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Former president Hamid Karzai doesn’t hold back any punches on who is to blame for the ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan. By Alex Crawford, special correspondent, and Kevin Sheppard, cameraman, from Kabul Hamid Karzai said he felt disrespected by the US A stream of politicians, ambassadors, world leaders and business people …

AT News KABUL: Presence of Nato in Afghanistan in the past 20 years produced mixed results, a former president of Afghanistan has said. The United States and its allies helped with the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s infrastructure, helping with education and other areas was very welcome and produced immensely good results …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: New Zealand’s defense minister has said they are watching the situation in Afghanistan closely as clashes between Afghan forces and the Taliban have flared up amid the ongoing withdrawal of foreign troops. “We’ve just pulled our troops out of there and we will continue to make …

AT Monitoring Desk Kabul: A Taliban spokesman in Qatar Naeem Wardak has reject recent reports as ‘rumors’ about the group seeking to present a written peace plan to the Afghan  negotiators in Doha. This is as the group’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had earlier said that their negotiations with the Afghan …

AT News KABUL: Tajikistan has deployed 20,000 soldiers along the border with Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents have made advances in the north and northeastern areas especially in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces which are bordering the Central Asian state. Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon who is also commander-in-chief of the country’s …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said he would discuss with his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday a plan for Turkey to operate and guard Kabul’s Hamid Karzai airport after the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding there was no final decision yet, Reuters reported on Tuesday. …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations calls on the Afghan parties to begin “real peace negotiations” and give priority to the talks.  Deborah Lyons, the UN chief’s special representative in Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a visit to Qatar accelerated efforts to …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The first group of Afghans to be granted asylum for their work with the German military has arrived in Germany, according to Der Spiegel. They are fleeing the Taliban who consider them “traitors.” The first six members of Afghan personnel, who worked with the German military …

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai called on the regional powers to pay serious attention to the situation in Afghanistan, saying that the country was in a critical situation. Karzai cited the remarks in an online conference hosted by the Xinhua University of China at the World Peace Forum …

My view is that there was no terrorism in Afghanistan, and no extremism in Afghanistan, Former President Hamid Karzai told The Hindu. As the U.S. quickens the pace of its troops pull out, and talks in Doha hit an impasse, Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who is still seen as a …