Afghanistan Times

The unity government has initiated different steps to improve security situation and reform state institutions. Some of the efforts were productive. Unfortunately, most of the steps did not yield good results because nepotism, corruption and mismanagement are ripe for greed and fraud. There is no denying that trust deficit between …

By Anis H. Bajrektarevic-How to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU/EURO crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it seems: Neither Europe nor Asia has any alternative. The difference is that Europe well knows there is no alternative – and therefore is …

Since January tens of men in uniform were killed in the line of duty. This year was also bloody in terms of civilian casualties. Scores of civilians were killed in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Uruzgan, Kunduz and other provinces. The insurgent groups, backed by foreign terrorists and state actors in the …

Trilateral meeting at the absence of Afghan officials sparked concerns By Abdul Basir-KABUL: Russia, China and Pakistan have discussed regional issues including Afghanistan security situation and also the increasing activities of extremist groups like Islamic State also known as Daesh at a high-level meeting held in Moscow on Tuesday. However, …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of parliament strongly condemned the trilateral meeting over Afghanistan situation with the presence of representatives from Pakistan, Russia and China in Moscow while nobody was invited from Afghanistan. Lawmakers asked the government to take action against Moscow and address the …

AT-KABUL: The spokesman for ministry of interior Sediq Sediqi said Wednesday that over 400 leaders of the Taliban insurgents were killed during different operations lunched by security forces in the past nine months. He said that 420 Taliban battlefield commanders were killed in the past nine months in special operations. …

AT-KABUL: Prominent photojournalist Mohammad Yousuf Younusi passed away on Wednesday at the age of 55. Younusi has been in the Rehman Medical Institute Peshawar for the past three days after heart attack. Born in Kabul, Younusi’s father was also a photographer. He started working with the state-run media in the …

AT-KABUL: Fakoury Beheshti, a parliamentarian from Bamyan province, was injured along with three others when a bomb blast targeted his vehicle in western part of Kabul city on Wednesday morning, officials said. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was placed under a road bridge in Police District 6 in western part …

Around two months ago, the Russian officials have planned to host trilateral talks on Afghanistan. The invitation was extended only to China and Pakistan. It is very strange that these three important neighboring countries would discuss security situation in Afghanistan but the Afghan officials were not invited to attend the …

By Wakeel Khan-Following the fall of Sassanid Empire, two centuries of Arab hegemony in Khorasan was never popular in the Pashtun belt. This is evident from fierce resistance that was offered here to all Arabian attacks. A change in political realities, however, had come hard on the heels of Arab …