KABUL: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the suicide attack against media workers in Kabul yesterday that killed eight and injured 24 civilians, many of them from the media sector. The casualties included women and children. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast that deliberately targeted a minibus transporting …

Journalists Face Escalating Intimidation and Violence (New York) ­– Anti-government insurgency groups should immediately stop intentionally targeting civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The January 20 suicide attack on a minibus in Kabul transporting journalists affiliated with Tolo TV, Afghanistan’s 24-hour news channel, was an atrocity designed to undermine Afghanistan’s …

Ghani, Karzai, Abdullah condemn attack By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: A suicide bomber, riding an explosive-filled car, targeted a mini-bus of a private TV channel on Wednesday evening in the capital city, Kabul. At least eight people were killed and 28 others injured, sources told Afghanistan Times. The mini-bus was carrying broadcaster …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The university lecturers Wednesday went to the street and staged protest against presidential decree over higher education law. They asked for the cancellation of the decree. The professors called the decree against civil services and higher education law and contrary to constitution. The protestors marched from Kabul …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Interior Minister Noorulhaq Ulumi has sacked some police officers over the two security incidents took place in Kabul, the ministry said in a statement. “The officials were dismissed over a rocket attack near Italian embassy and torching a girls’ school in Kabul city earlier this week,” it …

AT-KABUL: A large number of Taliban militants were killed and injured during an operation launched by the security forces Tuesday night in southern Helmand province, an official said Wednesday. “The operation was launched with cooperation of NATO air force in Gereshk, Marjah, Sangin and Khanshin districts in which different types …

AT-KABUL: Scores of people staged demonstration Wednesday in Kabul to protest government over the growing insecurity in the eastern Nangarhar province. Protesters said insecurity had a significant increase in Nangarhar, threatening people’s lives. Mirwais Amarkhel, a protester said that people were cruelly killed by armed insurgents while the government officials …

AT-KABUL: President of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan claimed Wednesday that foreign intervention was the main reason of terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that the exploitation of the establishments of the two countries were part of foreign agenda. In a statement,Khan said that the …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: During a media interaction at the Pentagon, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Brigadier General Wilson Shoffner, had praised the capability of Afghan security forces. Taliban were unable to hold ground in Afghanistan as Afghan security forces got better in their performances …

AT-KABUL: Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has strongly condemned the terror attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. Denouncing the attack in strongest possible terms, Hamid Karzai said that such attacks are against Islamic teachings and human values, adding that attacks on people living on both sides of the …