Afghanistan Times

A peace process by its nature is a complex and tortuous journey, but nothing is impossible when there is will. Regional consensus is very much important to any peace building efforts. But there are some neighbors who proved detrimental to the peace process. Such elements, especially, Pakistan—the hostile neighbor, destroying …

AT-KABUL: The court of Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) on Wednesday said that 11 drug trafficker arrested in the past one week. The CJTF said in a press statement that 11 smugglers were apprehended by Counter Narcotics Police through different crackdown in various provinces and were handed over to CJTF …

AT-KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga, or the lower house of the parliament, has rejected the next year’s draft budget, terming lack of balance among the provinces, allocations for unapproved administrative units, and creation of unnecessary positions in some department, as key reason behind the rejection. Some days back, a number of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Afghan Second Vice President, Sarwar Danish on Tuesday met with his Indian counterpart, Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi, in which both sides discussed ways t boost bilateral ties. The two leaders held talks on cross-border militancy, Iran’s Chabahar Port and finding ways to enhance bilateral and …

AT-KABUL: Afghan forces detained three Turkish and one Afghan teacher of the Afghan-Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), who are allegedly blamed of having links with Turkish Government’s political opponent Fethullah Gulen. Afghan forces have detained the three Turks and one Afghan citizen including deputy head of the ATCE Tuesday morning …

AT-KABUL: Meshrano Jirga or upper house of the parliament on Tuesday expressed their anger over recent statements given by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, which according to senators it is a hostile remark to talk about shares of tribes in the government. Such comments would give birth to several …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A large members of Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament on Tuesday appreciated the police force for arresting suspects involved in heart-wrenching and homicidal incident of killing 10-members of a family in capital Kabul, urging the government to publically execute the culprits. On December 8, four …

AT-KABUL: Officials in the northern province of Jawzjan said that all the villages of the Darzab and Qosh Tepa districts were controlled by the Daesh terrorist group while security forces held only a handful of checkpoints. “Only the buildings of the police department and the district office are still controlled …

AT-KABUL: The Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday accused the government of not cooperating regarding the parliamentarian and district councils elections. Golajan Sayyad, spokesman for the commission said that the government did not approve their schemes on time and did not provide it with possibilities. “If security is ensured and the …

AT-KABUL: The new United States ambassador to Afghanistan, John R. Bass, presented his credentials to the President Ashraf Ghani, during a ceremony held at Presidential Palace on Tuesday, the US embassy said in a statement. “It was an honor to present my credentials to President Ghani today (Tuesday),” said Ambassador …