India looks forward to working towards a peaceful, prosperous, sovereign, democratic and united Afghanistan, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) as New Delhi is all set to chair crucial Taliban sanctions committee and the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council during its tenure as a non-permanent member of the UN body. As per Ani report, Indian MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava during a

Mette Knudsen has been appointed today by the UN Secretary-General as his new Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). UNAMA in a press release on Friday said that Ms. Knudsen succeeds Ingrid Hayden of Australia, to whom the Secretary-General expresses his gratitude for her dedicated service. "Ms. Knudsen, of

The chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) Abdullah Abdullah has met and held talks with Iranian Ambassador to Kabul Bahador Aminian. In this bilateral meeting, the two sides exchanged their views on the second round of peace talks in the Qatari capital Doha. The Press Office of HCNR in a statement said that Abdullah Abdullah met and held talks with Ambassador Aminian