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Dostum to Ghani: Don’t repeat history, stop suppressing citizens

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of ongoing election tensions, a prominent elite and leader of “Hezb-e-Junbish” political party, Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on President Ashraf Ghani not to repeat “past history” and not to be in dreams of “suppressing” the citizens. “I am very concerned about security …

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Political leaders criticize monopoly in Beijing talks

AT News Report KABUL: Some political leaders criticize President Ghani for what they allege “monopoly” of the upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations in the Chinese capital, saying that the talks should not be controlled by the government. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami party, who is competing in the presidential contests, said Tuesday …

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Analysts accuse foreigners for election tensions

AT News Report KABUL: Some analysts have called the foreigners interference in presidential polls a reason behind the election crisis in the country. The analysts protested that Sri Lanka’s presidential polls results were announced in only one day but Afghanistan’s election results have been gone for months. A member of …

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Karzai meets foreign ambassadors, discusses peace process

AT News Report KABUL: The role of women throughout the Afghan peace process with the Taliban has been so far significant. There have been three rounds of intra-Afghan talks conducted between the Afghan political elites and the Taliban delegation. Two of them were in Moscow and the third one in …

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Preparations on card for intra-Afghan dialogue in China

AT News Report KABUL: The state minister in peace affairs, Abdul Salam Rahimi has held a meeting in Beijing with the newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Kabul, where both sides exchanged views over preparation of intra-Afghan talks, which is likely to be held in China. The state ministry for peace …

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Karzai concerned over ‘foreign meddling’ in Afghan elections

AT News Report KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai on Monday met with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) head, Tadamichi Yamamoto and expressed concerns over the foreign interferences in the Afghanistan’s presidential elections. Karzai said that the UN office in Afghanistan should remain as an impartial international body …

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Embroiling Afghan forces in dirty political battles against national interest

AT News Report KABUL: Members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are true son of this soil who all the time echoed strong resolve to defend the country, a young politician said, while expressing his grave concerns over embroiling them into dirty political battles. ANDSF is the …

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‘Will not allow IEC to count fake votes’

AT News Report KABUL: A number of tribal elders and supporters of presidential hopeful, Abdullah Abdullah have warned that they would stand against the Independent Election Commission (IEC) if the corrupted votes were not separated from cleaned. In a gathering has been held by the “Stability and Convergence”, electoral team …

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Protests to vote recount continuing in provinces

AT News Report KABUL: The independent election commission says that the vote recount process is normally going ahead, while reports say of vast protests to the process in different provinces. The commission said Monday that they had already wrapped up the vote recount in 12 provinces, while work in another …

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31 militants killed in fresh military ops

AT News Report KABUL: At least 31 militants were killed and two others wounded in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Monday. Ministry of Defense in a statement said the Afghan National Army …

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