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AT News Report KABUL: NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg has underlined the need for firm and credible guarantees for any future peace deal in Afghanistan after escalation of violence by Taliban group.   He said this while delivering speech at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Plenary Session in London, where assured …

AT News Report KABUL: The U.S. State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Alice Wells on Tuesday held a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani, where they discussed election, peace and regional issues. The presidential palace in a statement said that US diplomat has praised the successful conduct …

AT News Report KABUL: The United States supports a decision made by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to validate and count only the biometric votes. John Bass, the United States Ambassador to Kabul, said Monday that his country considers transparency important in the announcing of election results, emphasizing that it …

AT News Report KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday has called on the Taliban to show willingness to make a real compromise at the negotiating table, and expect resumption of peace talks between US and Taliban. “We would welcome the resumption of the talks, but then Taliban must …

By Robert Ovadia I have never seen disinformation weaponised with such venom as my time in Hong Kong. We see in social media, right around the world, people’s refusal to acknowledge basic fact if it doesn’t confirm their entrenched political bias. In Hong Kong right now, this is toxic and …

AT News Report KABUL: Electoral crisis in Afghanistan is displaying the death of democracy, the Diplomat Magazine writes in an article. The magazine said on Sunday that the September 28th presidential election and people’s participation, shows this bitter fact that democracy in this country needs an urgent reinterpretation. Diplomat said …

AT News Report KABUL: The US Embassy in Kabul in a tweet on Wednesday called on “everyone to respect the time required” for the Afghan election organizations to finish processing the votes, saying it is “better to be right than fast.” This comes US deputy ambassador, Karen Decker after visiting …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Germany has deported another group of failed Afghan asylum seekers to their country, according to the dpa news agency. Forty-four Afghans arrived in Kabul on October 9 — the 28th such group that has been deported in less than three years. Since December 2016, 720 Afghans …

AT News Report KABUL: The Government of Russia has welcomed the conduct of the presidential election in Afghanistan on September 28 despite the tense military and political situation and the existence of terrorist threats. Fortunately, this election was accompanied by fewer casualties than the parliamentary elections of 2018, Russian Foreign …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined the need for all Afghan groups to participate in peace talks, calling on foreign sides to allow Afghanistan to decide for itself. “We pursue peace talks in Afghanistan with all sides, but we do not accept a peace that …