Afghanistan Times
According to the international organizations, around 2.5 million Afghans live below the poverty line. Nearly 1.53 million people face food insecurity and 7.53 million others are threatened by food insecurity. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans suffer from malnutrition and hunger. Skyrocketing price hike and inflation are adding to the injury. …
Read More »Food security: MAIL to bring dry lands into cultivation
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) on Tuesday said that it has drafted a strategy to irrigate dry lands in order to increase wheat production. The strategy would lead the country toward self-sufficiency in wheat production within next four years, the ministry said. To finically support …
Read More »Airstrike silence Dash radio station in Nangarhar
AT-KABUL: The “Voice of Caliphate” radio station of the Islamic State (IS) which is also known as Daesh, was destroyed in a US airstrike last night in eastern Nangarhar province. “Daesh radio station was operating since December last year. The radio station was destroyed and its five staffers were killed …
Read More »Political, social organs failed to fulfill commitments on women’s rights: Official
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Women’s Affairs Minister on Monday criticized the political parties and social organs for their “symbolic existence”, asking them to take real steps for empowering women in the country. “Despite the existence of dozens of political parties and social societies, there has been no significant changes in the …
Read More »Paktika to get 300 social projects
AT-KABUL: As many as 300 different projects will be carried out at a cost of five million dollars in southeastern Paktika province in the next solar year which will begin on March 21 this year, a local official said Monday. The rural rehabilitation and development director in the province Najibullah …
Read More »KM inaugurates Pul-e-Sorkh Road
By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The Kabul Municipality (KM) on Monday inaugurated a road after reconstruction in the west part of the city. The road has been reconstructed with the 3.35km length and 15.5 meters width with concreted pavement and electricity service in the Pul-e-Sorkh neighborhood at the third police jurisdiction …
Read More »Afghan refugees forced to return to a country with no hope
Pakistan’s intensifying crackdown on terrorists is likely to victimize Afghans living there, many of whom could be forced to return to Afghanistan. Pakistan hosts about 1.5 million registered and about one million undocumented Afghans. After the 2014 terrorist attack on the army-run school in Peshawar in which more than 150 people …
Read More »India stands committed for building a peaceful Afghanistan: Modi promises Abdullah
India also nods for the third phase of 92 small development projects in Afghanistan AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Sawaraj on Monday in New Delhi. Indian primer reiterated New Delhi’s commitments to help Afghans in building …
Read More »10,000 refugee children disappear in Europe
AT-KABUL: More than 10,000 refugee children have disappeared after arriving in Europe, the European Union Police Intelligence Unit (Europol) said Monday. The Europol have warned the criminal gangs’ sexual exploitation of these children. The statistics released by the British newspapers said that the children had been missing for 18 to …
Read More »Who’s to blame?
The violence unleashed by the Taliban militants and their facilitators is claiming lives of innocent people every day. They are defaming the religion of peace and had broken the centuries old code of respect, hospitality and protection. They feel proud after killing unarmed civilians. Location does not matter. For them …
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