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BRICS Ministers reiterate support to Afghan-owned peace process

AT News Report KABUL: Representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have reiterated support to the Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process—an effort which is underway for a political settlement to Afghan conflict through negotiations with Taliban members.   Ministers of the BRICS countries gathered in Rio …

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Scores of police killed, injured in Taliban attacks in Takhar

AT News Report KABUL: Officials in the northeastern province of Takhar say that Taliban fighters attacked to police checkpoints, killing 16 officers and wounding four others. But the provincial council rejects the information, saying 32 officers were killed and seven injured in the attacks carried out in the Eshkamesh district. …

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Extremist groups use universities as recruitment centers

AT News Report KABUL: The extremist groups have recently focused on the universities across the country as good places for propaganda and recruitment the youth, university students say. The faculties of law and theologies are considered as main brainwashing centers for the extremist groups. Basira Akhtar, a student at the …

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Work on Aqina-Andkhoi railway kicks off in Faryab

AT News Report KABUL: The Acting Minister of Transportation on Friday launched work on the construction of Aqina-Andkhoi railway during a ceremony in the northern Faryab province.  Minister Yama Yari said the 30-kilometer railway would connect Afghan Aqina port with Andkhoi of Turkmenistan, adding the project would cost a total …

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President Trump, we are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World”

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai in reaction to the US President Donald Trump’s nasty statements on wiping Afghanistan off the face of the earth, said, “President Trump, We are the Pamirs! You can’t wipe out “The Roof of the World.” Moreover, he called on the Afghan to …

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Trump’s wiping out Afghanistan remarks a ‘propagandist rhetoric’: Moscow

AT News Report KABUL: Reacting to the recent remarks made by US President Trump to wipe out Afghanistan, the Russian Embassy in Kabul in a statement on Friday slammed them as ‘propagandist rhetoric’. It also blasted some Afghan political pundits who believe the current misery has been an unending cycle …

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Trump’s Afghanistan comments continue to draw flak

The US President Mr. Donald Trump on the eve of his historical meeting and talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has not only made unhappy the Afghans but had also made at irony the Pakhtoons by using words, “wiping Afghanistan of world face.” Now these worlds are considered heated …

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Baradar-led Taliban delegation leaves for Indonesia

AT News Report Kabul: A Taliban delegation, led by Abdul Ghani Baradar, have left Qatar for Indonesia on Friday morning, the militant movement’s mouthpiece said. A Taliban Spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a brief statement said that at the head of an eight-member team, Mullah Baradar would hold talks with Indonesian …

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Police chief for Khogyani district killed in Taliban assault

AT News Report KABUL: District Police Chief for Khogyani district and two security personnel were killed when the Taliban stormed the police headquarters on Thursday night in the southern province of Ghazni, the provincial police said in a statement on Friday.  Samiullah Popal, the acting police head for Khogyani district, was among two other security …

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Nine wedding guests killed in Nangarhar roadside bomb blast

AT News Report KABUL: At least nine wedding guests were killed and another four were injured on Thursday morning after their mini-truck, they were traveling in, struck by a militant placed roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, officials told Afghanistan Times. The blast took place against the mini-truck today morning …

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