Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s peace council hopes Russia will play a role in the peace process between the country and the insurgent Taliban. Russia is a powerful regional stakeholder and should be included in Afghanistan’s peace talks, an official at the High Peace Council said Tuesday. Hajji Din Mohammad, deputy head of …

AT-KABUL: Several contracts were signed among Afghanistan’s ministry of energy and water, De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat  (DABS) and  77 construction companies for implementing the second phase of Kajaki dam, presidential palace announced on Tuesday. Construction of Zameen Dawar canal in the Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province is also …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government has generated a revenue of 65 million afghanis from gold weighing 1.7 tons only in capital Kabul during the last year of 2017, Ministry of Finance on Tuesday announced. Habibullah Amin Andar, MoF’s revenue director for the central zone said the ministry’s revenue was collected …

The ministry of defense announced recently that it was working on the formation of a new force with the aim of maintaining the remote areas that have been taken from Taliban and other insurgent groups. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the ministry called the new force as “regional troops”. He said …

AT-KABUL: The defense ministry says that new addition of NATO and US soldiers can empower Afghan security forces especially the army’s commandos, air force and border troops. Thousands of extra troops from the United States and its allies in the NATO are set to arrive in Afghanistan to join over …

AT-KABUL: Gunmen torched a school in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday  night, an official said Monday. Emal Khan High School in Mohmand Dara district was attacked by four men around 9:00p.m., Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for provincial governor, told 1TV. They initially tied hands and legs of two guards …

AT-KABUL: Hundreds of enraged people blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway for a third day on Monday to protest civilian deaths blamed on gunmen in uniform in southern Ghazni province. The protest was started after two people including a child were killed by a number of armed men, who attacked a house …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The long dragged and debated dispute between the ousted governor of northern Balkh province and the central government over the transfer of authority to a new governor has been resolved through negotiations. Commenting on the new, but productive development, Afzal Hadid, head of Provincial Council in Balkh …

AT-KABUL: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Afghanistan’s Hezb-e-Islami has confirmed that President Ghani has supported his suggestion about giving autonomy for the Taliban and cede certain regions to the insurgent group in a bid to help reach to a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban group. In an …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) has informed on Sunday that the partner countries in CASA-1000 project have formally agreed to the establishment of a joint monitoring company to supervise the work on the mega regional project. DABS officials said the establishment of the joint monitoring company would …