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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 …

AT News KABUL: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation called on the Afghan war parties to “seize the historic opportunity” to pursue dialogues for reconciliation and lay out a durable peace in Afghanistan. The OIC in a statement on Tuesday said that Secretary General of the Organization, Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen …

AT News KABUL: Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that Iran has always supported intra-Afghan dialogue, owned and led by Afghans themselves. He made the remarks in an address to the virtual 2020 Afghanistan Conference in Geneva on Tuesday. It is a tragedy of epic proportions that twenty years …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Germany expects to learn more details on a planned U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in the coming days, German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said. “When the Americans specify over the coming days what troops they intend to pull out and which locations (in Afghanistan) will be …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The European Union’s foreign policy chief called for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan on Tuesday, warning that the country may lose political and financial support from Brussels. Josep Borrell, EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, said Tuesday at an Afghanistan fundraising conference in …

US point-man for peace Zalmay Khalilzad urges Afghanistan and Pakistan to prevent their territories to be used against each other AT News KABUL: The US welcomed “positive development” between Afghanistan and Pakistan relations, saying that if the development comes into effect, it would be an opportunity to move forward the …

AT News KABUL: The two-day international conference began Monday on Afghanistan issues in the Swiss city of Geneva will continue today with the participation of representatives from 70 countries and 30 organizations. Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar who heads the conference, started it with his opening speech. The first day …