Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Pashtun Protection Movement on Sunday held a big public gathering in Quetta, capital city of Baluchistan province, against state sponsored terrorism, military atrocities and human rights violations, racial profiling and demanded immediate recovery of more than 32, 000 missing Pashtuns for the past 15 years. The …

After years of suppression and victimization, the long suffering Pashtuns—second largest ethnic population in Pakistan have finally found a voice and move against state sponsored terrorism and oppression. In January, thousands of ethnic Pashtuns from Tribal Region (FATA), accompanied by Pashtuns from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan marched toward Islamabad, after …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan needs to be more serious about fighting drugs after an alarming 63 percent increase in opium cultivation this year, the U.N. drugs agency said on Sunday, warning that Afghanistan is still the “biggest poppy producing country in the world”. A report of the UN International Narcotics Control Board …

AT-KABUL: After a vote in the parliament on Sunday, Humayun Humayun was elected as the first deputy speaker of the Lower House of the parliament, but another election is in the offing for the designation of second speaker and secretary of the lower house. A day earlier, the lower house …

Kabul: The French Medical Institue for Mothers and Children (FMIC) held its third graduation ceremony of the postgraduate medical education programme (PGME) on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at FMIC in Kabul.Afghanistan’s first women doctor specializing in radiology is among the 12 doctors awarded certificates of specialization by Dr Bashir Noormal, …

AT-KABUL: The United States has called on the Taliban to accept President Ashraf Ghani’s recent peace suggestion and put an end to the war. “President Ghani’s suggestion for unconditional talks with Taliban is more clear and certain than any other suggestions in the past,” said Alice Wells, deputy assistant secretary …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: An upcoming conference of religious scholars from Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan to be hosted by Indonesia, aimed at seeking a solution to the imposed war in Afghanistan has been opposed by Taliban. Contributing to the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, the role of Ulema and influence of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US President Donald Trump administration has ruled out the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and any direct negotiations with the Taliban until the militant group conceded to the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process. Taliban’s open letter to the US government and people, seeking direct talks and …

AT-KABUL: Violence against women has increased 11.7 per cent compared to the last year, the independent human rights commission said in its annual report. Physical violence, women’s murders, field trials, sexual violence and economic problems are the issues the report mentioned that women were facing with. Sima Samar, director of …

AT-KABUL: A senior Afghan diplomat says that Islamabad has certain demands from Kabul that he believes can be discussed. Hekmat Khalil Karzai, deputy foreign minister said that Pakistani authorities do not frankly speak about their demands, but “relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan’s immediate rival, India is a matter of concern …