Afghanistan Times

2 dead in gunfire on similar campaignin Herat By Farhad Naibkhel KABUL: At least 15 people were killed in northern Takhar province after a motorbike laden with explosives went off behind an election campaign tent for a woman standing as a candidate in parliamentary polls. A motorbike full of explosive …

AT News Report-KABUL: Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology announced on Saturday a plan to secure 1 billion afghanis from revenues of postal services by end of the current budget year. Postal income reached to 700 million afghanis in the first seven months of the fiscal year and is expected …

AT News Report-KBAUL: Nine insurgents of the Taliban radical movement blew themselves up while planting explosive devices for terrorist attacks in Baghlan province, according to officials. A group of nine armed Taliban insurgents were killed and another wounded after their own explosives went off while they were placing a roadside …

AT News Report-KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, met Saturday with a number of students who are going to continue higher education in the universities of Russian Federation. These students are going to Russia with the help of Karzai Foundation that has provided them with scholarships. Karzai advised the students that …

By Basir Qazizada-KABUL: The government’s opposition parties are pessimistic over the use of biometric system to prevent fraud in the election, amid government and election commission’s efforts in sending the machineries to the polling stations across the country. The political parties opposing government under a coalition had been previously urging …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Following US efforts to bring a negotiated settlement to the ongoing war in Afghanistan, the Russia—a state who his various of issues with US, has said to hold a grand meeting on Afghanistan peace at the end of October. Moscow’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Affairs, Zamir Kabulov …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Returning from his Middle East tour, US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with President Ghani Saturday morning and briefed him on the outcomes of his roster of meetings with Arab and Pakistani leaders on peace quest. Khalilzad reiterated US stout commitment to Afghan peace …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Amid a fierce fighting in Afghanistan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan hailed success on the battlefield by Afghan forces against terrorists and insisted that President Trump’s strategy must be given a chance to succeed in drawing the insurgents to the negotiations table and, …

The ingeniously established Pakhtoon Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) is ahead with hard days as Pakistani organs initiated acts and actions against its leading members. At least nine of its leading members from Swabi have been arrested on the charges of arranging a rally without permission on August 10 last and using …

AT News Report-A blast as a result of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) have killed five civilians who were attending a wedding party in Afghanistan’s central Logar province—a tool the insurgent groups use against Afghan and foreign forces that unfortunately almost leads to civilian casualty. The provincial police chief spokesman, Shahpoor …