Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Sunday issued arrest warrant for ex-football chief Keramuddin Karim a day after he was banned life from all soccer-related activities for abusing his position and sexually abusing female players. Spokesman for the AGO, Jamshid Rasuli has confirmed his arrest warrant. …

AT News Report KABUL: Four children and two men are dead and four women and a child wounded after a passenger car carrying them plunged into water in southern Helmand province, an official said Sunday.  MuladadTobagar, the Greshk district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident happened in …

Traditionally, the state of Pakistan has an potential enmity with India by birth and a long–term border difference and ethnic tension with Afghanistan. After independence it has fought four declared wars with India without any success. The policy of Islamisation pursued by the regime of Zia-ul-Haq and later governments proceeded …

President Dr. Ashraf Ghani is going to make history by visiting Islamabad as he already scrambling with legitimacy as expiry of his constitutional term has already gone away in May 22nd. Earlier after assuming the office in 2014 he had made a visit to Islamabad as without any prior invitation …

AT News Report KABUL: The United States peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad is in the region as part of his mission over the peace process in Afghanistan. Khalilzad has so far held six rounds of negotiations with Taliban representatives in Qatar to reach an agreement for the end of …

AT News Report KABUL: A number of members of parliament accuse the government of interfering in the parliament affairs, calling it “injurious” for the legislative independence. They said Saturday that the government makes obstacles for the resolving of problems made following election of parliament speaker last month that faced an …

AT News Report KABUL: First Vice Preisent, Abdul Rashid Dostum has warned that Daesh terrorist group would likely take Taliban’s place in the country’s long time war if the militants abandon insurgency. Daesh’s branch called Khorasan Province has already made footprints in Afghanistan and has strongholds in the eastern provinces …

AT News Report KABUL: Some presidential candidates accuse the government and President Ashraf Ghani in particular of making efforts to turn the upcoming presidential contests for his benefits. They say that President Ghani was campaigning at high levels to turn elections in his benefit, despite his term was legally over …

South Asia has seen inter-state wars and intra-state violent movements during most of its post colonial history, but its experience with terrorism by non-state actors is relatively recent as compared to other regions such as the Middle East. In the last decades or so, South Asia has, indeed, emerged as …

AT News Report BERLIN: At the sidelines of the ‘Berlin Climate and Security Conference’, Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs of Afghanistan Mr. Idrees Zaman on Saturday attended a lunch reception hosted by the Special Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany Mr. Markus Potzel. Deputy Minister Zaman provided a …