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AT News Report KABUL: US President Donald Trump said that the number of his troops would decrease to less than 13,000 but a notable number of intelligence operatives would remain in Afghanistan to prevent “possible threats” against West posed by other terrorist groups. “The reason of our staying in Afghanistan …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghan Embassy in Washington rejected Pakistani ambassador to the US, Assad Majeed Khan’s ‘reckless remarks’ that the ongoing tensions in Kashmir could affect the Afghan peace process. “Any such statements that link the evolving situation in Kashmir to the Afghan peace process are reckless, unwarranted and …

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said that protesters’ sustained acts of disruption are pushing “our city, the city we all love and many helped to build, to the verge of a dangerous situation”. Lam, speaking at a news conference, pledged resolute action to maintain law and order …

AT News Report KABUL: Pakistan strongly condemned “the horrific bomb attack on a passenger bus” on the Kabul-Herat highway, on Wednesday. “Our hearts go out to the innocent victims, many of them women and children,” Pakistan government said in a statement. “We pray for the maghfirah of the deceased and …

AT News Report KABUL: Pakistan Premier Imran Khan is anticipated to visit Afghanistan in an effort to push the ongoing peace process, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. Khan’s close aides told The Nation that he had promised to play a ‘more positive’ role in the Afghan peace process during …

AT News Report KABUL: US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in a phone conversation with President Ashraf Ghani, assured Afghan leader that President Donald Trump’s strategy on Afghanistan has not changed, including military withdrawal. The US Embassy to Kabul, said in a statement that the two sides also agreed on …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The top U.S. general said on Friday he was cautiously optimistic about efforts to reach a negotiated end to the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan, in remarks that followed talks in Kabul with Afghanistan’s president and the top U.S. negotiator. “We’re all cautiously optimistic, in the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios. He also said that the Taliban are not tired of war. …

KABUL- US. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will arrive today in Kabul to consult closely with Afghan leaders on the next steps in Afghan peace process, with his visit coinciding with controversial remarks of US president. “US. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will travel to Afghanistan …

The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China July 2019 Contents Preamble                                                                                                             1     I.  Xinjiang Has Long Been an Inseparable Part of Chinese Territory      3    II.  Xinjiang Has Never Been “East Turkistan”                                            8 III.  The Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang Are Part of the Chinese Nation          …