Afghanistan Times

AT News Report-KabuL: Local authorities began Saturday a campaign to administer anti-polio and smallpox vaccines to children in eastern Nangarhar province, which is expected to continue for ten days. Nangarhar Provincial Health Directorate in a statement aid that it has started a ten days anti-polio and small pox vaccination campaign, …

AT News Report-KabuL: Ministry of Education will recruit 30,000 female teachers within five years to increase the presence of women in education sector. Running of this program is aimed to boost up access to education to deprived girls, reduce the drop in girls’ education and pave the way for women’s …

Quest for peace has been underway since years back when the Taliban insurgents remerged in more brutal way with intensification of attacking security forces, and military installations that besides security forces, civilian also sustained casualties. Though the Taliban have failed to gain their nefarious designs by use of violence and …

The former president believes a Washington-Moscow nexus on ‘the ailing reconciliation endeavor’ could establish the foundation of a peaceful Afghanistan as Moscow conference was a tremendous first stride; Touting the Moscow conference that brought Kabul and Taliban representatives together in one table, former president Hamid Karzai called on the United …

Certain circles in Pakistan are now bent upon to exploit alleged hurdles and delay in handing over dead body of slain police officer Tahir Khan Dawar at Torkham. Soon after getting the dead body from a tribal elders delegations headed by Member National Assembly Mohsin Dawar, Pakistan’s Deputy Interior Affairs …

AT-KABUL: The Kabul University was closed until an unknown date due to tensions among students, ministry of higher education said Friday. A number of students started clashes with each other over some political and ethnic issues on Thursday, in which several of them were killed and injured. The incident caused …

AT-KABUL: The government employees who travel to Logar or other south-eastern provinces, are dragged out of buses by Taliban fighters along the Kabul-Logar highway, passengers and local residents say. The witnesses have told Kabul News that the militants emerge on the road in the Mohammad Agha district of Logar provinces. …

AT-KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 69 Taliban insurgents in different raids conducted across the country in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense said Friday. 15 other militants have also received injures in the attack carried out in different areas of Laghman, Nangarhar, Paktika, Ghazni, …

AT-KABUL: The National Security Council (NSC) has directed the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) to accelerated counter-insurgency operations across the country to curb civilian and ANDSF causalities. The instruction has made when the Taliban insurgents intensified attacking security forces, in which civilians suffered as well. Thousands of civilian …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Representatives from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, United States and Afghanistan have met in Abu Dhabi to discuss efforts to restore security and stability to push forward the peace process in Afghanistan, according to an Emirates News agency. The US Special Envoy for Afghan Peace in, Zalmay Khalilzad, …