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Trump reiterates pledge to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan

AT News KABUL: The US Outgoing President Donald Trump urges to pull his soldiers out of Afghanistan, saying that 19-year presence was enough in the war-torn country. Trump is to hand over power to his democrat rival Joe Biden who defeated the controversial republican president in the November election. The …

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Iran’s Esfahan Steel signs agreement to export rail tracks to Afghanistan

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Iranian Steel Producers Association (ISPA) has announced that Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO) has signed a $4.332m deal to export rail tracks to Afghanistan. The new rail tracks will be utilized for various railway development projects, an Iranian news agency, IRNA reported. Afghanistan is currently working …

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Ceasefire, war victim rights must top peace talks’ agenda: AIHRC

AT News KABUL: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has called for the cease fire and the war victims’ rights to be agenda for the new round of negotiations between Afghanistan and Taliban. “The first demand is that an urgent agreement be made on the cease fire to prevent …

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Abdullah to Khalilzad; Uptick in violence, targeted killings ‘unacceptable’

AT News KABUL: Abdullah Abdullah chairman of the high council for national reconciliation met the US special representative for Afghan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday in Kabul, where he emphasized that increasing violence and targeted terrors were unacceptable for the people of Afghanistan. Abdullah also urged an urgent cease fire, …

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Afghan-Taliban peace talks resume in Doha with ceasefire on agenda

AT News KABUL: The negotiating team of the government left on Tuesday Kabul for Doha to resume the intra-Afghan negotiations, but the Taliban yet to determine the procedure of the talks  as violence has been on the rise all over the country. Head of the delegation, Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai hoped …

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UNAMA welcomes negotiators return to resume Afghan peace talks

AT News KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has welcomed the return of the Afghan negotiators to Doha and looks forward to the speedy resumption of talks between the two Afghan negotiating teams in Qatar. These negotiations are critical in helping to bring about an end to fighting and …

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Afghan-Taliban delegations planned to resume peace talks today in Qatar

AT News KABUL: The Afghan and Taliban negotiating teams are scheduled to restart talks on peace today (Tuesday) in the Persian Gulf Arab state of Qatar after a three-week long break. “The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s negotiating delegation is going to Doha after meeting the government’s leadership and reconciliation council,” …

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Top Chinese diplomat says relations with US at ‘new crossroads’

China’s relationship with the United States has reached a “new crossroads” and could get back on the right track following a period of “unprecedented difficulty”, Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi has said. Wang, China’s state councillor and foreign minister, said in a joint interview with Xinhua news agency and other …

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Taliban ramp up attacks on Afghans: Pompeo told

AT News KABUL: The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks that no U.S. service member was killed in almost one year, had faced a widespread criticism among the Afghans officials and social media users. A Spokesman for the Presidential Palace, Dawa Khan Minapal said that the reason for …

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ICESCO includes Jam Minaret in Islamic heritage list

AT News KABUL: The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) has included Afghanistan’s minaret of Jam in the list of Islamic heritage list as it is the world’s second minaret made of bricks. The Jam minaret stands on a river bank in the Shahrak district of Ghor province …

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