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AT-KABUL: Defense caretaker minister Asadullah Khaled says Taliban would be under increasing pressures to abandon war and join the government’s peace talks. Khaled said Tuesday in a visit to the northern province of Faryab that military operations would continue against the insurgent group until it gives up armed opposition. Taliban …

AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan says it was optimistic to the current regional and international efforts regarding the peace process, despite calling the process as “bumpy”. Feraidoon Khwazoon, a spokesman for the chief executive emphasized Tuesday that Afghanistan was the only authorized in decision making, and no other nation could …

AT-KABUL: The electricity department (Breshna) says the armed opposition groups repeatedly target the power pylons transferring electricity from the neighboring Uzbekistan to Kabul and some other provinces, calling on the government to enhance security measures to prevent capital blackout. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Breshna said that armed opposition …

AT-KABUL: Local officials in the northeastern province of Badakhshan have said that the bad weather has challenged humanitarian relief to the families of the landslide victims in the remote district of Kohistan. Provincial Spokesman, Nick Muhammad Nazari said on Tuesday that the aids were to be provided to victims of …

AT-KABUL: Soon after report released by RAND Corporation that the US Administration, and the Afghan government pulse the Taliban group could agree for a potential and final peace agreement, the US Embassy in Kabul showed reaction, saying RAND does not represent their policy.  “Afghan media reports of RAND Corporation “peace …

AT-KABUL: Afghan military officials in eastern Nangarhar province say they detained a man who planned to smuggle timbers to Pakistan—a black, but a lucrative business that the Afghan government since long has been scrambling to put a complete halt to its practicing. 201 Selab Military Corps Forces on Tuesday arrested …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban group has once again rejected to hold talks with the US official on Afghan peace set for today (Wednesday), just after flinching to take part in anther peace talks in Jeddah of Saudi Arabia. The Afghan Taliban said they had called off peace talks with U.S. officials …

AT-KABUL: Amid a war on drugs, the country’s top counternarcotics court has sentenced 21 drug traffickers to prison in the past one week. They sent behind bars for short and long-term incarceration. Criminal Justice Takes Force (CJTF) on Tuesday said that its primary and appellate courts have convicted 21 drug …

AT-KABUL: With new defense minister at office and strategy change in fighting ground, the anti-Taliban winter operations have taken heavy toll on the Taliban insurgents as 49 of its fighters were killed Tuesday, while 97 other on Monday, a totally of (146) death casualties within a week. 97 Taliban insurgents …

 AT-KABUL: Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Idrees Zaman on Monday met with Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (UNSRSG) Ambassador Tadamichi Yammoto, where they discussed important issues, including the upcoming 3rd meeting of the Kabul Process. The two sides discussed and exchanged views on the agenda, participation and …