Afghanistan Times
South Korea’s foreign ministry in a statement reacted to the recent ballistic missile launch by its rival North. 1. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted its fifth ballistic missile launch this year, on April 16, 2017. The Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) condemns in the strongest …
Read More »Social integration is only remedy to overcome current crisis: Rana Think Tank
By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Experts participating in the Rana Think Tank monthly session on Monday expressed concerns over current crisis, calling social integration the only remedy to lead the country toward stability and development. Political and social experts who participated in the Think Tank monthly session, said that discord, nepotism and …
Read More »Masoud condemns MOAB strike: ‘There is other proper way to eliminate Daesh’
AT-KABUL: Political expert and Ex-president Karzai’s advisor Shahzada Masoud on Tuesday condemned the use of mother of bombs by US forces on Daesh tunnels in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province. He said that there was other proper ways to target Daesh fighters. The US forces Afghanistan conducted an …
Read More »US party opposes Trump’s use of MOAB bomb in Afghanistan
AT-KABUL: A political party in the United States has declared opposition to Donald Trump administration’s use of the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb. “We stand opposed to acts of aggression, such as the MOAB (Massive Ordinance Air Blast) Bomb the United States recently used on the Achin district of Afghanistan, which …
Read More »No forgiveness for Nangarhar attack: Karzai
“Regional countries should join hands to save Afghanistan from current situation” AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai lambasted Washington for dropping a BGU-43/B ‘mother of all bombs” the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal – on Nangarhar province as an action that could never be forgiven, and said the US should …
Read More »Taliban’s gains, loss since 2006
AT-KABUL: Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi in an email calculating statistics and figures of Taliban’s fight over the past ten years has said, since 2006 till 2017, the Taliban insurgent groups have carried out 103,927 operational activities against Afghan government personnel and foreign troops. This includes 1,075 suicide attacks. These …
Read More »Transfer order of Qarabagh police chief sparks protest
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A large number of people organized a peaceful protest on Tuesday against a presidential order, transferring the entire police station in Qarabagh district of central Kabul province. Abdul Sami Sharifi, the district’s administrative chief, said Qarabagh police chief including the whole staff of the police station had …
Read More »Karzai calls recent US bombing ‘an immense atrocity’
KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people.” Last week, U.S. forces dropped the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb in eastern …
Read More »Editorial: Pride or shame?
It is very shameful act that one Afghan to be killed by another, and the most disgraceful is to claim responsibility for the killing in a manner of pride instead of shame. The Afghan masses during more than three decades of war have gone through many ups and downs. But …
Read More »Kapisa officials detained on corruption charges
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local provincial authorities on Tuesday said that ten military and civilian officials have been detained in central Kapisa provinces on charges of corruption. Police Spokesperson Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that the individuals were detained on Monday by Ministry of Interior’s Heinous Crime Department Personnel. …
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