AT-KABUL: At least 14 passengers died and 26 others wounded, after a 304 Mercedes Benz bus overturned in the northern province of Baghlan. “A 304 bus overturned in Kilagai area of Doshi district in Baghlan today at around 11:20am, which as result 14 passengers died and 26 others wounded,” said …

AT-KABUL: At least 56 militants were killed and 30 others wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense, (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) personal has conducted …

Afghanistan—once abode of peace, religious harmony, and tranquility—is burning constantly. It has been more than three decades. However, there is no end in sight to the miseries of peace-loving Afghan people. Sadly, blood and fire brought by the superpowers—from Great Britain to the United States—is burning Afghan homes and claiming …

AT-KABUL: At least 24 people were “martyred” and 42 others, nearly all of them civilians, were injured Monday morning after a Taliban suicide car bomber targeted civilians in west of Kabul city, officials told Afghanistan Times. The bomber used a corolla, full of explosives, to carry out the attack in …

Khan Wali Khan Basharmal-The influence and interruption of the warlords, corrupt bureaucrats and tribal leaders in the social, economic and bureaucratic system of the government of Afghanistan, have to go; many such instances derailing the progress of Afghan society. Our weak bureaucratic structure and tribal-based non-technological system of institutional hiring …

By Ambassador Dr. Zia Nezam, Former Afghan Ambassador to Vienne, Brussels and Rome-Throughout most of its history, highly centralized regimes governed Afghanistan. Allegiance to a king, aided by a hierarchy of his chosen subordinates, sometimes provided political stability with national identity greater than ethnic affiliation, yet this partly feudal system …

There should an end to the politics of symbolism. Everything has limitations and this imagery has to be ended. By giving promises to improve the burning issue of insecurity at best level, however, a mere pledged that doesn’t see the light of the day so far. This is only in …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Afghanistan Times, leading English Newspaper in the country marked its 11th anniversary on July 22, 2017. The newspaper started publications in carnets as an eight-page newspaper in 2006, which is today in 12 pages (four in color). This paper belongs to everyone because it is a …

AT News Report-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai congratulated the achievement of the Afghan girls’ robotic team in a match held in the United States. “With great happiness, I learned that the Afghan girls’ robotic team who participated in an international robot contest in the United States of America, gained the …

AT News Report-KABUL: The Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reopened a small health clinic in the northern Kunduz province, a step to maintain activities in Afghanistan after a delay following the bloody US airstrike that targeted a hospital in the Kunduz city, the provincial capital that killed and wounded scores of …