AT News Report-KABUL: At least 138 soldiers were killed in Friday afternoon’s attack on the Afghan National Army’s 209th Shaheen Corps Headquarters in northern Balkh province, a well-placed source within the Corps told Afghanistan Times at condition of anonymity. He added that 64 others were received deep injuries in a …

Report by Insan Magazine: Mashal Khan, a young man from Mardan, was brutally killed in Khan Abdul Wali Khan University based on allegations of blasphemy. The current realities are not in favor of enlightened intellectuals and progressive thinkers on either side of the Durand Line; non-state actors, supportive of terrorist …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 28 Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorists, were killed during an air-and-ground operation in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. Provincial governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News said that the militants were killed in Haska Mena, and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least 17 Taliban insurgents, including two notorious commanders, were killed in separate clashes with security forces in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday. Police Chief Brig. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News that a clearing operation was launched few days back in Mangur, …

Pakistan establishment is hegemony of military over civilian sections of establishment By Zulfiqar Shah-If briefed, Pakistan establishment has many layers of political and strategic decision making, governing and coordinating within and between Centre and the Provinces. For example President, Prime Minister, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Chiefs of Army, …

The 15-year long war after the Taliban were ousted from power following the US-led 2001 invasion seems to have increased in the past few years. Taliban as a major armed group has much powerful than it was 10 years ago. Different options were tested to put an end to the …

AT News Report-KABUL: The association of the Afghan youth declared support to the former president Hamid Karzai for his remarks against the US aerial attack. Karzai was the first Afghan who criticized the drop of the world’s biggest bomb by the United States military on April 13, in the Achin …

AT News Report-KABUL: A large number of elders from Uruzgan province have supported the voice of former President Hamid Karzai against the war crimes of US forces by dropping biggest bomb, and emphasized on unity for complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. The elders have been endorsed former President …

AT News Report-KABUL: The drop of the biggest non-nuclear bomb was not on the Islamic State (IS), which is also known as Daesh terrorist, but it was a test of mass destruction weapon to show the US rivals, a former high ranking governmental official said. Former National Security Advisor, Dr. …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: There was a surge in 2009, where the United States has send thousands of new troops to Afghanistan, and US officials said that this is going to be very much successfully, and finally they were pulled out in 2012, and the then Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, said …