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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 affairs, Waheed Omer, said that the government is ready to talk about any demand by the Taliban at the t...

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 they were signed by the former governor of the bank.” TOLOnews attempted could not get the comment...

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 Qayoumi’s leadership, something that has raised questions.   According to the details provided by the...

Afghan Peace is a 'Fragile' Process: Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday in an interview with the German press agency DPA mentioned Afghanistan's "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, he said: “We will have another meeting in February with the new Biden administration and the...

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. “The Taliban have also gone for consultations. Both sides have agreed on this.” The Qatar talk...