situation in Afghanistan as the …

Unrest has gripped Afghanistan, exacerbating civilian woes – with tens of thousands having been displaced. With armed forces ceding ground to the Taliban without demur and hostilities intensifying against backdrop of a security vacuum left by Americans, people have been mobilizing in droves against the advancing insurgents across the embattled …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations warns of more Taliban’s attacks once the US withdrawal is completed. Deborah Lyons, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said Wednesday that Taliban are expected to launch “intensive military operations” after the United States exits, adding that the militants’ next step would …