Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: The terrorist attack agiant Nangarhar Refugee Directorate was ended on Tuesday afternoon after the two attackers involved in the attack were killed by the security forces. The attack which began around 12:00 pm was ended after the two attackers were killed by the security forces around 5:00 pm. At …

AT-KABUL: A number of the members of the Parliament rejected a plan made by the defense ministry based on which, the military is to hand over remote areas with few population to the local army. The scheme was earlier announced by the defense ministry, but parliamentarians on Monday, said the …

AT-KABUL: The newly appointed commissioners for the electoral complaints commission are set to start their works on Tuesdayin all provinces, the commission said Monday. They are planned to start work while the complaints commission has only four days ahead to announce the end of assessing electoral complaints. The commission’s spokesman, …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani, met with his first deputy, Abdul Rashid Dostum in the presidential palace, after a two year row by which the latter stayed in exile in Turkey. The presidential palace said the meeting took place in the presence of second vice president, Sarwar Danesh and chief executive …

AT-KABUL: A tribal elder was killed along with his three bodyguards in a truck bombing in eastern Nangahar province on Monday. The bombing took place late in the evening around 6:30pm in Jalalabad-Turkham highway in Roadat district when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden mini-truck near to the vehicle …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Monday, while marking World Hepatitis Day, said that over 58,000 people are suffering from hepatitis B and C throughout the country. Hepatitis is a silent and dangerous disease, which is regrettably on a steady rise, to which more and more people are …

The menace of terrorism has been plaguing Afghanistan, like a disease without panacea, and made it so intricate and intriguing for the West – the protagonists of this ghastly war – to annihilate the pillars of terrorism which marches on unabated. This pseudo war is taking lives in thousands. The …

AT-KABUL: The British government on Monday unveiled a new aid package of £10 million to provide food for over 1.4 million drought-hit people across Afghanistan. The package will provide immediate food and nutrition aid for 441,000 people who are already in a critical situation, including by distributing fortified wheat flour, …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock said on Monday it has allocated 1,000 tons of donated wheat to be distributed among internally displaced people in the western provinces of Farah, Badghis and Ghor. According to a statement, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock during his three-day visit from …

AT-KABUL: The President-led National Procurement Commission has approved four contracts worth a sum of Afs 1 billion, which will be funneled in technology and medical sectors. After assessing a total of nine projects, the NPC under the chairmanship of President Ghani approved four projects amounting to Afs 1 billion, said …