Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Taliban’s increasing presence and activities have sparked worries among the members of senate, as they say that more than half of area of the Khak-e-Jabbar district is under the militants’ control. “The government’s armed opposition have presence in 40 out of 60 villages of Khak-e-Jabbar district. They have warned …

AT-KABUL: Ali Mohammad Zohma, a prominent litterateur, translator and pioneer politician, passed away at the age of 96 in Vienna, Austria. Late Zohma was a famous historian, philosopher, sociologist and literature expert. He was also the founder of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, who founded translation of strong literature …

AT-KABUL: Security forces have pummeled enemy strongholds in offensives that have left at least 147insurgents dead and 33others wounded over the past days. Monday night was deadly for the Taliban, as more than 25 other militants were killed during a clash with security forces in Kandahar province. Police chief’s spokesman, …

AT-KABUL: Furious protests have erupted in northern Kunduz province in reaction to the kidnapping of a jeweler’s son, as protesters shut the governor’s house on Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Wali Ahmad, son of a jeweler, four days ago in Kunduz city. Reports say that more than 10 people have been …

AT-KABUL: Afghan Special Forces in an overnight operation raided a Taliban prison in volatile Helmand and rescued 58 people including security personnel from lock up, local military authorities said. “In a raid on a Taliban prison, Afghan army special forces liberated58 people in Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province, …

AT-KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has argued that the United States strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia has been counterproductive which has also caused an escalation of violence. In an interview with China’s CGTN television channel, Karzai also cast shadows on the prospects of withdrawal of American forces from …

AT-KABUL: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezbi Islami Afghanistan, has raised concerns that elections with the ongoing faulty system will have dangerous pitfalls and will pave the ground once again for interference of outsiders. In his address in a news conference, Hekmatyar said the forthcoming elections will be inundated with rigging …

AT-KABUL: More than 31 drug traffickers have been caught over the past week following a nation-wide crackdown by the counternarcotics police, the Court of Criminal Justice Task Force said on Tuesday. The culprits, among whom are two women and an Iranian, have been handed to the CJTF for criminal investigations …

KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed on Sunday that he will run for office during next year’s presidential polls, insisting that it was essential to hold the elections despite rising violence in the country. “My allies are the nation of Afghanistan; three major strata of (Afghan society): Young people, women …

Nothing can atone for ‘peace and reconciliation’ debacle and perhaps nothing can circumvent the menace it spews, except for a termination of perennial hypocrisy and political deceit; and nothing can unlock the conflict in the war-shattered country except for a genuine spirit and grit to recoil from unhinging quasi-counterterrorism policies …