Afghanistan Times

In the wake of Pakistan’s freeing Taliban’s co-founder, former President Hamid Karzai is pinning hope that Mullah Baradar’s release will usher in advancements in peace process in Afghanistan. The former president was also applause for Pakistani government’s decision to free the militant leader from prison, saying it was a positive …

AT-KABUL: People in the southern province of Kandahar are to come out to elect their representatives in the parliament, a week later the polls were opened in another 32 provinces (Polling sites remain closed in Ghazni province for some unknown reasons) as the election was postponed because of the killing …

AT-KABUL: More than 650,000 Afghan refugees have repatriated from Iran and Pakistan this year, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) said on Friday. From Pakistan 27,375 and from Iran 630,283 refugees have returned to Afghanistan since the beginning of 2018, the IOM said in a statement. It added, last week …

AT-KABUL: At least three terrorists were killed after a U.S.-led airstrike pummeled an area where a group of terrorists associated with ISIS-K were planting roadside mines in eastern Nangarhar province. The 201st Silab Military Corps in the East said a group of three ISIS-K militants who were planting an improvised …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday it has devised a policy aimed at preventing sexual harassment in the squads of the national army amid existence of violations of women’s rights. The ministry’s spokesman Ghafoor Ahmad Jawid said: “This policy is an efficient stride to protect immunity and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: NATO has limited face to face communication with Afghan security forces after the Kandahar and Herat incidents. On October 18, Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq and the provincial National Directorate Security (NDS) head were killed and some other high-level government officials and US general were wounded …

Afghanistan and its people are suffering since a long due to blind faiths in each and everyone. During so-called cold war they remain divided as some of them expecting Socialist Revolution from former USSR whereas someone attached hopes with US led allies regarding enforcement of Islamic Sharia. And similar was …

Once again the recent violent acts, especially assassination of Gen. Abdul Razzeq Achakzai made anger the war affected Afghans. President Ashraf Ghani said Gen. Razzeq murder was planed in other side of the Durand Line. However, the issue is being exploited through social media and Afghans from all over the …

KABUL: The High Peace council emphasizes on the cooperation of regional countries to reach a durable peace in Afghanistan, saying sustainable peace would be impossible without their help. Deputy Chief of the council, Hajji Din Mohammad said Wednesday that Afghanistan should be a cooperation point between the United States and …

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai says it was better that the parliamentary election would not have been held considering the current situation in Afghanistan and would have been better to hold it along with the next year’s presidential election or even after that. In an exclusive interview with the Voice …