AT-KABUL: The distribution of the electronic identity cards is awaiting President Ashraf Ghani’s order, the population registration department said, urging that the process would not kick off until the president sanctions it. The president and the first lady registered for biometric cards two weeks ago, but the ID cards are …

Inclined to reconcile with radical Taliban outfits and bring a cessation to the stretching scourge of militancy, Afghanistan has long been pursuing all the possible ways. But reconciliation appears to be a delusion in the face of the inaction of Afghanistan’s much-touted High Peace Council. The pompous council was established …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A dialogue between Afghanistan and Islamabad has been kicked in Islamabad on Monday in which a 12-member Afghan delegation has participated. The three-day dialogue between Afghanistan and Pakistan, jointly organized by the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) and the UK-based Safeworld, is an effort …

AT-KABUL: Foundation of Hamid Karzai marked 90th anniversary of late professor and academician Abdul Ahmad Jawid in Kabul on Monday, with the participation of scores of Afghan political and cultural officials, tribal elders and university lecturers. A prominent contemporary cultural author of Afghanistan, Professor Jawid was born in 1926 in …

AT-KABUL: The government of Afghanistan handed over the management of the Afghan-Turk school to the Turkish government, a move that was followed by large reaction of the students’ parents. The Afghan-Turk school that is active in Afghanistan for about two decades, has been recently problematic as Ankara has frequently asked …

AT-KABUL: Brushing away the claims of the Russian government over the empowering of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, a U.S. top military official called on Moscow and Tehran to prop up its assistance to the Afghan government instead of the Taliban insurgents. Russia has claimed the number of Daesh …

AT-KABUL: The High Peace Council has welcomed the upcoming conference on Afghan peace process in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as important for the reconciliation process. Representatives from the regional countries as well as other countries are to attend the conference, discussing solution ways for the ongoing war. “As the Central Asian countries …

AT-KABUL: A multi-city massive demonstration against the central government which had been planned by the ousted Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor has been called off. Turning national interest above all, he said the core reason behind postponed in protests is the upcoming Kabul Process conference. However, added that he and …

AT-KABUL: Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a congested road in North Kabul, killing a former senator and his driver on Sunday, said officials. An spokesperson of the Kabul police, Basir Mujahid, told Afghanistan Times that unknown armed men killed former senator Gul Afghan along with his driver, when they were …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghanistan’s interior ministry on Sunday said that most of the festive gunfire on Friday night to celebrate the winning of Afghan athletes in MMA games came from the quarters and domiciles of high-ranking officials and prominent elders. Meanwhile, spokesperson of Kabul Police Basir Mujahid said that 10 …