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Taliban seeks release of their reaming prisoners, removal of names of their colleagues from the UN Blacklist AT News KABUL: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation met with Taliban’s deputy leader Mullah Baradar and chief negotiator Abdula Hakeem in Doha of Qatar, where they discussed issues related to recent …

AT News KABUL: The first agreement Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams reached on the procedure of the intra-Afghan talks, has sparked optimism among the government delegation who hope this could be the first step to take Afghanistan to lasting peace. A member of the government peace negotiation team, Fawzia Koofi …

AT News KABUL: The Pakistani army says the fencing along Durand Line it had earlier started would be completed “in next two months”. The fencing project which faced strong reaction by Afghanistan takes 2,600 kilometer. Kabul does not recognize the line as official border between Kabul and Islamabad, calling it …

AT News KABUL:  The government of Pakistan welcomed announcement of agreement between the Afghan peace team and Taliban negotiating members on the rules and procedures. “Pakistan welcomes the announcement regarding the agreement reached on rules and procedures by the Afghan parties in Doha. This is another significant step forward,” the …

AT News KABUL: The NATO calls on the Taliban to reduce violence as the first step to show they are committed to peace in Afghanistan. “We want the Taliban to first reduce the violence, then we want a peace agreement which includes the cease fire. The aim is a peaceful …

AT News KABUL: Assad Dorrani, an ex-chief of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), says that Islamabad could just persuade Taliban militants to sit with Afghan representatives for the peace talks. He says that Pakistan could not do anything more. Dorrani’s statement is an effort to deny his country’s influence …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: China’s embassy in Australia said politicians there had “misread” a tweet showing a digitally-altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and were trying to stoke nationalism. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called the tweet …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and Pakistan, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park. A source briefed on the matter told Reuters the visas had temporarily stopped being …

AT News KABUL: The international community pledged in the Geneva conference to donate 12 billion dollars to Afghanistan in the next four years. Ville Skinnari, minister of foreign trade and development of Finland, said: “Today, we committed to Afghanistan until 2024. The donors pledged to finance three billion dollars in …

Afghanistan and international partners commit to shared development objectives for 2021 – 2024, and adopt a communique calling for an end to the war and a durable peace, stability and prosperity AT News  KABUL: The 2020 Afghanistan Conference provided a strong expression of the international community’s enduring commitment to Afghanistan …