AT News KABUL: The US Chargé d’ Affairs Ross Wilson said that the US supported a democratic, sovereign and united Afghanistan in peace with “itself and its neighbors”. “The intra-Afghan negotiations should and will be Afghan owned and Afghan led,” Wilson said, following the three days consultative Loya Jirga’s decision …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said that he has written a letter to the US President Donald Trump that an ex-Afghan soldier who killed three Australians in 2012 should not be released. The man, Hekmatullah, has spent seven years in jail after killing three …
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AT News KABUL: The life story of Rohullah Nikpa, the first and only winner of Olympic medal for Afghanistan, would be featured in the Hollywood film industry—a first such big podium for an Afghan athlete. Eddie Arya, a Sydney-based renowned filmmaker told Afghanistan Times that this is his desire to …
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AT News KABUL: The Pakistani military and intelligence have not abandoned the policy of training terrorist groups on their soil and have recently created a new terror group under the name of ‘Khattak Taliban’. The ISI, Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan has recently formed a new militant group, called the “Khattak …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed over the phone with his Pakistani counterpart the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan to end the conflict as the country enters a critical phase in peace talks. In reading out Pompeo’s call with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, State …
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AT Monitoring Desk At least 18 people were killed and more than 100 others injured when a passenger jet skidded off a hilltop runway after landing in heavy rain in the southern city of Kozhikode in Kerala. Several Afghan officials expressed their condolences and sadness to the victim of the …
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By: ADITYA RAJ KAUL Top sources within Afghan intelligence have revealed, that the Pakistan ISI wants another armed group ready – to replace the Taliban – in case the intra-Afghan talks succeed under US pressure. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also raised the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi two …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Managing Director of Sistan and Balouchestan Ports and Maritime Department General Behrouz Aqayee said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been inked with Afghanistan’s private sector on transit via Chabahar port, FNA has reported. Aqayee made the remarks on Wednesday and noted, “An MoU …
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AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United States is looking to leave roughly 4,000 to 5,000 troops in Afghanistan by November. The US President Donald Trump in an interview broadcast on Monday night said that by November Election Day troop levels in Afghanistan will be down to between 4,000 and 5,000. …
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AT News KABUL: The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had held a video meeting with Taliban negotiators lead by Mullah Baradar the group’s deputy leader and head of Qatar Political Office, in which they discussed the start of the Intra-Afghan negotiations. Taliban Qatar Office Spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said the …
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