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AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai congratulated the New Year to the people of Afghanistan and expressed hope that it be a year of lasting peace and end of war. “I would like to congratulate the new year to all my brothers and sisters and I hope this …

AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned Thursday’s “terrorist attack” in Kabul that targeted civilians celebrating the New Year. “The attack in Kabul was aimed to prevent people from celebrating our traditions and customs, and to disrupt our peace,” Karzai said on Twitter. “I call this attack …

AT News Report KABUL: The domestic agricultural products would increase in the new year, government officials are optimistic. Minister of Agriculture said on Friday in a gathering to celebrate March 22 called Farmer’s Day in Kabul that “Afghanistan will reach self-sufficiency on the agricultural products” this year. He said that …

AT News Report KABUL: Another round of the intra-Afghans negotiations is scheduled for April 14 in the city of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a source said Friday, after the first meeting held in Russia’s capital Moscow. Omar Zakhilwal, former ambassador to Islamabad said that works going on for an …

AT News Report KABUL: Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jinsong held talks with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a senior political figure and have discussed Afghanistan-China relations and the Afghan peace process in a cordial setting. The two exchanged greetings for the upcoming Nowruz (Afghanistan’s New Year’s Day). Liu wished Afghanistan’s senior …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: A report to the U.N. Human Rights Council says nascent peace talks in Afghanistan offer a glimmer of hope to a country that has been at war for decades. The United Nations said 2018 was a particularly deadly year in the war between the government of …

AT News Report KABUL: A landslide in eastern Kunar province has killed three children and five other people received injures, an official said Friday. Provincial Governor Spokesman Abdul Ghani Musamim said the incident occurred when the landslide swept a house in Asadabad, the provincial capital on Thursday night as result …

AT News Report KABUL: A blast as a result of landmine occurred in Shawalikot district of southern Kandahar province, in which a civilian was killed and four other, from a single family were received injures, security officials said Friday. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Tadin Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News a …

AT News Report KABUL: Russia has asked the warring parties in Afghanistan to cease hostilities rather strive for a genuine peace to be prevailed in the country. Russia’s Foreign Minister Spokesman, Maria Zakharova in a briefing on recent development in Afghanistan on Tuesday said that they have noted a considerable …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: In fallout from a feud over U.S.-Taliban peace talks, a senior U.S. diplomat has told Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that U.S. officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser, four knowledgable sources told Reuters on Monday. The decision to end U.S. contacts with Hamdullah …