Afghanistan Times

By Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay-Begam Nasim Wali Khan is the leader of Awami National Party (Wali) and wife of famous Pashtun politician late Abdul Wali Khan. Her husband was the first opposition leader in Pakistan and the founder of Awami National Party (ANP). Begam Nasim is the step mother of …

Since establishment of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Afghanistan, there is an unending debate on political systems. Public opinion makers, jurists, analysts and legislators have been discussing different political systems that could meet needs of the country and people. Most of such debates and study reports end without broad-based …

AT-KABUL: A terrorist linked with the Pakistan’s military was arrested by Afghan forces as he was attempting to flee to Pakistan in eastern Laghman province, Ministry of Interior said Tuesday. It added that the terrorist was arrested by the counter-terrorism operatives after sustaining injuries during a gun battle in Alingar …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) on Tuesday released a survey, in which 51 percent of the people interviewed have said they want parliamentary system. The survey has interviewed 34 law experts and members of parliament and received 800 individuals answer through questioner in the aspect …

AT-KABUL: A man shot his wife and mother in-law dead in the western Herat province, provincial officials said on Tuesday, an incident likely because of family problems. “Efforts are underway to detain the culprit,” provincial police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. Ahmadi did not provide more details regarding the killing …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Iranian Oil officials expressed the country’s readiness to build joint oil refineries in Afghanistan, Iranian MEHR news agency reported Tuesday. “A new storage tank will soon come to stream in South Khorasan Province saying “Birjand Oil Tank Farm with a capacity of storing 100 thousand barrels of …

AT-KABUL: Eighty-nine Taliban insurgents were killed and 15 others injured in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Tuesday in a statement. The statement added that the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the national directorate of security …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: The US army says that an American service member died as a result of wounds sustained and another received injuries during operations near Lashkarga, the provincial capital of southern Helmand province on Tuesday. Six Afghan soldiers were also wounded, US official said in a statement. “On behalf …

India has provided a little over $2 billion in economic assistance to Afghanistan in the last 15 years. India is set to deliver more arms to Afghanistan to help it fight Islamist militants, Kabul’s envoy to New Delhi said, even if Pakistan is wary of closer military cooperation between countries …

AT-KABUL: Former head of the intelligence agency has said that the chief executive Abdullah Abdullah will not work for the so-called ‘National Unity Government’ as he used to in the past two years. “Abdullah will talk to the president in three rounds,” Amrullah Saleh, who is supporting Abdullah, said, adding …