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Biden to announce US pullout from Afghanistan; peace remains elusive 14 April 2021 - 19:10 By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland The war began after al Qaedas 2001 attacks in which hijackers slammed airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside Washington, killing almost 3,000 people. Image: REUTERS/James Mackenzie/File photo President Joe Bidens planned announcement on Wednesday of a complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 a...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will declare on Wednesday he plans to end the longest U.S. war and that it is “time for American troops to come home” from…

BY ABC News Radio | April 14, 2021 guvendemir/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The war in Afghanistan is not ending. U.S. forces will no longer be part of it, but that will likely make the fighting worse in the months to come, according to some analysts. A senior U.S. administration official told reporters during a briefing Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s administration will put the “full wei...

Biden to share new withdrawal plan with Ghani in near future: Top Afghan official ANI | Updated: Apr 14, 2021 01:18 IST Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): US President Joe Biden is expected to talk to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the near future to officially share details of the new withdrawal plan from Afghanistan, said Waheed Omer, Director General, Office of Public and Strategic Affairs, Government of Afghanistan. "US troop withdrawal has been dis...

(Last Updated On: January 31, 2021) Local officials in Badakhshan province confirmed a 60-year-old man hanged himself in the Jurm district of Badakhshan province on Saturday evening. Confirming the incident, Badakhshan governor spokesman Nik Mohammad Nazari said a delegation has been sent to the area to investigate the incident. He said details will be shared with the media later. The man was reportedly a resident of Dashtak village. Meanwhile police spokesman Sanaullah Rouhani ap...

Afghan Govt Flexible With Peace Process: Omer President Ashraf Ghani has rejected the prospect of an interim government and has emphasized that the election is the main route to the transfer of power, while his adviser on Sunday said that the Afghan government has so far maintained a flexible stance toward peace so that the Taliban would stop “killing Afghans” and that they would share their demands at the table of negotiations.  President Ghani’s adviser on public and strategic affair...

MPs Oppose Plan to Print Ahmady’s Signature on Banknotes Some MPs said that Ajmal Ahmady, the acting governor of the Central Bank, is planning to register his signature for a contract of the bank on new banknotes that are planned to replace used ones. Lawmakers also said that Ahmady is planning to travel to Warsaw this week where he will monitor a previous contract of the bank. Ahmady said in a tweet on Saturday that he did not sign the new banknotes under their current contract “because ...

Govt Spent $64M Over Budget From Code 91: MPs The Afghan government has spent Afs5 billion ($64.8 million) more than the allocated budget for Code 91 funds in three fiscal years, according to information provided by the finance and budget committee of the parliament. Code 91 is an emergency budgetary unit, and its spending has been under scrutiny by critics.  At least Afs3 billion ($38.9 million) has been spent through Code 91 funds during former acting finance minister Mohammad Humayun Qayo...

Afghan Peace is a Fragile Process: Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday in an interview with the German press agency DPA mentioned Afghanistans "fragile peace process," and said there is no "guarantee of success.”  But the ongoing talks in Doha between the Afghan government and the Taliban are the "only path to peace," and NATO strongly supports those efforts, Stoltenberg said.  On the foreign troops withdrawal from Afghanistan and the NATO mission in the country...

KABUL: A team of government-appointed negotiators were expected to return from Doha, Qatar on Monday to “consult with authorities” on the next step for the intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban, after agreeing to ground rules with the insurgent group for the US-sponsored process. “The delegation will return later (today) to Kabul for consultation with authorities and government leadership, not for rest,” Habiba Sarabi, a member of the Afghan government-appointed team, told Arab News...