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AT News KABUL: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has condemned the attack on the Kabul University that left 22 students dead and over 20 others wounded. Khalilzad in a series of tweets called the attack “horrendous” and linked it to the IS-K or so called Daesh …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa and discussed Afghan Reconciliation Process among other matters, Pakistan media reported on Monday.  “Matters of mutual interest, regional security, the ongoing Afghan Reconciliation Process and Pak-Afghan crossing point …

AT News KABUL: Amid a stratospheric surge in people looking for Pakistani visas, Afghan government has asked Pakistani Embassy in Kabul to help manage the crowds of applicants. First vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Sunday that the foreign ministry had asked Pakistani embassy to clarify the number of visas …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan and Pakistan have signed an agreement to boost customs exchanges and cooperation in an attempt to boost bilateral trade, officials said on Sunday. The MoU was signed by head of Afghanistan’s custom office Mohammad Khalil Saleh with his Pakistani counterpart Mohammad Tariq in a visit to …

Following its second Validation, Afghanistan has made meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard. The country has improved its transparency of licenses and contracts, state-owned enterprises and quasi-fiscal expenditures. As a result, Afghanistan’s temporary suspension has been lifted. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani noted the important role the EITI plays in the country. “Every …

AT News KABUL: Pakistani officials have vowed to boost economic ties with Afghanistan and remove the obstacles facing bilateral trade between the two nations. Pakistani Premier Imran Khan and other high-ranking officials at a recent conference in Islamabad in presence of Afghanistan’s Lower House Speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani and other …

AT News KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s war have continued unabated this year despite marathon peace negotiations taking place in Qatar between the country’s warring parties, said the United Nations in a report on Tuesday. In a report, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said the number of Afghan civilians …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan would cooperate with any Afghan government that the people of Afghanistan want, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan pledged. Khan inaugurated a joint investment union on Monday along Afghan parliament speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani who is in Islamabad in an official visit. “It is the choice of …

AT News KABUL: Pakistan seems interested in the intra-Afghan peace negotiations, with foreign minister calling for a progress in the talks going between Afghanistan and Taliban since September 12 in Qatar. The talks have had no progress yet. Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a meeting with Afghan parliament …

AT News KABUL: Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar met with the Norwegian Ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Ole Andreas Lindeman. At the outset, Atmar expressed his appreciation of the Norway’s continued support and commitment to the Afghan peace process and its cooperation with Afghanistan over the past 19 years, foreign …