Afghanistan Times

AT News Report KABUL: Flights between Kabul and New Delhi have to use the long air way of Iran after tensions erupted between India and Pakistan, with the latter blocking its air way for the flights, officials said Friday. The state-run Ariana Airline is to launch its first flight via …

By Mansoor Faizy KABUL: The Taliban fighters have been carrying out attacks daily in different parts of Afghanistan while its leader is engaged with US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation in peace talks to end the 18-year long war. On Friday early morning, again the Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan …

Amidst conflicting points of views, the talks between US Special Envoy Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad and opposition Taliban political office suspended on Thursday, and will resume today. Taliban spokesperson says that talks suspended due to deviation of US negotiation team from what he called two main topics and started discussing “irrelevant” …

AT News Report KABUL: China’s Defense Ministry defended military cooperation with Tajikistan following a report of a sizable Chinese troop presence at a base in the Central Asian state. Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang told reporters at a monthly briefing that cooperation between the two was “in line with” international law …

AT News Report KABUL: The government of Pakistan has blocked air route for airplanes flying between Afghanistan and India, the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday, a move taken after Indian fighter jets attacked Pakistani-controlled area of Kashmir in an apparent retaliation to a suicide attack that targeted Indian army …

AT News Reports KABUL: The Civil Society criticizes the introducing process of electoral commissioners, saying the commissioners are introduced by personal relationships. Wahidullah Taroon a civil society activist said on Wednesday that people introduced for the posts are not professionals. Taroon added that those who had friends or relatives in …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The two nuclear—neighboring states, India and Pakistan say they have shot down each other’s warplanes in a dramatic escalation of their conflict over the disputed region of Kashmir. The Pakistani military initially said on Wednesday that the country’s air force had downed two India Air Force …

AT News Reports KABUL: Kabul residents complain for what they say “a culture of bribe” in government institutions. Money, tea, donation, why don’t you know the point?, are the expressions government employees use when asking clienteles for bribe. “One day I went to a government office, an employee told his …

AT News Report KABUL: In the wake of fresh peace talks with US special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, a Taliban spokesman said the group is close to reaching an agreement with the US on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Spokesman Suhail Shaheen made the comment in Doha, Qatar, following …

AT News Report KABUL: Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Idrees Zaman met with the Ambassador of the United States of America to Kabul Mr. John Bass, where they discussed important issues, including ongoing peace talks between US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and US negotiating team in Qatar. Ministry of Foreign Affairs …