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Trump wants Afghan war to be ended AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: US President Donald Trump addressed Congress on Tuesday night for his last State of the Union address before the 2020 election, claiming in an appeal to voters that, over the past three years, he had helped stage the “Great American Comeback.” …

AT News KABUL: The Afghan government must respect, protect and fulfil the right to information, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. In Afghanistan, 30 different media organizations have called on the government to effectively implement the Afghan Access to Information Law, including providing information on key human rights issues. “Afghanistan’s journalists …

AT News KABUL: A day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s remarks about the Taliban’s intent for reduction of violence, the militant group has said that they have the will and ability to solve the problem. The Taliban’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said in a statement that the peace process …

AT News KABUL: Integrity Watch Afghanistan says President Ghani’s administration has recovered a meager $30 million connected to the massive embezzlement from Kabul Bank, faulting the government of national unity for twiddling its thumbs with regard to the billion-dollar scandal. The watchdog said Tuesday that President Ghani has not held …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Pakistan’s Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has announced to launch a freight train service for the Afghan trade. “By transporting Afghan trading goods on a freight train running from Azakhel and Chaman, we will also be countering smuggling this way. Booking the train for transportation of …

AT News KABUL: As the United States of American has been trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban group to end its longest unwinnable war in Afghanistan, the Iranian envoy for Afghanistan, Mohammad Ibrahim Tahiryan has called the direct negotiations between the Afghans as the only path to …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Twenty-five Afghan abductees have been freed following a clash between two gangs in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. At least two people were killed as result of heavy gunfire traded between the groups in the Chaghai district of the province, Dawn reported. The fire exchange happened when …

AT News KABUL: Political analysts accuse Pakistan of hindering peace negotiations between the US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban negotiators. The analysts said Saturday that Khalilzad’s frequent trips to Islamabad show that his negotiations with Taliban face an impasse. Khalilzad went to Islamabad on Friday to discuss Taliban negotiations in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A senator on the US Armed Services Committee has asked the Pentagon to explain why it has proposed yet another helicopter model for the Afghan Air Force (AAF) instead of the Black Hawks it has been sending for years. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., questioned what he …

AT News KABUL: To push the Afghan peace process and to discuss the current round of talks with Taliban representative in Doha of Qatar, the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad has reached Islamabad on Friday, and hold talks with the country’s authorities. According to Pakistani media, he …