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AT News KABUL: De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, a government company providing electricity for the country, said that it would soon transfer 200 megawatt power from the neighboring country, Uzbekistan. The decision made after Tajikistan cut 350 megawatt power agreed officially in a contract between Kabul and Dushanbe. A spokesman for …

AT News KABUL: The United States is not going to totally pull back its soldiers from Afghanistan, says Karim Khorram, a former government official. Khorram said on Monday that if the US wraps up military presence in the country, it would rely very much to the local militia men. He …

AT News KABUL: De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, a government power producing company, has said that Tajikistan reduced electricity supply to Afghanistan. Breshna said in a statement that Dushanbe reduced the 350 megawatt power to 40 due to the lower surface of water.  To meet the needs of the Afghan citizens, …

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan embassy in Riyadh in a statement said that Saudi would build 600 schools in Afghanistan. Based on Afghan government’s offer, the compound of the schools would be constructed by the rural development communities instead of private sectors and that it would be monitored by an …

Khalilzad embarks on five-nation tour on Afghan peace AT News KABUL: The United States has dispatched a Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad to press for peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban—a deadlock in reconciliation due to controversies in prisoner swaps process. Top US negotiator, Khalilzad …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Adela Raz wrote to the President of the Security Council, Germany, to report on the most recent violations of the Afghan territory by Pakistan’s military forces and said the incursion represents a reiteration of violations as Kabul had previously expressed …

AT News KABUL: The US Envoy for Afghanistan Peace, Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran had not done as it was expected to help the peace process of Afghanistan. “Iran was expected to cooperate more with the Afghan peace process and the intra-Afghan talks, but it …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: In a meeting between the special envoy of the Russian President for Afghanistan affairs Zamir Kabulov and Iran’s ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali the two sides discussed regional and Afghanistan affairs. The two officials hold talks on the ongoing issues in Afghanistan and the vitality of …

‘Up to 6,000-6,500 Pakistani terrorists present in Afghanistan’ AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council indicates that the total number of “Pakistani foreign terrorist fighters” in Afghanistan is estimated at “between 6,000 and 6,500, most of them with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).’  The report says …

KABUL: The REAL TV Analytic Information Center said that its reporter was stoned on head during protests by the Armenian group of protestors in Brussels. The TV channel in a statement condemned the acts and called on the Belgium government to hold the perpetrators accountable. ‘Khatira Sardargiz, who is a …