Afghanistan Times

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 …

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s special envoy Umer Daudzai met with head of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party Siraj-ul-Haq in Islamabad on Thursday during his four-day visit to discuss Kabul-Taliban peace process. The Afghan envoy and the Pakistani religious scholar discussed all possible and practical ways to help in achieving peace in Afghanistan, …

NEW DELHI: Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reiterated that the involvement of Taliban leadership is important for the success and sustainability of Afghan peace process. Speaking at the fourth edition of the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi on Thursday, Mr. Karzai said: “Taliban belongs to our country” and that their …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission could make a decision to postpone the presidential election scheduled for April 20 until June 20 under pressure from the United States, which needs time to get ready for the voting in accordance with its scenario, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India has briefed the visiting United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad about its policy in the South Asian neighbour and Pakistan’s role in the region.  Khalilzad met Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday and foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Friday.  Ministry of External …