Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Government security forces have repelled Taliban after an overnight attack on Thursday on Khawaja Sabz Posh district, northwestern Faryab province, officials said Friday. District Chief Abdullah Masoumi said the militants attacked the district on Thursday night after they had sneaked into the district market. During the confrontations with the …

AT-KABUL: Government officials at an UN-backed symposium in Takhar’s capital city gathered with activists, professors and other community leaders to discuss recent efforts in the north-eastern province to improve protections for women’s rights. Some 30 people attended the one-day event, organized by UNAMA’s Kunduz regional office, to consider practical ways …

Last week, Imran Khan, leader of Tehreek-e-Insaf, tweeted a Washington Post story in which Washington Post published an interview of Nawaz Sharif. This interview story was published in 1994. In this story, Nawaz Sharif claimed that Pakistan army is involved in heroin smuggling to the United States and some other …

By Hamdullah Mohib-Hidayatullah Zaheer, known as Zee to his many friends, was killed earlier this month in my hometown of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, during a terror attack on a cricket match that he organized to celebrate peace and unity during the holy month of Ramadan. The attack killed eight people and …

By John Grady-The United States, NATO and coalition partners indirectly created more warlords “who were just as bad as the terrorists themselves” for Afghans by pouring huge amounts of money into grandiose projects without proper oversight and coordination, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said Thursday. Speaking at the …

AT-KABUL: At least 67 militants have been killed and 40 others received injuries in multiple extensive military crackdowns carried out by the Afghan security forces across the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said on Thursday. In a press release issued here, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said …

AT-KABUL: The United Nations in Afghanistan on Thursday says a female staffer and her child who were under four months of hostage have been released. “The release of the women and her young son is of enormous relief to their loved ones, colleagues and to the entire UN family in …

During the past several decades the main victims of war have been civilians. War has been taking high toll on them whether in Iraq, Syria, or our motherland Afghanistan. It’s a crystal reality that war spares no one neither combatants nor civilians, neither men nor women, neither children nor adults. …

The policy of Afghanistan Times Daily dictates us to be against any bombing. This newspaper abhors bombings and considers them at odds with the national sovereignty of Afghanistan. Yesterday, the daily published an opinion suggesting that bombs should be dropped on poppy fields to decimate the source of terrorist financing. …

AT-KABUL: Some members of parliament called Iran as “second Pakistan”, referring to Pakistan’s enmity with Afghanistan, saying Tehran’s military support to Taliban was a matter of concern. The parliament’s concerns come after the US officials claimed that Iran was supporting Taliban to fight US and Afghan forces. Lawmakers called it …