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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In his visit to Doha, the capital city of Qatar, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan’s Reconciliation, Zalamy Khalilzad on Friday held meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in which both sides shed light over important issues …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Nearly 18,000 people in Finland signed Amnesty International Finland’s petition, which was handed over to interior minister Kai Mykkänen. The Finnish branch of human rights group Amnesty International has submitted a petition signed by nearly 18,000 people to the interior ministry, demanding that Finland stop deporting people …

PESHAWAR—A high level delegation from Afghanistan comprising former Jihadi commanders, religious figures and tribal chieftains called on leaders of two religious-politico parties of Jamaat Islami and Jamiat Ul Ulema Islam. According to credible sources, the delegates held a detailed meeting with Maulana Sami Ul Haq, chief of Jamiat Ul Ulema …

AT Monitoring Desk-The US State Department has said that the Pakistani administration has not restricted the Taliban group and Haqqani network from operating in sanctuaries inside Pakistan and threatening US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. In a report, the State Department said that Pakistan had vowed to support peace talks …

AT-KABUL: The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday contended that intra-Afghan negotiations were important in restoring peace in the war-torn country and called for a dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Guterres addressing a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York said, “We know …

The Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Thursday that a large number of ISIL terrorists had left Syria for Afghanistan this year. “Over 2,500 ISIL members redeployed to Afghan-Pakistani zone from Syria in 2018,” the AMN reported. The CSTO Joint Staff then said that most …

AT Monitoring Desk-The Manhattan Federal Court has sentenced two Afghans to 15 and 10 years in jail over conspiring to import heroin into United States, US attorney office district New York said in a statement on Tuesday. Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New …

AT Monitoring Desk-Without naming Islamabad, India has charged Pakistan with providing safe havens to the Taliban and other terror groups responsible for violence and destruction in Afghanistan. ‘’All of us know and believe that there is no military solution to the (Afghan) issue. Yet, the Taliban, aided by their supporters, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Pakistan refuted the news that it has expressed readiness to talk on restoration of Afghanistan-India trade route using Pakistani’s land. “Pakistan has not agreed to consider Afghanistan-India trade through our land,” Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. The rejection came after US said that Pakistan is …

In his book ‘Every day is extra’, Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry touts former Afghan President Hamid Karzai as a shrewd and calculating President. He says, “Karzai was shrewd and calculating. He was going to make the next Afghan government own the status of forces agreement for …