By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: A foreign staffer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who was abducted on 19 December in Kunduz province, was released and is now with the ICRC team in Kunduz province, the agency said. “The released ICRC staffer, Juan Carlos is ‘safe and sound’ at …

AT-KABUL: The Spanish National, who had been abducted in December in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province, was released Sunday official sources told Afghanistan Times. The Spanish captive, Juan Carlos was released today afternoon by the Afghan security forces and was handed over to the Red Cross provincial office in Kunduz, Hijratullah …

AT-KABUL: Asian Development Bank (ADB) operations for Asia and the Pacific reached an all-time high of $31.5 billion in 2016, a 17% increase from $26.9 billion in 2015, ADB said in a preliminary figures released on Sunday. Approval of ADB loans, grants, technical assistance, and co financing have been growing …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The National Unity Government (NUG) fired a senior member of the High Peace Council (HPC), Abdul Hakim Mujahid, for showing his love and sympathy to former comrades, the Taliban. Mujahid, who served as the Taliban’s envoy to the United Nations and Pakistan, was made part of the …

Afghanistan is becoming a dangerous country for civilians with each passing day. The situation will become worse if regional countries were not prevented from forging alliances to use the country as a ground for proxy war. There are little chances of it because Kabul is standing at a very weak …

AT-KABUL: At least six people “all of them civilians” were killed and two others received injuries after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official said on Sunday. A woman and a child were also among the dead in the attack that took place in Pachiragam …

AT-KABUL: Several members of the Harakat-e-Inqelab-e-Islami (Movement of Islamic Revolution), a former jihadi party, met the former president Hamid Karzai, and commended him for his 13 years long services as the president of the country, the ex-president’s office said on Saturday. “They offered Karzai a letter of appreciation for his …

AT-KABUL: Finance Minister, Eklil Hakimi on Saturday met with Hakam Khan Habiib, governor of Khost province at his office, where the two discussed provincial development projects. “They discussed economic conditions of this province, developing and infrastructure projects, construction of industrial parks, airport and roads in this province, brining reforms and …

AT-KABUL: Militants loyal to Daesh (Islamic State) group set on fire 65 residential houses in eastern Nangarhar province. “Daesh militants have torched 65 empty residential houses in Baba Ghondi area of Kot district in Nangarhar province yesterday,” said spokesman for provincial governor Attaullah Khogiani. He said that most of the …

AT-KABUL: At least 18 armed militants were killed and 13 others wounded in different provinces in the past 24 hours, security officials said Saturday. A press statement issued here ministry of interior, said that Afghan National Defense and Security Forces launched four Counter-Terrorism joint operations to clear some of the …