All set to criminalize the evil practice of “Bachabazi”—sexual exploitation of young boys who are forced to dress up like girls, and women, with a scenery penalties to those involved in the heinous act. The “play boy” at somehow become a subculture in the country, and the poor children have …
Read More »Engineers kidnapped in Logar
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Five engineers working for a road construction company were kidnapped by Taliban militants in eastern Logar province, local officials said on Saturday. The abduction took place late Friday in the Mohammad Agha district, said district governor Mohammad Nasir Amin. “They were travelling in the area without contacting …
Read More »Editorial: Protests against Pakistan shelling
Hundreds of people from the political activists, members of civil society and other Kabul citizens gathered Friday to protest rocket firing by Pakistani army on the eastern areas of Afghanistan. The protesters demanded immediate stop of the shelling which has been reportedly targeting villages in the provinces of Nangarhar and …
Read More »‘Islamabad keen to purge tension with Kabul’
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Islamabad has given a green signal to easy the recent ongoing tensions with Kabul in spirit of a mutual respect and cooperation, but, however the country did not decide yet to reopen Pak-Afghan crossing points, the Pakistani officials said the other day. Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman, Nafees …
Read More »Two soldiers killed in Helmand
AT-KABUL: At least two troops have been killed and three others received injures in a suicide car bombing in southern Helmand province, an official said on Friday. Confirming the bombing, the provincial governor spokesman, Omar Zwak said that incident occurred after a suicide car bomb exploded near to any army …
Read More »Afghanistan never supports any terrorist outfit: Abdullah
By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: Blaming Afghanistan for supporting terrorist outfits is not realistic, rather it is a move in order to divert minds, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah said today, while calling on regional countries for honest cooperation in war on terror. Abdullah in a gathering in Kabul to …
Read More »Pakistan should be included in UN black list for its crime of supporting terrorism: Protestors chanted
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Hundreds of Kabul residents including politicians and civil society activists on Thursday took out to the streets to give vent to their anger against Pakistan for its “continuing support to the militancy, and the recent shelling on resident areas in eastern provinces of the country. While chanting …
Read More »Editorial: TAPI an ambitious gas project
The agreement of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is now closer to a reality. Energy starving India and Pakistan have joined hands with Afghanistan and struck a deal with Turkmenistan to build a gas pipeline at a cost of $10b. The project was signed in 2016. President Ashraf Ghani in …
Read More »UAERCS grants school uniforms
AT-KABUL: The Kabul office of the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Society (UAERCS) in cooperation with the UAE embassy based in Kabul have decided to grant female students with school uniforms across the country. A press statement emailed to Afghanistan Times, the UAE embassy said that the Kabul office of …
Read More »Ghazni terror plot foiled: MoI
AT-KABUL: A terror plot has been foiled after the Afghan security forces destroyed a truck filled with explosive materials before entering to the capital of southern Ghazni province, security source said on Wednesday. In a statement issued here, the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the insurgents was planned to carry …
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