Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned disrespect of civilians by the Afghan and foreign soldiers in Helmand province. Afghan and foreign forces in a joint operation, killed some civilians and took two women as hostages in the Babaji area of Nad Ali district. Karzai said in …

AT News Report KABUL: Residents in Logar province call on the government and Taliban to observe a truce in order to successfully push the peace negotiations. They express happiness with the Qatar meeting, but criticize the intensifying clashes between two parties, saying that continued war would put negative impact on …

AT News Report KABUL: Parliamentarians and political analysts express concerns over the fresh escalation of Iran-US tensions as a new threat for Afghanistan. In a latest move, the United States on Monday announced that it designates Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, a …

AT News Report KABUL: The visit of Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to Jordan has created new hopes for broadening Afghanistan’s business with more countries, the chief executive spokesman says. Abdullah made a two-day trip to Amman to attend the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa. He …

AT News Report KABUL: People in the southern province of Helmand claim that the Afghan and foreign forces have taken women as hostage in a joint operation launched in the Nad Ali district. Local residents staged a demonstration on Tuesday to protest the incident that took place Monday night in …

AT News Reports KABUL: The Human Rights Commission in Northern Faryab province expressed its deepest anxiety over spike in the act of violence against women, where despite scrambling for the rights of women, violence against them have been sharply intensified. Zabiullah Jawad Head of provincial human rights commission, said Tuesday …

“Such cowardly act will not impede US efforts to achieve peace” By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has strongly condemned Taliban’s attack on US forces, in which at least three US forces and a contractor were killed near Bagram base in northern Parwan province. However, the …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives in a letter has called for a briefing by the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, who left Kabul on Sunday after a series of talks with Afghan leaders, politicians and civil society members. “Representative Eliot L. …

AT News Report KABUL: The President Ashraf Ghani has welcomed European Council’s adopted conclusion on the peace process while reaffirming its political and economic commitment to the country. The EU Council on Monday discussed the situation in Afghanistan with a special focus on the ongoing efforts for peace and how …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) recently shocked the cricketing world by replacing captain Asghar Afghan in all three formats of the game internationally with just around 2 months to go for the marquee ICC World Cup 2019. Gulbadin Naib was handed the ODI captaincy of the …