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KABUL: The Taliban’s top negotiator says the Americans are serious about withdrawing from Afghanistan, thereby caving to a longstanding demand of the militant group. “I think the US is very serious about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan,” said Sher Abbas Stanikzai, who led the Taliban at peace negotiations with the United …

KABUL: Tribal elders and influential figures in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday voiced their support of the ongoing peace efforts. They said the war had been imposed on Afghans, calling on the government to put an end to the current war. The tribal elders also said the peace …

KABUL: The Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA), a non-government electoral monitoring says that some evil demands from women during the elections caused them refrain from contesting in the votes. The body also expressed concerns of what it called “restricted freedoms and dual behaviors” against women in the …

KABUL: Political analysts believe that only an interim administration could help the ongoing peace process succeed. Although the United States and some regional countries are making efforts to find a way to put an end to the Afghan war, Taliban militants have not yet said ‘YES’ to requests over sitting …

By Mansoor Faizy and Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: There is an immediate need to chalk out a comprehensive plan to grab the unprecedented peace opportunity as scaremongers and conspiracy theorists don’t help rather make things more complicated. In the wake of progress in Doha talks, US and Taliban members presented the …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s drug courts have sentenced seventeen people to prison for conspiracies to smuggle or sell drugs, said officials on Tuesday. Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) said that 17 drug traffickers have been given short and long term prison sentences over the past week. CJTF in a press statement said …

Kabul: Afghanistan’s first polio case in 2019 was reported in Kandahar province, where a 22-month-old girl from Spin Boldak district was infected by the poliovirus. According to a statement the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz said, “this case indicates that the poliovirus is still transmitting in Kandahar and the …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Human Rights Commission office in the southeastern zone says that some 50 per cent people being held in the prisons of Paktia province were deprived of having access to defending attorneys. The commission has said lack of advocates in Paktia prisons has caused the delay of inmates’ …

AT-KABUL: US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday held separate meetings with Afghan and UN officials, where he discussed fresh development made during talks with the Taliban group in Qatar. During meetings he said that no one had a monopoly on the diplomacy of peace and …

KABUL: Police in Kabul said Tuesday that it has arrested nine drug peddlers in an anti-narcotics raid in Kabul city, a clampdown that began almost a month ago against drug kingpins and peddlers in the capital. Kabul Police said in a statement that Counter Narcotics Police launched raids in 1st, …