AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO says its military presence in Afghanistan is aimed at helping the local forces to pressurise the Taliban into coming to the negotiating table. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels the alliance had been able to hand over responsibility for security to the Afghans …
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Skepticism abounds and many commentators are in deep bewilderment to know reason behind current fatality sustained to Afghan commoners and security forces. Our security institutions have been playing a major role in formulating our security strategy, but recent losses of security forces plus civilians have heightened doubts over incompetence in …
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AT-KABUL: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has said that he has no problem with the return of the first vice president Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile. Following accusations of rape and torture by a political rival Ahmad Ischi, Dostum left Kabul for Turkey in May 2017 and has since been …
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AT-KABUL: In a second day of its summit, NATO on Thursday reiterated its call to the Taliban to accept offers to join Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace talks to steer the country out of conflict. This reiteration of the global military alliance comes as the Taliban militant group killed on Thursdaydozens …
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AT-KABUL: A military ground and aerial operation and an ensuing clash reportedly killed at least 20 civilians and 26 Taliban-affiliated militants in Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province, residents said on Friday. Ground-based troops and airborne forces carried out an offensive in Sahak area on Thursday and went on hours-long …
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AT-KABUL: Dr. Shaida Mohammad Abdali, the Ambassador of Afghanistan in New Delhi inaugurated an exhibition titled “Made in Afghanistan: Nature’s Best” which was graced by the presence of several eminent business leaders from Afghanistan and India on July 13, 2018 in New Delhi. Held in ITC Maurya Hotel, this two-day …
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Media reports on Friday were saying that the first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum is going to come back home after being away for a long time.The reports have quoted reliable sources close to President Ashraf Ghani that Dostum will return home on Monday from Turkey, where he is staying …
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BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN-President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (right) speaks with Kevin Baron of Defense One (left seated) at the NATO Engages event in Brussels on July 12 Unlike in the past, there is now a “real” and “constructive” dialogue on bringing peace to Afghanistan and this effort …
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AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned recent airstrikes by the foreign troops in the Zormat district of Paktia and Khogyani district of Nangarhar provinces, calling them irresponsible acts. “With regret, I learned that military operations and bombardments in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces, killed civilians including women and children and …
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By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Flash floods have killed 10 people in northern Panjshir province and caused serious damage to property and livestock with sweeping out 300 houses, officials said Thursday. “10 people, including two women lost their lives due to heavy floods,” provincial governor spokesman, Abdul Hodod Ali Mardan told Afghanistan …
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