Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: At least eight people have been killed and 16 others received injuries when avalanche hit Shar-e-Bozerg district of northeastern Badakhshan province, the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) said on Monday. Sayed Humayun Dehqan, the (ANDMA) head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident happened Sunday afternoon …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  A member of Meshrano Jirga (Senate), Gul Ahmad Azimi has claimed that regional intelligence agencies and certain elements within the system were involved in the Wednesday’s deadly attack on Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan Hospital in Kabul. He said that infiltration of terrorists in highly-guarded hospital was never …

Session over security issue, particularly on hospital attack delayed for Monday AT-KABUL: The members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of the parliament on Sunday elected Abdul Qader Zazai as the secretary of house. After three rounds of election among several rivals, Abdul Qader Zazai succeeded to gain majority of …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A senator of Pakistan’s Federal Administered Tribal Area (FATA) has said that he was optimistic that the cross-borders would be reopened for commute and business affairs from next week. Senator Taj Muhammad Afridi was addressing a gathering for the inauguration of a girls’ school in the Landikotal …

AT-KABUL: The Ministry Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) on Sunday said that 9,077 welfare projects have been implemented across the country in the past 12 months of the solar year. “The schemes were implemented at a total cost of $245.2 million in 6,326 villages of 326 districts throughout the country,” …

AT-KABUL: At least thirty-one Taliban militants were killed in a series of airstrikes carried out by the Afghan and foreign air forces in southern Helmand province, officials said Sunday. Provincial government media office said in a statement that the strikes were conducted in the provincial capital city of Lashkar Gah …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai was saddened by learning of the death of a veteran scholar Professor Mohammad Fazel, his office said on Saturday. “Late Professor Fazel had been long serving his country’s education and higher education as a teacher, lecturer, principal, head, deputy minister and minister of education,” Karzai …

AT-KABUL: The mastermind of a July suicide attack against the enlightenment movement protesters that killed and wounded scores of demonstrators in Kabul city, was killed during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Saturday. “The organizer of the bombing on the enlightenment movement demonstration Abdul Qaiom, also known as …

AT-KABUL Eight local police officers all members of the same check post were killed by their colleague having links with the Taliban in southern Zabul province, officials said on Saturday. Eight local police were killed after their colleague who was working for the Taliban shot them at a checkpoint in …

AT-KABUL: At least 64 militants were killed and 16 others were wounded in different operations launched by the national army in the past 24 hours, the military said Saturday. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National …