National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib on Sunday accused the Taliban of not showing any commitment to peace and said the group’s negotiating team has no authority to make decisions. Speaking at a security meeting at an Air Force Corps in Kabul, Mohib said the Taliban negotiating team leaders do not have the authority to make their own decisions and are […]

A US diplomat has commended Pakistan’s contributions to efforts for conflict prevention in the region and stout support for the peace process in Afghanistan.

Nine policemen defected to the Taliban along with their weapons and seven insurgents were killed separately but near simultaneously in southern Zabul province, officials on Saturday.

Kabul welcomed the new US administration’s plan to review the February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban. Presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqi said on Saturday that the US-Taliban agreement had so far failed to controlling militant-linked violence or pavng the way for a ceasefire.

Newly-appointed police chief for southeastern Paktika on Saturday vowed to recapture fallen districts from the Taliban and turn check-posts into military bases.

Masoud Andarabi, Minister of Interior Affairs, said Saturday the Taliban is playing for time in the ongoing peace negotiations in Doha and waiting to see what the new US administration decides following the inauguration of Joe Biden last week.

Top Afghan officials on Saturday welcomed the decision of US President Joe Biden’s administration to review a landmark US deal with the Taliban and focus on whether the insurgents have reduced attacks in Afghanistan in keeping with the agreement.

Officials said there are no chances of illegal transfer of gold or money at the airport. Officials at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul rejected the claim by Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who said anonymous planes are involved in the illegal transfer of gold and money at the airport.

Ghani appointed former deputy finance minister Mohammad Khalid Payenda as acting minister of finance. President Ashraf Ghani removed Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal from his post as the minister of finance, the Administrative Office of the President said, citing at least five reasons behind the decision.

Three Taliban insurgents were killed and three security personnel were wounded during separate clashes in southwestern Nimroz province, police said on Thursday.