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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: With reaching its six conservative days of talks between US officials and the Taliban Qatar-based members, source familiar with Doha talks said that they busy negotiating withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and assertion of ceasefire. It has been said that neogiation would entered its 6-day today …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Sources close to Taliban have said that the leadership council of the group has appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, as head of Taliban’s Qatar office. Baradar has also been appointed as the third deputy of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of Taliban. According …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Disclosing new figures on casualties, President Ashraf Ghani said that 45,000 Afghan security forces personnel have lost their lives since he took the office in September 2014. He said this while addressing a panel at the World Economic Forum. He put the number at more than 28,000 …

KABUL: Russia expressed optimism about resumption of peace negotiations between the US and Taliban to help in bringing the conflict to a peaceful resolution. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has said that Moscow was positive about the resumption of talks on the U.S. troop withdrawal from …

KABUL: The Taliban are consistently taking heavy losses in the battlefield and military offensives and Afghanistan’s armed forces killed at least 56 militants and injured 22 others in crackdowns over past day. The Defense Ministry said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s intelligence service – NDS – said on Wednesday that it had killed the Taliban mastermind of a deadly attack on a military base in Maidan Wardak province. The Taliban commander was killed along with seven other terrorists in an ‘air strike’ on Tuesday night. Intelligence forces found whereabouts …

KABUL: As many as 1,000 tons of fish is produced every year from the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, said officials on Wednesday. Agriculture Directorate of southern Helmand province said that 1,350 tons of fish meat is produced from the Helmand River. Agriculture Head Zalmai Alkozai said that some 260 …

KABUL: In the midst of the Afghan peace journey and US envoy’s negotiations with Taliban in Qatar, the High Peace Council says that peace process is in need of a trilateral agreement between the United States, Afghanistan and the Taliban. Peace Council member Abdul Hakim Mujahid said peace should be …

 AT-KABUL: Changes in the system of electoral commission are imminent, said head of the body, adding that no changes would be brought to its leadership. Abdul Badee Sayyad said Wednesday that bringing changes in the independent election commission would make fresh problems instead of lifting the previous ones. He offered …

An exclusive interview with Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta Afghanistan has been in a whirl of unending war and unfettered turmoil, whereas peace – or at least a state of normalcy – is a distant dream. Deadlocked reconciliation process and long-drawn-out elections are incontrovertible proofs of monolithic instability in Afghanistan, manacling …