Afghanistan Times

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 …

Though in a meeting with US special envoy, the National Unity Government assured of extending much more support for making fruitful the coming two days intra Afghan dialogue at Doha Qatar but the analysts say that Presidential Palace is trying to send more government officials to the upcoming Doha meeting …

AT News Report KABUL: The courts of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Tuesday said it has sentenced 15 drug traffickers to short and long incarceration in the past one week.  CJTF in a press statement said the primary and appeal courts of CJTF have convicted 15 smugglers to five …

AT News Report KABUL: Taliban say that nobody would represent Afghan government in the intra-Afghan negotiations slated to be held next week in the Qatari capital of Doha city. The Doha meeting is a follow up of the February’s session held between Taliban representatives and some politicians from Kabul including …

AT News Report LASHKAR GAH: The following is a transcript of the statement delivered by the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto on the Role of Women in Peace and Security in Afghanistan. Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission; H.E. Yasin Khan, Governor of Helmand …