Afghanistan Times

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents on Saturday fired a rocket that landed on a house in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the northern Baghlan province, leaving at least two civilians dead and three others wounded, a provincial official said. “A rocket fired by Taliban rebels struck a house in Shahi Khil …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Since the government of Pakistan has decided to repatriate Afghan refugees, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government the other day announced that they would convene a meeting of parliamentary leaders and Pakistani government officials to prepare a strategy to handle the issue of repatriation of Afghan refugees in …

AT-KABUL: After a week-long closure, the security forces on Friday night reopened Kandahar-Lashkargah highway, a provincial official said on Saturday. “The highway is reopened for military staffers only. But efforts are underway to establish check posts in the highway in order to reopen for public too,” provincial council member for …

AT-KABUL: Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock said Saturday that the almond products would increase by 50 per cent in the northern Kunduz province this year. Agriculture experts after assessment of almond gardens said that almond harvest will be better this year in Kunduz, said MAIL in a statement. Kunduz …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: In a meeting with Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday, former and current government officials urged the leaders to implement the agreement as foundation of the National Unity Government (NUG). President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah signed a political deal in 2014 to establish the NUG. According to …

AT-KABUL: Ninety-two Taliban militants were killed across the country in the past 24 hours, the ministry of defense said Saturday in statement. The national army with the cooperation of national police and national directorate of security conducted military operations against insurgents in different areas of Paktika, Baghlan, Laghman and Faryab …

Pakistan’s government has recently put more pressure on the millions of Afghans living in the country for decades to go home apparently without any excuses. The Afghan governments and people have been facing the refugee problems as millions of our people have been living in the neighboring, regional and other …

AT-KABUL:  Around 173,000 people killed and more than 183,000 seriously wounded since the US invasion in 2001, revealed the research Costs of War. According to the research paper which focuses on the wars’ deaths and injuries, the cost in human lives and health has been enormous in the two countries. …

AT-KABUL: The Taliban insurgents have captured the Garmsir district of southern Helmand province on Friday afternoon, a reliable source who wished to remain anonymous said. The source told Pajhwok Afghan News, a local news agency, that the district was captured by the militant group. Provincial police chief said that security …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based notorious terrorist organization, trains nearly 360 terrorists yearly for anti-state activities in Afghanistan and India, said Indian investigators who grilled captured LeT operative Bahadur Ali. Ali alias Saifullah, a resident of Lahore, told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India that he saw …