By Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: In a bid to convince Pakistani authorities of allowing them to enter their motherland, hundreds of Afghans stranded due to sealing of Pak Afghan border at Torkham have staged a protest demonstration at Landi Kotal Khyber Agency on Sunday. The protesters along with their belongings after assembling …

There is no place in Afghanistan where the Taliban and other militant outfits did no target, and it has been for years that these groups have been engaged in devastation course. The militants have committed numerous of big crimes against the Afghan masses, and still putting no step toward backward. …

NAGPUR: India is planning to build affordable homes in Afghanistan meant for refugees in the country, as a part of its efforts to rebuild the war torn nation. There will be focus on sectors like irrigation and distribution of medicines too, said M Subbarayudu, the joint secretary for development partnership …

AT-KABUL: Ten police officers and a woman were killed after gunmen opened fire at them outside a mosque in the northern province of Jawzjan, local officials said Saturday. The incident took place late Friday in Sardar village of the Darzab district when the officers were coming out of a mosque …

AT-KABUL: The Kabul office of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent (UAERC) in collaboration with the United Arab Emirate (UAE) embassy based in Kabul has decided to build a school in southern Nimroz province.   A press statement emailed to Afghanistan Times, the UAE embassy said that the Kabul office …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Deputy Head of Iranian Railway Company, Hossein Ashouri said Iran’s and Afghanistan’s railways to connect in early 2018, Mehr, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday. “Iran has constructed a railroad till border with Afghanistan, however the remaining railroad inside Afghanistan is expected to be ready …

AT-KABUL: At least six leaders of the Islamic State (IS), aka, Daesh terrorist group were among 47 other militants killed in an air and ground operations carried by the Afghan security forces in Haska Meean and Bati Kot districts of eastern Nangarhar province,” the provincial press office said in a …

  Shamim Shahid-PESHAWAR: Reluctance on the part of rulers from both the neighbouring countries of recognizing each other’s sovereign and autonomous status is considered the main cause behind sealing of Pak Afghan border thus putting at halt all sort of trading and travelling. Not for the first time but formally, …

Even their Pakistani Identity Cards wouldn’t help them as Punjab police and Federal Investigation Agency would block these cards after their arrests. By Afrasiab Khattak-It is official now. The Punjab police has issued written instructions to its personnel to keep an eye on people with Pashtun/Afghan dresses and food habits …

Citizens Charter Program to cover the whole communities within one month By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) on Saturday said that 6,000 National Solidarity Program (NSP)’s development projects had been halted due to insecurity across the country in the past 14 years. The Ministry said …