Afghanistan Times

President approves election law; Govt committed to support media outlets By MansoorFaizy-KABUL: The prolong deadlock on electoral reforms has been ended after President Ashraf Ghani approved election law, and soon the selection committee will start working. Shah Hussain Murtazawi, the President’s Deputy Spokesman in a press briefing on Saturday said …

AT-KABUL: The Police Chief in the southern province of Uruzgan was fired from his post after the increasing insecurity there, local officials confirmed Saturday. “Ministry of Interior sacked Uruzgan police chief Mohammad Wais Samimi on Friday,” said provincial spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab. He said that the police chief had been …

Parliamentary and district councils’ polls have been pushed back by the government as the unity government leaders wanted to inject heavy dose of reforms in the ailing electoral bodies—Independent Election Commission and Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. People from all walks of life want to see electoral reforms taking place, but …

AT-KABUL: At least 43 Taliban insurgents were killed and 23 others wounded in different operations launched by the security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, security officials said on Saturday. “The national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate of security operatives, …

AT-KABUL: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Saturday approved a $31.37 million grant to prepare the Salang Corridor rehabilitation to improve the efficiency and safety of movement of goods and people in Afghanistan and across Central Asia, Afghan and ADB officials announced. “We are grateful for the continued support and …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The commander of the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson has said that militants loyal to the Islamic State, which also known as Deash terrorist in Afghanistan are mainly ex-Pakistani members, and the group receive money, guidance, and communication support from IS leaders in Syria. …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Saturday said that an ammunition cache of terrorists was discovered and confiscated in western Herat province. In a statement, the NDS said that its operatives managed to discover and confiscate an ammunition cache in the Naw Abad area. “The cache included 51 …

AT-KABUL: An Egyptian cargo plane landed in Kabul, bringing humanitarian aids and medicines. The Egypt’s Red Crescent Society called the assistance as a sign of solidarity from the people of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the “brotherly people of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”. It includes blankets, medicines, medical …

AT-KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai welcomed the peace agreement between the government and Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, asking the Taliban militants to follow Hekmatyar’s way in joining peace. He also said that any step towards the peace is good for Afghans. “The foreigners can either build Afghanistan or …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: After fierce fighting erupted on Thursday evening in the capital of central Uruzgan province, both security forces and the Taliban insurgents sustained casualties, provincial officials said on Friday. The three-hour battle took place after the militants stormed security checkpoints in the Charamgar area on the outskirts of …