Afghanistan Times

AT-KABUL: The landmark cross-Afghanistan pipeline project will pave the grounds for boundless opportunities in Western Afghanistan and help tackle the ongoing economic tantrum. Residents of Western Farah province in a ceremony declared their full support for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline project. In attendance were provincial officials, tribal elders, youth civil society …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Construction work of retaining wall, funded by the World Bank has been completed in northern Samangan province, an official said Saturday. Rural rehabilitation and development director said the retaining wall—costing 26 million afghanis is 867 meters long, three meters high and 1.2 meters wide has constructed in …

AT-KABUL: The government has said that the process of repatriating Afghan migrants from Pakistan has begun. Ministry of refugees and repatriation said on Saturday that the process began on March 1st and since then a few families have returned to Afghanistan. Pakistan government asked Afghan migrants in December to leave …

AT-KABUL: The infrastructure of the Kabul-Paktia energy project is nearing its completion. The imported energy will add 220 KW of electricity to the national power grid. Kabul deputy provincial governor in a meeting with the project engineers on Saturday said his office had ordered district chiefs of Paghman, Char Asiab …

Since decades, Afghanistan has been famed as a museum of variant ethnicities. This nation has been in the fell clutch of increasingly oddly unpredictable circumstances. There was a time when Khorasan was a territory that prided itself on its rich and diverse culture. But what had happened to have inadvertently …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s defense ministry says it plans to recruit 36,000 to form regional defense forces. Proposed by the defense ministry, the plan was approved by President Ashraf Ghani. The government calls the establishment of the new force as “based on necessity”. “We started working on the plan after the president …

AT-KABUL: Afghanistan’s traders’ body says it does not trust Pakistan to cooperate in resolving transit and trade challenges confronting Afghan businessmen. After tensions raised between Kabul and Islamabad over the latter making troubles for the transit of the Afghan merchandise via Karachi sea port, Pakistan is said to facilitate export-import …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Chinese Ambassador to Kabul on Friday met representatives of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and pledged Beijing’s continued contributions to the reconstruction and economic development of Afghanistan and assistance to IDPs, Chinese media reported Saturday. During the meeting the Chinese Ambassador, Liu Jingsong and the representatives of IDPS …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Rebelling against the incumbent Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Mansour group has emerged in the eastern Nangarhar province, resulting in a division in the militant group. The new Taliban splinter group has been distributed letters in Khogyani, Pachirawgam Chaparhar and other districts of the province in which the …

The era of peace opportunity has been unfold in such a mass way that everyone is looking optimistic. The twice call of the Taliban insurgents for peace talks, though not with Afghan government, but with US, even further created atmosphere, in which possibility of peace talks is getting more visible …