Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Some members of the parliament accused the High Peace Council of being at the government’s service, saying the council has turned to a place for government campaigns. They also said Monday that they doubted the council’s independence, adding it should be shut. The leadership of the peace council was …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: India’s seventh consignment of wheat to be sent to Afghanistan arrived at Iran’s Southeastern Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar on Monday, it has been reported. “India’s cargo vessel named Arezoo carrying 600 containers arrived in Chabahar port in Sistan-Baluchestan province,” Hossein Shahdadi, an official with the province’s …

AT-KABUL: The health ministry in joint venture with Bayat Foundation on Monday laid foundation stone of a maternity hospital within Indira Ghandi Children’s Hospital compound in Kabul. According to a press statement, the 100-bed maternity hospital will be built in four floors and will have many facilities including a blood bank, eye and ear …

Long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections has been planned for 20th October, almost three years past the expiry of the sitting parliament’s five-year mandate – despite major security and logistical challenges and amid pressure of increasingly impatient international partners and consecutive security brass promises to hold the elections prelude to …

AT-KABUL: A cricket stadium with international standards was opened Monday in Kandahar province. Indian government has financed the project. The inauguration of the stadium took place with the presence of the provincial officials, Indian ambassador to Kabul and a large number of the businessmen and cricket fans. Kandahar provincial governor, …

AT-KABUL: Over 20 Taliban fighters including a key member of Quetta Shura have been killed and 15 others wounded, after Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban gathering in Northern Kunduz province on Monday. Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban meeting in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz and killed over 20 Taliban …

AT-KABUL: The enemies of education have sprayed poison into a school in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, sickening about 43 schoolgirls in what authorities suspect is a case of group poisoning. Public Health Director Dr. Aminullah Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News the poisoned girls were evacuated to Bost …

AT-KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has urged people to push the Taliban into acceding peace talks. Visiting eastern province of Paktia’s Gardez on Sunday, Ghani said the peace proposition he unraveled a month ago was an exceedingly effective plan for achieving a lasting peace. However, Taliban have not responded to the …

AT News Report-KABUL: The European Union unveiled on Sunday a major campaign to fight corruption in Afghanistan, seeking to address three critical sectors including elections, economic growth and development. A statement from EU said the three-week campaign would culminate with a high-level anti-corruption conference in mid-April. Ambassador Pierre Mayaudon, head …

AT-KABUL: As many as 34 people including a woman and a citizen of Iran have been arrested for their involvement in major drug trafficking practices across Afghanistan last week, authorities said. The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Sunday said the counternarcotics police forces had caught the suspects …