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Door open to repairing US-Pak relations, if latter changes policy on terro
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 20 (ANI): After years of discord over Afghanistan, United States President Donald Trump will push Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan to pressure the Taliban to strike a peace deal, with the aim of extricating from US' longest war, a Trump administration officia
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Khalilzad meets India envoy to US Shringla ahead of another Afghan peace m
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 20 (ANI): US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday held talks with India Ambassador to US Harsh Vardhan Shringla on the Afghan peace process to end two decades of insurgency in the war-torn country.
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Taliban attack on Kandahar police HQ plotted in Pak, says Afghan intel age
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghanistan], July 19 (ANI): The Taliban attack on the Kandahar police headquarters, which claimed the lives of 12 people, was plotted in Pakistan, according to the Afghan intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS).
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Afghanistan: 12 killed, 40 wounded in Taliban attack
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghanistan], July 19 (ANI): Atleast 12 people, including seven civilians, were killed in a Taliban attack on Kandahar police headquarters on Thursday.
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Afghanistan: 22 Taliban terrorists, 1 civilian killed in counter terrorism
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 16 (ANI): Twenty-two Taliban terrorists and one civilian were killed in a counter-terrorism operation launched by the Special Operation Forces of Afghan National Police in country's eastern province of Logar, country's Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Tuesday.
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11 killed in Afghanistan hotel attack, Taliban claims responsibility
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Jul 13 (ANI): At least 11 people, including eight security forces, were killed after terrorists stormed into a hotel in north-western Afghanistan on Saturday with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the attack.
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Abdullah hopes Doha peace talks will lead to direct negotiations between g
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Jul 9 (ANI): Afghanistan's Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah on Monday welcomed the intra-Afghan summit in Doha and hoped that it would result in direct talks between the government and Taliban in an effort to end the nearly two-decades-long civil war and establi
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Taliban representatives, Afghan leaders resume peace talks in Doha
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], July 8 (ANI): Afghan government officials and representatives of Taliban on Monday resumed dialogues on the second day of the Inter Afghan summit being held in Qatar's capital city of Doha.
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Pak-based terrorists joining hands with Afghan outfits after Balakot strik
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 8 (ANI): Intelligence inputs have revealed that Pakistan-based terror outfits Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have joined hands with Afghan insurgent groups like Haqqani Network and Afghan Taliban after the launch of Balakot air strike by the Indian
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'Attacking civilians won't get you more privileges in peace talks', Ghani
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 7 (ANI): Strongly attacking the Taliban for the car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni province earlier on Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani said that the group cannot benefit in the intra-Afghan summit underway in the Qatari capital of Doha that seeks to find lasting
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Afghanistan: 8 killed in car bomb blast in Ghazni; Taliban claims responsi
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 7 (ANI): At least eight people were killed and 50 others sustained injuries after a car laden with explosives detonated in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Sunday, government officials said.
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US hails Doha peace talks with Taliban, says 'last 6 days were most produc
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 6 (ANI): The US Special Representative for Afghan peace reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Saturday said that the latest efforts to negotiate peace in war-ravaged country were the "most productive session" to date.
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