Afghanistan Times

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: At least 11 children were martyred and 26 others including five Romanian soldiers were wounded after a car bomber targeted a military convoy in southern Kandahar province on Monday morning, provincial officials said. Kandahar Police Spokesperson Ahmad Zia Duranai said a car bomb blew off near a …

AT-KABUL: In the wake of deadly twin suicide bombings in Kabul, the Afghan Parliament in an open letter has called on the United Nations Security Council to adopt immediate measures to stop the killing of Afghan people. At least 25 people including nine journalists were killed and four policemen and …

The Afghan media has rapidly grown with vast achievements after the collapse of the Taliban regime. In the past 17 years, free media was only starting place for the previous and incumbent governments to proud of, and also the leaders put weight behind free media. At the outset there was …

By Pashtana Durrani-Handful civil society members have started struggle for establishing Bacha Khan International University. The initial concept note was written by Khan Wali Khan Basharmal, an educationist and a political economist engaged in Afghan and International sphere while writing on relevant concepts and strategies. Later this concept note was …

The US envoy has confided that the claim that the United States is behind the creation of Islamic State group is bogus; and that Ghani’s peace quest may counter-intuitively unexpectedly culminate in ultimate peace; By Sayed Seddiq Hussainy-KABUL: A senior US envoy to Afghanistan has reassured the White House’s continuous …

AT-GARDEZ: Participants at UN-backed events in the southeastern provinces of Paktya and Paktika called on community members to work together to support women’s participation in the upcoming elections, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement on Sunday. In two separate public events held in the …

AT-KABUL: Taliban fighters were pushed back during operations launched jointly by the Afghan and US troops in 20 villages of the Chahar Bolak district in the northern province of Balkh, the army’s 209 Shaheen corps said Sunday. The military corps said in a statement that during the Operation Walid 5 …

By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA-Government funded schools take on the largest number of students from grade one to grade twelve across the country, and Ministry of Education is the largest employer in Afghanistan. Thousands of schools are run by the Ministry across the country. Thousands of teachers and school administrative staffs …

AT-KABUL: Afghan government believes that China and India’s big economic projects are not only in the benefit of Kabul, but also the region would enjoy them. India and China reportedly reached agreement over implementing big economic projects in Afghanistan in Indian prime minister’s recent visit to Beijing. They are said …

AT-KABUL: The counter-narcotics have been included the Nosrat operational plan carried out by police, army and intelligence agency, the interior ministry said Sunday. The Nosrat operation began in mid March and is going on in 34 provinces against the Taliban militants. The ministry said that the counter-narcotics plan was also …