Afghanistan Times

India on Sunday said it was committed to the economic reconstruction of Afghanistan and to promote an inclusive “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled” peace and reconciliation process in the war-torn country. India’s position was enunciated by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj at the historic India-Central Asia Dialogue here, with the participation …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan will not allow the United States to use its bases in the country to conduct any act of aggression against neighboring countries, says a top Afghan diplomat. “Relations with neighbors are of special significance to the Afghan government in Kabul. Therefore, we will never allow the …

AT-KABUL: A veteran Pakhtoon politician expressed his dread over what he said a possible civil war to go off in Afghanistan if the Kabul administration sidelined from fresh peace talks. Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao told a news conference on Saturday that the administration of President Ashraf …

KABUL: Optimism is increasing in the government regarding Pakistan’s assistance in the peace process as a delegation visited recently Islamabad to demand the neighboring country persuade Taliban militants to join the peace talks. Umer Daudzai, head of the state-run High Peace Council’s secretariat met with different officials and politicians in …

KABUL: Afghanistan was the world’s most dangerous country for journalists in 2018 due to the high risk of violence and censorship of information, according to a poll of an Afghan watchdog. Journalists Safety Committee on Thursday said that 120 cases of violence against journalists had been recorded in Afghanistan in …

KABUL: The recent heavy snowfalls in different provinces have sparked hopes among the people of the end or at least decrease of drought dominating the country for several consecutive years. Kabul city and its surrounding areas were twice covered by the white blanket of snow since the beginning of winter, …

KABUL: Some one million educated people mostly the youth are unemployed and seek jobs, the government says. “More than 2.5 million people are jobless from whom 45 per cent are high school graduates or hold university diplomas. The rest are skillful who have access to some vocations,” Sohrab Bahman, spokesman …

KABUL: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad wants the Taliban to concede to the Afghan government’s offer to talk in bid to negotiate a political settlement to the 17-year-old conflict. “We want them to sit together. It is for Afghans to sort out their problems and …

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s national security advisor Hamdullah Mohib met Thursday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and launched into the nitty-gritty of advancing Afghanistan-Taliban peace efforts. Mohib and Wang Yi discussed peace process under leadership of Afghanistan, regional security and bilateral relations, the National Security Council said on Friday …

KABUL: Foreign forces in Afghanistan killed an Islamic State commander in an air strike in eastern Nangarhar province, security officials said. “The notorious Daesh commander Khateb Ameer has been killed in an air strike which foreign forces launched in Nangarhar,” a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said on Friday. Javid …